Make every email feel personal
Choose a design, write your message, personalize the font and color, then copy and paste the finished stationery into Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, or any email app that accepts formatted text. Free, and no signup required.
Email Backgrounds turns an ordinary email into a personal greeting. Browse more than 2,000 free designs for birthdays, holidays, weddings, thank-you notes, seasons, and everyday messages — no design experience required.
People look for these designs under several names — email backgrounds, email stationery, email wallpaper, or email themes — and they all mean the same thing here: a picture layout with a space where your own message goes.
Everything works by copy and paste. Open a theme, type your message, personalize the font, color, size, and alignment, then paste the finished stationery into Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, or another email service. Your recipient sees the design inside the email and does not need an account or an app.
Featured designs selected for quality, readability, and seasonal appeal.
A festive animated autumn email background featuring orange pumpkins, golden wheat stalks, colorful fall leaves, red berries, and rustic harvest decorations for Thanksgiving greetings.
An elegant animated autumn email background with pumpkins, fall flowers, colorful foliage, and gently swaying leafy branches, perfect for Thanksgiving greetings and seasonal messages.
A beautiful animated watercolor autumn email background featuring golden pumpkins, pale green gourds, colorful fall foliage, cheerful sunflowers, and traditional Thanksgiving harvest decorations.
A beautiful animated autumn email background featuring falling leaves, orange pumpkins, rustic wooden fencing, colorful foliage, and festive red berries for Thanksgiving.
A magical animated Christmas email background featuring falling snow, a cozy winter cottage, cheerful snowman, flying red cardinal, and gently flowing winter stream.
A festive animated Christmas email background featuring cheerful Santa Claus with glasses, twinkling golden lights, red poinsettias, elegant ribbons, and beautiful evergreen garlands.
Freshly added stationery for your next personal email.
A cheerful animated Thanksgiving email background with a bouncing turkey, flapping wings, colorful pumpkins, golden corn, autumn leaves, and festive harvest decorations.
A cheerful Thanksgiving email background featuring a cute pilgrim turkey, colorful pumpkins, golden corn, rustic fencing, and festive autumn harvest decorations for holiday greetings.
A beautiful autumn email background featuring colorful pumpkins, golden wheat stalks, vibrant fall foliage, red berries, and rustic harvest decorations for Thanksgiving greetings.
An elegant autumn email background featuring orange and white pumpkins, cream flowers, colorful fall foliage, and a beautiful floral border for Thanksgiving greetings.
A charming watercolor autumn email background featuring orange pumpkins, pale green gourds, golden sunflowers, colorful fall leaves, and festive red harvest berries.
A beautiful animated autumn email background featuring golden sunflowers, colorful fall leaves, rich seasonal foliage, and a warm peach backdrop for Thanksgiving greetings.
Find the right background for celebrations, holidays, seasons, or everyday notes.
Browse the gallery and open a background that fits your message.
Type your message, then adjust the font, color, size, spacing, and alignment.
Copy the completed design and paste it into Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, or another email service.
Using Microsoft Outlook? Read the free email stationery for Outlook guide.
Helpful answers about creating, copying, and sending email stationery.
Email backgrounds are decorative stationery designs with a message area. Choose a theme, type your message, personalize it, then copy the finished design into your email.
Open a theme, enter your message, select Copy, then paste the design into the message area in Gmail. You can review the email before sending it normally.
Yes. The copied stationery is designed to paste into Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, and other email services that accept formatted HTML content. Appearance can vary slightly between email apps.
Yes. Use Copy to Mobile to display a QR code, open the design on your phone, then tap Copy to Clipboard and paste it into your mobile email app.
The web version provides free email themes and fonts. Pro fonts and additional app features are available through the Email Backgrounds apps.
Yes. Guests can save data in the current browser. Sign in to sync Favorites and History with your account so they are available on other devices.
No. The recipient views the stationery inside the email and does not need to install an app or create an account.
Stationery with an e is the correct spelling for decorative writing paper and for email designs. Stationary means standing still. Both spellings will find the same free email backgrounds on this site, so do not worry if you searched for the other one.
Nothing — they are three names for the same thing. An email background, sometimes called email stationery, an email wallpaper, or an email theme, is a decorative layout with a message area you type into. Whichever term you searched for, the designs on this site are what you are looking for.
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