Freebie Wednesday: Winter Time Watercolor Clipart Collection
Winter Time Watercolor Clipart Collection by OlliArtDesign
This clipart set includes 20 hand-drawn watercolor elements, PNG, 300dpi, with transparent background.
INCLUDED:
- 3 Penguins ~700-1300px;
- 2 Bunnies ~800-1800px;
- Deer 1309x 1992px;
- Snowman 1062x 1530px;
- Christmas tree 1378x 2157px;
- Snow ~100-1000px;
Use this design for posters, birthday cards, baby shower and much more.
Only available for another 6 days on the Hungry Jpeg site. Don’t miss out!
Comes with complete License.
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Nuts & Bolts: Composition Before & After
Like an outfit and accessories, fashion advice per Coco Chanel is to add accessories at will and then before leaving the house, remove one piece so as to not overdo it. We’ve heard it before, less is more. The same can be said for a composition of many elements and details in a design.
Note from reviewer: The ornaments appear to be floating and not attached to the tree branches. The design on the bow is busy and it would be more appealing if this were a solid color.
Before:
After:
The difference is made in the details!
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Commitment Ceremony Invitation
Wanted Cards – Commitment Ceremony Invitation
We’d like to add more choices for commitment ceremony invitations, special request for cards with a spiritual theme.
Please consider creating new cards here:
Invitations >> Civil Union / Commitment Ceremony
Depending on your design and verse:
>> Other Civil Union / Commitment Ceremony cid#13916
Or
>> Religious Civil Union / Commitment Ceremony cid#37240
Note the guidelines for Inside verse invitation text
To expedite the review of these cards, please check Fast Track Review on the card image details page when you create your card and add a Note for Reviewers like “for BLOG– Wanted Cards”. (stock cards are automatically fast tracked).
Consider using Stock Card Creations to create new cards quickly. These cards are automatically set for expedited review so no need to Fast Track. Remember, when you’re submitting your new stock 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: Free Wonderful Font Bundle
The Wonderful Font Bundle is here with a great selection of fonts and crafts. This versatile collection is perfect for creating unique crafts and really bringing your ideas to life! This bundle comes with 25 exclusive fonts and 5 graphics, ideal for your DIY projects, such as invitations, birthday cards, book covers, home decorations, mugs and so much more!
This bundle is worth $262. Don’t miss your chance on getting it for FREE and get our premium lifetime commercial license. Happy crafting! Available at the Creative Fabrica site for 2 more days, so don’t miss out!
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Wanted New Cards: Sympathy Loss of Pet Pig
Wanted Cards – Sympathy Loss of Pet Pig
A beloved pet comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Please consider creating new sympathy cards for the loss of a pet pig.
Occasions >> Sympathy >> Loss of Pet >> Pig (cid#37224)
Note: cid# is the speed entry method of adding a category to your card via category id number (cid#) vs using search terms or click and hunt. See here on the blog:
https://gcucommunity.com/2022/06/10/nuts-and-bolts-new-artist-enhancements/
Consider also new cards for a related new category:
Occasions >> Congratulations >> New Pet >> Pig (cid#37226)
Consider using Stock Card Creations to create new cards quickly. These cards are automatically set for expedited review so no need to Fast Track. Remember, when you’re submitting your new stock 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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“Merry Christmas!” is a hand-painted Watercolor Graphic Illustration Set presented by Catherine Wheel! , including Merry Christmas greeting card templates, Winter woodland forest animals, Deer, fawn, stag, bird, fox, wolf, fir, poinsettia, holly berry, frames, wreaths, arrangements, and many more!
Create warm vibrant cards and festive stationery with beautiful animals and plants. Use Amazing watercolor backgrounds for envelopes or the back side of cards This product contains many Christmas-winter elements which are still intended to be used in other forest-inspired projects or woodland animal designs! Perfect for Christmas projects, vintage postcards, children’s clothes, nursery designs, greeting cards, printables, wall art, logo, invitations, Christmas stickers, and many more.
THIS COLLECTION CONTAINS
- Christmas Card Templates. 2 PSD files (regular version + pale) + Png, jpeg
- Animals
- plants
- trees
- wreaths
- bouquets
- animal arrangements
- pre-made cards
- backgrounds
- ALPHABETS
- NUMBERS
★ INCLUDED IN THIS DOWNLOAD
- Christmas Cards templates (2x PSD files, 3 png,3 jpegs)
- 38 elements animals plants trees (approx 6000x4000px) PNG
- 14 wreaths (7000x7000px)PNG
- 11 bouquets (5000x4000px)PNG
- 13 animal arrangements (6000x5000px)PNG
- 13 Pre-made cards (4200×3000) JPEG
- 6 Watercolor backgrounds JPEG(3000x2000px)
- 27 ALPHABETS GOLD
- 27 ALPHABETS DARK GREY
- 27 ALPHABETS RED
- 10×3 Numbers Gold, Red, Dark grey
Download them for free on the Hungry Jpeg site. Remember, they are only available for free download for 6 days only. Don’t miss out! Complete License included.
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Wanted New Cards: Navrati
Wanted Cards – Navratri
A significant Hindu festival, Navratri, celebrates the victory of good over evil by goddess Durga. There are four seasonal observations of Navratri. There are many different spelling variations like Navaratri.
Please consider creating new cards here, Holidays >> Navratri
>> General Navratri
>> Ashadha Navratri
>> Chaitra Navratri
>> Magha Navratri
>> Sharada Navratri
>> Other Navratri
Sharada Navaratri is the most celebrated of the four Navaratri, named after Sharada which means autumn.
