Birthday eCards and Greeting Cards

These are the latest pictures posted by users on Flickr.com and tagged with "birthday". These images are provided under a Creative Commons attribution license, so you are free to use them to create birthday ecards. The images are updated daily so be sure to check back again.

Birthdays only come once a year so do something special and create personalized birthday greeting cards. It's free and easy! And over here we've got free printable birthday cards and funny birthday e cards. Or if your feeling a bit naughty.

How-to: Click on any image and follow the instructions to build free birthday greeting cards.

Birthdays are a non religious celebration which have become widely celebrated in many parts of the world. That said, it is notable that some faiths, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, choose not to recognize birthdays as they are thought to have pagan origins along with Christmas and Easter.

In western cultures birthdays are typically celebrated with a few common traditions. The baking of birthday cakes dates back to the middle ages in England, although the tradition of hiding money and jewellery in the cake hasn't generally survived. Today the birthday cake is normally garnished with a number of candles matching the age of the recipient and a wish is granted to the birthday boy or girl if they are able to blow out all the candles in one breath. In western cultures is also true that men and women become less enthusiastic about celebrating birthdays as the years go by, and it is generally considered bad form to ask an older women how old she is.

If you want to know who you share your birthday with check out this list of famous peoples birthdays (heck, why not send them a birthday card!). Or for more fun check out this great "today in history" resource to find out what interesting things occurred on your birthday in history.

Of course greeting cards and brithday ecards are a big feature of birthdays, and Delivr queries Flickr daily to find images so you can create free birthday greeting cards from licensed images. When you create an ecard with Delivr it is actually sent embedded in the email so the recipient doesn't have to visit the site to see it. Most other sites don't do that :) We also attribute all images in the email itself so recipients can go and view the orginal image if they want to.

* all images are licensed under the Creative Commons.

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