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Rainbow Connection: Timeless Teal

March 26, 2019
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Teal is a medium blue-green color, similar to cyan. Its name comes from that of a bird—the common teal —which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. It can be created by mixing blue into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or gray. The complementary color of teal is maroon.

The first recorded use of teal as a color name in English was in 1917. Wikipedia

 

 

 

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Nuts and Bolts: Cultural Symbols and Terminology

March 22, 2019
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Nuts & Bolts – Cultural Symbols and Terminology
 
When creating cards for a specific holiday, profession, religion, nationality, tradition, etc., unless you are an expert, it’s important to do a little research and make sure you’re using the correct symbols, imagery and terminology.

 

One example that we’ve covered before is for St. Patrick’s Day.  It is commonly incorrectly referred to as St. Patty’s Day (vs St. Paddy’s Day) and incorrectly used with the imagery of a four-leaf clover (vs a shamrock).  See here in Corrections for St. Patrick’s Day.

 

Here is a wonderful before and after example of a card series by GCU artist Besty Bush of Dragonfire Graphics:

 

Before:

 

After:

 

Thank you, Betsy for turning all those lucky four-leaf clovers into St. Patrick’s Day shamrocks!

 

The difference is made in the details!

 

Mindy
GCU Community Manager

 

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Wanted New Cards: 19th Birthday on the 19th in 2019.

March 21, 2019
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Wanted Cards – 19th Birthday on the 19th in 2019

Dates with special patterns and sequences are novel and somewhat auspicious or even superstitious.

Please consider creating cards for someone celebrating their 19th birthday on the 19th in the year 2019.

 

 

these cards should go here:
Birthday >> Date Specific / On this Day >> Other 

 

If you make the year custom text this card can also go here:
Birthday >> Golden Birthday >> Age / Date Specific >> Turning 19 / 19th Birthday on the 19th
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Freebie Wednesday: Marmia Font

March 20, 2019
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Freebie Wednesday:

 

Marmia Font is a bouncy hand-lettered script font and it’s free at Creative Fabrica for another 5 days so you better make sure you don’t miss out!

 

 

This product comes with a complete commercial license.

 

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Rainbow Connection: Fresh Palettes

March 19, 2019
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Explore the Fresh Palettes of Seed;

 

 

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Wanted New Cards: 1st / First Plane Ride / Airplane Trip / First-time Flyer.

March 14, 2019
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Wanted Cards – 1st / First Plane Ride / Airplane Trip / First-time Flyer
 
In the top ten of American’s greatest fears is #7 Aviophobia, the fear of flying.  At any age, someone’s very first flight can be filled with apprehension, curiosity, excitement. and yes, possibly … white-knuckled fear.
Please consider creating cards for this new category to congratulate a new flyer’s first plane ride. In addition to general cards, consider different ages, baby’s 1st flight, and gender specific cards for her and for him.

 

These cards will go here:
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Freebie Wednesday: Springbreak Font

March 13, 2019
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Freebie Wednesday:

 

Springbreak is an adorable free font (by Beck McCormick) on offer at The Hungry Jpeg this week. Only 6 days left so don’t miss out!

 

 

 

This product comes with a complete commercial license.

 

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Rainbow Connection: 2019 Wedding Color Palettes

March 12, 2019
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The Pantone Color Institute partnered with WeddingWire, a global leader in the wedding industry, to deliver aspirational, yet attainable inspiration for couples planning to wed in 2019.

Get inspired by their 2019 Wedding Color Palettes (to see all the palettes go click this link).

 

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Nuts and Bolts: Design Challenge Digital Badge

March 8, 2019
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Nuts & Bolts – Design Challenge Digital Badge

 

We’re pleased to add another new addition to GCU’s Design Challenge rewards.  The winning artists (1st and 2nd place) will both receive a Design Challenge Winner digital badge. Similar to the popular digital badges awarded to the GCU’s Founders’ Choice Award winners, this is a fun and graphic way to tout your win and do some self-promotion & boasting because well, you’re a winner and you deserve it!
This is in addition to this other new reward.

 

Be sure to enter March’s Design Challenge.

 

 

The difference is made in the details!

 

Mindy
GCU Community Manager

 

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Wanted New Cards: CNY 2020 Year of the Rat.

March 7, 2019
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Wanted Cards – CNY 2020 Year of the Rat 

 

2020 celebrates the Year of the Rat and will be celebrated on January 25th.  It’s never too early to start designing and submitting Year of the Rat cards in ample time to populate all of the varied subcategories for shoppers to choose from.


Holidays >> Chinese New Year >> 2020 / Year of the Rat

 

There are many specific subcategories in need of  CNY Year of the Rat cards:
General (20)
For Son (0)
Humor (0)
Other (0)

 

If you plan on leveraging a design to make a series, please be sure to follow the Series / Concept Review process and submit your first design with a note and await approval before creating the balance of the series.

 

Here are important tips and guidelines on CNY cards and categories worth reading if considering updating a Chinese New Year card from a prior year or different zodiac.

Please consider this new subcategory for your card’s second category under Collections >> Chinese Zodiac >> Rat 

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