Free Ecards and Online Invites at Punchbowl

Punchbowl is a free ecard website that allows you to send a customized digital greeting card that arrives tucked into a virtual envelope with a postage stamp. Virtual invitations are also available for free at Punchbowl to help you party plan.

You'll find free ecards for birthdays, holidays, announcements, occasions, and any other reason you'd want to send someone a card.

Visit Punchbowl's Ecards and choose the category of ecard you'd like to send. There are cards for almost every holiday, birthday cards for every age and gender, announcements and greeting cards for occasions like graduations and wedding, ecards to express just about every feeling, and business ecards.

Once you've chosen the category, you'll see a list of ecards within that category. The ecards with the blue Free circles are the cards that are free for you to use. You can also use the drop-down menu at the top right so you can see only the free designs.

Click on the ecard you'd like to send and click the Personalize Design button to start customizing. At this point, you can choose to include a gift card or you can continue making your free ecard.

You'll then be asked if you want to send a virtual gift card along with the ecard but you can just skip this to go on to designing your ecard.

Go through the front, inside, and back of the ecard to add all your personal touches. This includes editing the text and changing the font type, size, spacing, alignment, and color. 

After you've got everything set for your card, you get to personalize the virtual envelope that it comes in. You can change the envelope liner, the rubber stamp, and even the virtual postage stamp.

When you're done customizing your Punchbowl ecard and ready to send it, you can add recipients from your email, Punchbowl address book, or a .csv or .vcf file. You can also type in a name and email address.

You'll also have the opportunity here to view a preview or save the card for later if you need to.

You'll need to register before you can send an ecard through Punchbowl. Registration is free and you can create an account or sign-in with Facebook or Google Plus.

Right before you send it you can set the email subject line and choose to be notified when the card is opened and/or send a copy of the ecard to yourself. 

Besides free ecards, Punchbowl also has an excellent party planning section on their website. You can send free online invitations for birthday parties, weddings, baby showers, and other get-togethers. There are also free save the date ecards you can send.

You can customize your invitation with a title, date, time, name of the host, phone number, location name, address, and any other party details that your guests need to know. The invitation can also be personalized with different text, colors, and more, just like the regular ecards can be.

You'll be able to include party details including polls, maps, reminders, and even message boards. You can even manage your RSVPs right there at Punchbowl.

Punchbowl also free apps available for iOS and Android that doesn't have the capability to send ecards, but it allows you to customize and send any of Punchbowls free online invitations. With the app you can even get push notifications when your guests RSVP.