Dash of Inspiration: December Design Challenge

And the winners are …

Ron Magnes takes the BEST OF 2015 with this card:

With the 5 Honorable Mentions, listed in order, going to …

Ramelle Richardson
Julia Bryant
Stacia Gorge
Natalie Kinnear
Christi Madden

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This is the LAST Challenge of 2015, so why not make it a CELEBRATION? The December Design Challenge will be like a Holiday Party for GCU artists with an Open House Theme where each and every artist is invited to attend and BYBC! Collectively we’ll see all the talent at GCU, including all our newer artists who we hope will join in and introduce themselves!

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December Design Challenge

Theme: BEST of 2015 – BYBC (Bring Your BEST Card)

Requirements:

• Card must be Approved for the Public Marketplace and done so within the year 2015.
• Enter the card you are most proud of creating, the design which you feel is YOUR BEST WORK in 2015.
• Previous challenge cards – whether they won or not – will be accepted should you wish to choose one of those cards as your Best of 2015.

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Entry Deadline: Monday, December 28th, 2015

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How to Enter: Post the PID (card number) and the URL public storefront link (Please DO NOT post a link to your Manage Cards area) as a post in the challenge blog. We’ll forward your entry to the jury.

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Category: Any Category / Any Occasion / Any Card

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Rules:

• Entry must meet GCU’s Submission Guidelines and be in the Public Marketplace as an approved card during 2015.
• Only ONE card per artist.
• Stock Card Creations entries will not be accepted.

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BLIND Judging: Entries are submitted anonymously for judging by the GCU Challenge Jury which means that before and during the challenge, judges do not have any way of knowing what artist is behind each entry. This eliminates any and all concerns with ‘favoritism’. The jury will judge the entries on the following criteria:

• They will look for that total WOW factor.
• The level of creativity, technique, and overall marketability.

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BEST of 2015:

• The winning designer’s card and store will be featured on the GCU Public Blog with an ‘About and Interview’ with the artist – the blog which customers view and follow.
• As well as featured on the GCU Public Facebook Page – over 22,000 followers, now THAT’S exposure!
• The winning card will be Design of the Day following the announcement of the winners (within 48-hours).
  

  EXCEPTION: Horizontal (landscape) cards are often not displayed as DOD due to GCU Home Page space restrictions.

• The winning card will be added to the Greeting Card Universe Design Challenge Winners Pinterest Board – currently GCU’s Pinterest Page followers: 1.2K!
• The winning card, should the artist choose, may be referenced in a new series by the winning artist and he/she may Fast Track all cards in the new series (being sure to give the Challenge URL and winning card PID in your Notes to Reviewer for each card in this series).
• Best of Winner and Honorable Mentions will be included in a marketing email to over 100,000 customers!
• The winner will receive a BEST of 2015 digital Award which they can use in their own promotions, storefront, websites and blogs to brag about their card being chosen.
• The Best of 2015 card will be Twitted to GCU’s followers which is over 1350 and growing.

FIVE Honorable Mentions:

• Your submissions will be Design of the Day within the following two weeks of announcing the Best of 2015 winner (within 14-days).
  

  EXCEPTION: Horizontal (landscape) cards may not be DOD due to GCU Home Page space restrictions.

• Honorable Mention cards will be added to the Greeting Card Universe Design Challenge Winners Pinterest Board.
• Best of Winner and Honorable Mentions will be included in a marketing email to over 100,000 customers!
• The Honorable Mentions will receive a BEST of 2015 Honorable Mention digital Award which they can use in their own promotions, storefront, websites and blogs to brag about their card being chosen.
• The HM Best of 2015 cards will be Twitted to GCU’s followers which is over 1350 and growing.

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The card I’m most proud of creating in 2015. Doreen Erhardt©2015

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If you haven’t been entering the Dash of Inspiration Monthly Design Challenges due to time constraints prohibiting you time to create a new card, or maybe you’ve just been shy … now’s the time to join us! What could be easier than Bringing Your Best Card to this month’s challenge?