The Best Personalized Online E-Cards
Add Photos to Create Christmas, Halloween and Birthday Cards
Singing, dancing personalized photo e-cards are a fun way to add personality to an e-card for Christmas, Halloween, weddings, birthdays and other special occasions. Made popular by online e-card programs like Elf Yourself, personalized photo e-cards now come as cartoon videos and services that allow a photographer to add card frames to photos or add photos to existing pre-made e-cards.
Silly E-Cards By JibJab, Elf Yourself, and M&Ms
For those who want a singing, dancing e-card, there are many available. M&Ms sponsors an online site that allows anyone to turn themselves into a dancing M and M. Elf Yourself allows the whole family to turn themselves into dancing elves. It’s sponsored by Office Max, and it is only available during the Christmas holiday season. Looking for a personalized e-card that is retro, funky, political or just plain weird? JibJab by Sendables has cards with political message or wacky videos like office workers farting the birthday song. It’s just the thing for a co-worker.
SmileBox Offers Free E-Cards
SmileBox is a free service that allows the photographer to add words, music, photos and videos to stock e-cards. It’s possible to send, blog about, or print hard copies of the cards. The photo site offers cards from designers like Hallmark and Madison Park and has its own designs as well. The majority of the cards are art cards rather than realistic cards. Smilebox requires a free download of its software.
Time Stamp E-cards to Send on a Specific Day With Yahoo Greetings
Yahoo and American Greetings have teamed up to present Yahoo Greetings, which offers two weeks of free e-cards and often has a special of a month of free e-cards. It’s possible to create a card in advance and timestamp it to send on a certain day. Never miss a friend’s birthday again! Yahoo has dancing, singing cards and quieter photo e-cards as well.
Photo Frame Show Adds Frames to Photos
Photo Frame Show is a different twist on the photo e-card. It’s a site where photographers can add frames to their photos using photos from Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and other online sites. These photos can then become e-cards. Photo Frame Show offers a free 15 day use of its desktop application, with a possible upgrade to a professional account for $25.
My Card Maker Has Inexpensive Memberships and Access to Online Photos
My Card Maker works with photos that are already stored online on sites like Flickr. Purchase a membership for a day, a month, or an entire year. A day’s membership is $4. This makes it easy and inexpensive to send Halloween or Christmas cards to friends.
There are many different variations on the holiday and birthday e-card, and there is a large variety of web sites that offer free or inexpensive options to customize and personalize virtual cards with photos. Whether it’s a picture with a custom frame or a singing, dancing custom photo montage, personalized photo e-cards are a way to add an additional personal touch to a virtual card for a special occasion.
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