Fun and Free Printable Easter Greeting Cards for 2009

Easter is the highlight of the Christian calendar, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Even as the Lord rose from the dead, the world all around seems to spring back to life at this time of year. Easter is a sure sign of the spring season. What a wonderful opportunity to spread cheer to those we love with colorful and meaningful greeting cards and joyous notes.

Why not save some green this spring by making your own Easter cards, using free online printable designs? All you need is a computer, a few sheets of copy paper and an internet connection.

Check out these seven super sites for free printable Easter greeting cards. These websites are listed here in alphabetical order (by name).

123 Print Cards

123 Print Cards features two dozen colorful free printable Easter greeting cards for downloading and printing. Designs range from bright spring photographic scenes to colorful and whimsical Easter clip-art.

This website includes interactive greeting card personalization steps, as well as instructions for printing and constructing homemade Easter envelopes.

All Free Printables

All Free Printables has three different free printable Easter greeting card designs, which may be customized online with three different artistic borders. These floral Easter cards include a spring bouquet, colorful annual flowers and an old-fashioned children's Easter egg hunt. Cards may be previewed online, then printed two to a page. Printable envelopes are also available.

All Free Printables includes instructions for plastic-covered Easter cards and clever cut-out cards as well.

American Greetings

From photographic images to cartoons, American Greetings offers 64 different printable Easter greeting cards. Deeply spiritual or lighthearted and zany, the possibilities range greatly.

Users must join the website to log in and create greeting cards for Easter or any holiday. A one-month trial membership is available.

Disney's Family Fun

Disney's Family Fun features a host of free printable Easter paper crafts, including two Easter coloring cards. Users may choose a bunny and bee card or a bird and Easter basket one. These cards may be printed as simple black-and-white line drawings for coloring with crayons or markers.

Karen's Whimsy

Karen's Whimsy offers a veritable treasure trove of royalty-free Easter greeting cards and graphics. Choose from antique post cards, Bible images, Christian clip-art and Victorian Easter cards.

This website also contains countless Christian cross images, creative coloring pages and many images of Jesus Christ for Easter printing and everyday.

Mint Printables

Any Easter celebrants who enjoy cute and contemporary spring graphics may turn to Mint Printables for free printable Easter greeting cards. This website offers four bright designs with bunnies, chicks and lambs. Cards are formatted as squares, so users may have to adjust margin settings for printing.

This website also offers free printable Easter stationary, gift tags and patterns for gift bags.

Print Free

Print Free features twelve different free printable Easter greeting cards. Users design their cards online before printing. Colorful designs include Easter baskets, bunnies, jelly beans and more. Four designs are shown as simple black-and-white line art, which can be colored online or printed and colored by hand.

Matching gift wrap pages may also be printed free, so little Easter treasures and trinkets may coordinate with Easter cards.

Happy Easter!