Nuts and Bolts: Artist Interview Liz Van Steenburgh
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Specifically relationship specific cards like:
>> For Boyfriend
>> For Brother
>> For Cousin
>> For Daughter
>> For Girlfriend
>> For Granddaughter
>> For Grandson
>> For Nephew
>> For Niece
>> For Sister
>> For Son
>> From Pet
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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Freebie Wednesday: Spoiled Girl Font
Freebie Wednesday:
Spoiled Girl Font by Larin Type Co is a connecting script with a dancing baseline, designed to convey elegance and style. Spoiled Girl is clean, feminine and friendly. All designs will have a wonderful homemade touch with Spoiled Girl, a gorgeous script font and completely free for a limited time (just 6 more days!)
All freebies come with a Commercial License.
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Rainbow Connection: Mood Indigo
Another look at the trend color of this year, Indigo Blue:
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Nuts and Bolts: Card Title Punctuation
While your Card Title provides valuable data to search engines GCU also displays them on the site. Card Titles are in fact just that, titles. Shoppers are put off by a title that looks like a jumble of keywords and therefore proper upper and lower case lettering should be used for a consistent and professional look for shoppers.
In general, Title Case rules are as follows:
Capitalize the first word and all the main words. Do not capitalize articles (like a, an, the) or conjunctions and prepositions if they are less than four letters. However, you should capitalize them if they are the first or last words in the title.
Incorrect Title: cute green cat in a box birthday for cat lover
Correct Title: Birthday for Cat Lover a Cute Green Cat in a Box
Put as much thought into your use of capitalization as you do into choosing a font style and colors. They are all important elements into your overall design.
Here are some helpful prior posts on important elements of Card Titles:
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Wanted New Cards: Italian Birthday Cards Masculine
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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Freebie Wednesday: Simple Game Font
Freebie Wednesday:
Simple Game Font by Larin Type Co is a fresh handmade font and completely free for a limited time (just 6 more days!)
All freebies come with a Commercial License.
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Rainbow Connection: Red, White and Blue
The theme for the GCU Design Challenge for the month July is Red, White and Blue. Here is some inspiration:
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Nuts and Bolts: Custom Card Requests: Tips III
By giving it a bit of thought it’s often possible to give a new twist to an existing design that I have already created, to satisfy a request for a new card. I tend to feel slightly guilty about this as it obviously doesn’t take as long to re-work an existing idea as it does to draw something from scratch, but experience has taught me that just because I have slaved over an idea for hours it is no more likely to be a sales winner than something that hasn’t taken anywhere nearly as long.
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Wanted New Cards: Tattoo Cards
Note: Be sure to include related terms in your card metadata like: tattoo, tat, tatted, ink, inked, body art.
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function (Bigstock) or your own graphic designs.
Remember, when you’re submitting your new card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!
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