Wanted: New Cards – Congratulations, Graduation, Military
Every week we showcase a GCU category that has few or no cards. We’d like you to create at least one card for this category 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 – cards submitted for underused categories are much more likely to be approved provided they follow the Submission Guidelines. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Good luck!
Today we have multiple sub-categories lacking cards (less than 10 cards):
Occasions – Congratulations – Graduation – Trade/Vocational/Career School – Military – Academy/Navy
Occasions – Congratulations – Graduation – Trade/Vocational/Career School- Military – General Military
Occasions – Congratulations – Graduation – Trade/Vocational/Career School – Military – Boot Camp/Marine
Occasions – Congratulations – Graduation – Trade/Vocational/Career School – Military – Boot Camp/Navy
Occasions – Congratulations – Graduation – Trade/Vocational/Career School – Military – Basic Training/Marine
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Design Spotlight: Mort Originals
Our Design Spotlight falls today on Paula Mort Mortimer of Mort Originals, a GCU artist who joined in January 2015. Her lively use of color is nice!
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To create my card, first I chose four colors of small “Sticky Notes”. I designed a Neon background pattern with the stickies. Next I scattered colored paper clips on top. Office Work is seldom seen as exciting. Instead, it’s usually depicted as drab and boring. That’s why I made this card as vibrant as possible!
I myself am a Secretary/Administrative Professional. Creating Greeting Cards in my spare time is a wonderful way for me to express my artistic side. Photography is one of my passions in life and I’m thrilled to be able to turn my photographs into Cards that I can share with the “Universe”. Thank you for giving me the chance!
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If you’re a member of the Design Cuts community — membership is free if you’re not — don’t miss this great tutorial on How to Use Alternate and Extra Characters with Your Fonts. The advice goes for any font with extra characters, often flourishes, ligatures and swashes, extras or alternate characters. Scroll down past the font examples to get to the tutorial. Have fun!
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Dash of Inspiration: Cool Finds
A Dash of Inspiration, A Cup of Creativity by Doreen
Artists refine their skills and continuously improve their technique by being open to learning new tips, tricks and sometimes even expanding into a different media. This week I found some great tutorials which may be of interest to you, so I wanted to share and who knows, you may be inspired to try something new.
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PHOTOSHOP users
This is a wonderful tutorial for every photographer who has Photoshop at their fingertips. Taking a great composition of the perfect moment doesn’t always mean you have the perfect ‘greeting card ready photo’. If there are ugly distractions, poor shadow or highlight areas, a missing element – any of these can make your perfect moment image worthless as a marketable product, but, what if you could correct those minor details and create a WOW-worthy card?
Five Easy Photo Retouching Tips and Tricks
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Corel PaintShopPro users
Combine multiple images using Paintshop Pro video tutorial.
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Here are some cool tricks for the painters out there.
Tips for Making Trees with Watercolor
And I found this great list of 50 Best Blogs for Watercolor Artists I thought some of you might enjoy.
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So until next week … Learn … Create … Inspire and PROMOTE!
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Wanted: New Cards – Mother’s Day, For Egg Donor
Every Friday from now on, we’ll be showcasing a GCU category that has few or no cards. We’d like you to create at least one card for this category 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 – cards submitted for underused categories are much more likely to be approved provided they follow the Submission Guidelines. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Good luck!
Today’s category with 2 cards is:
Holidays – Mother’s Day – For Egg Donor
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Tips and Tricks: Free Glitter Patterns and St
Our friends at Spoon Graphics are offering 9 Free Glitter Patterns and Styles for Photoshop + JPG textures. One click adds to layers. Instructions provided. Have fun!
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Tips and Tricks: Make Your Own Fonts Free
Ever wanted to try your hand – no pun intended – at making your own fonts from yours or someone else’s handwriting (for example)? Make Use Of’s Everything You Need to Know About Making Your Own Font Free offers an instructive article explaining how to do just that and includes resources for more in-depth learning. Why would you wan to? Because you’d have fonts that were absolutely unique. Try it out and have fun!
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Tips and Tricks: Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials
In need of tutorials from basic function to more advanced? This archive at Digital Arts has what you need! You can also learn how to design T-shirts, vinyl stickers, etc. Exploring other parts of the sits reveals articles on art and design trends, web fonts, organizing projects, etc. Set aside a few hours and learn something new!
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Dash of Inspiration: FREEBIE Week
A Dash of Inspiration, A Cup of Creativity by Doreen
This week on Freebie Week, one of our very own, William Lloyd Cain. contacted me wanting to share some wonderful textures he’s created with our Greeting Card Universe Artists. Visit William’s card store and leave him a testimonial to thank him for his generosity.
You’ll find many wonderful textures and William’s TOU on his deviantArt pages.
Thank you for sharing, William!
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Here are some other goodies I found which might come in handy for some Father’s Day designs – as always, be sure to read and follow each contributor’s TOU:
That’s My Dad fun Pattern Set by Camxso
Banner + Scrolls Custom Shapes by Redheadstock
41 Male Silhouettes – PS Shape/Vector by All Silhouettes.com
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Just for a little fun, I thought many of you might enjoy …
5 Things Obsessive Designers Love by Creative Market
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This Fontaholic can not go without offering the new find of the week!
Niconne – new at FontSquirrel
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Still plenty of time to create and enter our Dash of Inspiration April Design Challenge!
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So until next week … Learn … Create … Inspire
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Wanted: New Cards – Cinco de Mayo, Relationship Specific
Every Friday from now on, we’ll be showcasing a GCU category that has few or no cards. We’d like you to create at least one card for this category 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 – cards submitted for underused categories are much more likely to be approved provided they follow the Submission Guidelines. Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Good luck!
Today’s categories with few cards are (the number of cards is indicated in parentheses):
Holidays – Cinco de Mayo – For Co-Worker/Colleague (8)
Holidays – Cinco de Mayo – For Secret Pal (5)
Holidays – Cinco de Mayo – For Sponsee (2)
Holidays – Cinco de Mayo – For Sponsor (3)
All the Relationship Specific sub-categories have less than 10 cards, most have 1-5:
Holidays – Cinco de Mayo – Relationship Specific (all sub-categories)
GCU Community 