Design Contest: Going For the Gold
The Summer Olympic games begin on July 27th in London, so let’s have a sports-related contest!
Any sport, any occasion is fair game in our Design Contest: Going for the Gold.
You have until June 27 to submit an entry to the contest by posting a link to your design in the comments of this post. In the spirit of fair play, in addition to your own design, you MUST also submit a second link to a design by another artist – if that artist wins, you’ll both receive a prize!
The artist who gets the most votes will win a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate OR 5 free card credits.
On June 28th, I will post all submissions and open the voting.
Good luck and may the best artist win!
BONUS VOTES:
If you have a blog or website and make a post relating to the contest – such as highlighting one of the artists (take a cue from our Design Spotlights) or something else – I will award you a massive 10 EXTRA VOTES.
After voting opens on June 28, Pinterest users can earn extra votes by pinning nominees to a board titled Going For the Gold. I will award 1 EXTRA VOTE per pin up to a total of 10 EXTRA VOTES.
Please note: Artists who submit only their own design will be disqualified. For the purposes of this contest, you are required to submit 2 designs, yours and another artist’s.



Fantastic – looks like a fun challenge. I would love to participate with my fellow GCU artist-friends. My question:
After creating a card, can we FastTrack them, otherwise they may not be ready for the contest – and only cards that have already been designed and meet the contest guidelines can be considered.
Thanks to Everyone for such Great Passion !
Sorry, Fast Track is only for customer requests. In this case, I would allow you to put the your card design elsewhere – such as Flikr – and give a link here – but the other requirement is that you also choose a card by another artist to nominate, and that one will have to come from GCU.
Corrie
Thank you for the quick reply. I’ll put some thought into this, I may have something sports worthy. Finding an artist’s card to nominate will be fun, and should be a sport of it’s own. Good Luck and Good Sportsmanship to All.
This bright and cheery card belongs to Lisa Lorenz
http://artist.greetingcarduniverse.com/collections/sports-fitness/sailing-boating/happy-fathers-day-sailing-card-408673
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Here is one of mine …
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/congratulations-cards/wedding-marriage/beach-coastal-seaside/congratulations-wedding-for-couple-surf-boards-art-871587?aid=134086
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My Blog post is Spotlighting Lisa Lorenz …
http://sendfromsitecards.blogspot.com/
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Thank you this was fun, I cannot wait to see the other entries!
Janet Lee
My attempt:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/sports-specific-birthday-cards/swimming-diving/birthday-a-swimmer-934668?aid=180150
And one from Carolyn Grossman:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/full-sail-259737?pid=259737&gcu=41261014753&avad=55963_e2eb7adb
This beauty belongs to Heather Broster:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/congratulations-cards/sporting-event-game/gymnastics/congratulations-gymnastics-competition-gymnast-863363
And this is my take on things:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/collections/sports-fitness/other/congratulations-youre-one-tough-mudder-938556
This is the lens I have published, and am currently finishing up:
http://www.squidoo.com/greeting-card-universe-going-for-the-gold-summer-olympics-card-contest