Skip to content

Design Challenge Extra

June 5, 2025

🎨 Monthly Design Challenge: Pun Fun 🧠💥

Calling all wordplay wizards and clever card crafters—this month, it’s time to Pun and Done!

The June design challenge theme is all about punny perfection. Whether your cards bring groans, giggles, or guffaws, this is your time to shine with text ideas that twist words and tickle funny bones.

Pun cards are evergreen sellers—perfect for birthdays, love, holidays, pets, food, and even sympathy (yes, punthapy is a thing). The key is a strong visual hook and a line that makes people say, “Oh no… I love it.”

(let’s avocuddle)

🛠️ Card Text Ideas by Theme:

🎂 Birthdays

  • Front: “Have a GOUDA birthday!”
    Inside: “You’re really aging to perfection.”
  • Front: “You’re one in a MELON.”
    Inside: “Hope your birthday is JUICY with fun!”
  • Front: “Turtley awesome!”
    Inside: “Slow down and enjoy your special day!”

❤️ Love & Romance

  • Front: “I lava you.” (with a cute volcano couple)
    Inside: “You make my heart erupt.”
  • Front: “You’ve stolen a pizza my heart.”
    Inside: “Extra cheese, extra love.”
  • Front: “Let’s avocuddle.”
    Inside: “We’re the perfect pear.”

🐾 Animals & Pets

  • Front: “Pawsitively the best!”
    Inside: “I’m not kitten—you’re awesome.”
  • Front: “Whale you be mine?”
    Inside: “Sea-riously.”
  • Front: “You’re claw-some.”
    Inside: “Sending purrs and high fives.”

🎄 Holidays

  • Front: “Fleece Navidad!” (with a festive sheep)
    Inside: “Hope your holidays are woolly wonderful!”
  • Front: “Frankincense and puns.”
    Inside: “It’s how I roll at Christmas.”
  • Front: “Hey ghoulfriend!”
    Inside: “Have a fang-tastic Halloween!”

😢 Sympathy / Encouragement

  • Front: “This totally STINKS.” (skunk with tissues)
    Inside: “But I’m here for you. No ifs, ands, or butts.”
  • Front: “Lettuce be sad together.”
    Inside: “I’ll bring the snacks.”

🖼️ Tips to Win with Puns:

  • Pair the pun with strong visuals – The sillier, the better.
  • Use universal humor – Keep jokes family-friendly and widely understandable.
  • Think cross-category – Puns work for birthdays and congratulations, Valentine’s and get well.
  • Keep it short – A snappy punchline makes it memorable (and easier to design around).

(this totally stinks)

Ready, set… pun! 🧀🐢🍕👻

Note: remember this challenge is being Stock Card Creations (bigstock) only.

Happy Designing!

Corrie

5 Comments leave one →
  1. amam54af72a2f17e's avatar
    amam54af72a2f17e permalink
    June 6, 2025 4:04 pm

    Hi Corrie,

    Here is a link to my entry PID#1929010

    Happy Birthday Gluten FREE card (1929010)

    Thank you!

    • amam54af72a2f17e's avatar
      amam54af72a2f17e permalink
      June 6, 2025 5:19 pm

      Oops. Sorry. I think I submitted the wrong card.

  2. slowlymellow22e0fb2920's avatar
    • slowlymellow22e0fb2920's avatar
      slowlymellow22e0fb2920 permalink
      July 10, 2025 8:09 am

      I’m sorry that link was to the wrong card. My mistake.

  3. slowlymellow22e0fb2920's avatar
    slowlymellow22e0fb2920 permalink
    July 10, 2025 8:12 am

    I’m sorry that link I submitted was to the wrong card. My mistake. I know its too late to submit anything, but this is what I intended to submit:

    PID # 1929164

    https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/humor-birthday-cards/funny-minimilist-shrimp-birthday-1929164?aid=669752

Leave a reply to amam54af72a2f17e Cancel reply