Please be sure to familiarize yourself with appropriate images, symbols, traditions, sentiments of the holiday before designing career.
Consider using Stock Card Creations to create new cards quickly. These cards are automatically set for expedited review so no need to Fast Track. Remember, when you’re submitting your new stock 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: Santa Secret Watercolors
Santa Secret Watercolors, by Shark&Croc co is freebie of the week.
What’s included:
- 9 Christmas Characters (300dpi, PNG format)
- 24 Christmas Elements (300dpi, PNG format)
- 5 Christmas Frames (300dpi, PNG format)
- 5 Christmas Wreaths (300dpi, PNG format)
- 6 Christmas Greetings Cards (300dpi, JPG format)
- 2 Christmas Patterns (300dpi, JPG format)
- JPG – Smallest at 7.0″ x 5.0″ / 2100 x 1500 px / 300 dpi.
- PNG (Transparent) – Smallest at 3.9″ x 10″ / 1181 x 3000 px / 300 dpi.
Download them for free on the Hungry Jpeg site. Remember, they are only available for free download for 6 days only. Don’t miss out! Complete License included.
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Dash of Inspiration: October 2022 STOCK Design Challenge
With the holiday season quickly approaching, we’re all in the card creating spirit, so let’s create some music themed holiday greetings this month.
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Theme: Christmas Music Theme
Requirements:
- Christmas specific image for the holiday season that is music themed along with a message that blends the season and image.
- ONLY Big Stock cards will be accepted in this challenge.
- Write your own verse, be creative with this will be extremely important in this challenge.
- The judges will be looking for professional quality text layout, typography placement and font combinations in addition to a unique and captivating message that tells the story of the stock image you choose. Your added value needs to wow the judges!
NOTE: Be sure to reference the GCU Wiki: http://www.gcuwiki.com/ip.html
Fender Musical Instruments – Guitar, Trade Dress – distinctive headstock & body shapes and distinctive elements. See: https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/images/gcu/guitar_trademark.jpg
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Entry Deadline: Monday, October 31st
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How to Enter: Post the PID (card number) and the URL (public storefront link – please WAIT for the card to be available in the public marketplace, 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.
NOTE: Submissions will appear immediately in your Private gallery as they await review. If approved, the reviewer will move them to the public gallery – they will then become ‘live’ in the marketplace within 24-hours or so just like regular submissions. Be patient and wait.
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Category:
Choose one of these two categories:
Business >> Christmas >> Industry Specific >> Music
Holidays >> Christmas >> Music / Instruments
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Rules:
- Submission must meet GCU’s Submission Guidelines and be Approved through the usual Review Cycle. Big Stock creations are automatically identified as Fast Track – please add in the Notes to Reviewer: October Design Challenge Submission here is the link to the blog post: (include THIS blog post URL)
- Only ONE card per artist per challenge.
- Submissions must be NEW, no existing designs.
- Your entry must meet the Challenge Requirements and Theme or it will not be included in the challenge.
- Big Stock Card Creations ONLY will be accepted.
- Your designs should differ from those already offered in the categories above to offer shoppers a variety of choices, not more of the same.
- No BLANK cards will be accepted.
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BLIND Judging: We hope each of you enters every month. 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’. Results will post on the Community Blog. The jury will judge the entries on the following criteria:
- How well the card meets the Challenge Requirements and Theme.
- How well the card speaks to the Category the artist chooses for the card submission.
- Creativity, Execution and Marketability. Your overall ‘added value’ determines this.
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Winners: 1st Place:
- The winning designer’s card and store will be featured on the GCU Public Blog – the blog which customers view and follow.
- As well as featured on the GCU Public Facebook Page – nearly 58,000 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 may not be featured as DOD due to GCU Home Page space restrictions. In these cases, GCU will choose a different vertically oriented card from your store to feature as DOD. Thank you for your understanding and apologies for this limitation.
- The winning card will be added to the Greeting Card Universe Design Challenge Winners Pinterest Board – currently GCU’s Pinterest Page followers: 5.36K!
- 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).
- Winning card will be included in a marketing email to over 100,000 customers!
- GCU will create a Meet the Team board for the winning artist under the Pinterest GCU account where the winning artist will be able to pin and promote her own storefront and all that makes them a unique card designer and one of GCU’s artistic community team member.
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Winning card will be posted on GCU’s Instagram with 2,000 followers and counting!
- GCU will create a Meet the Team board for the winning artist under the Pinterest GCU account where the winning artist will be able to pin and promote her own storefront and all that makes them a unique card designer and one of GCU’s artistic community team member.
- 10 free greeting card credits added to your GCU account. Apply them at checkout and they never expire.
- A Design Challenge GCU digital award for 2022!
2nd Place:
- Your submission will be Design of the Day the following week of announcing the Challenge winners (within 7-days).
EXCEPTION: Horizontal (landscape) cards may not be featured as DOD due to GCU Home Page space restrictions. In these cases, GCU will choose a different vertically oriented card from your store to feature as DOD. Thank you for your understanding and apologies for this limitation.
- Your card will be added to the Greeting Card Universe Design Challenge Winners Pinterest Board.
- Winning card will be included in a marketing email to over 100,000 customers!
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Winning card will be posted on GCU’s Instagram with 2,000 followers and counting!
- 5 free greeting card credits added to your GCU account. Apply them at checkout and they never expire.
- A Design Challenge GCU digital award for 2022!
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Tips:
- Visit all the available tips, tricks and guidelines offered on the Big Stock Creation blog page!
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Be inspired to create and learn something new!
by Doreen Erhardt – Exclusive Creations
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Nuts & Bolts: Reminder September 2022 Design Challenge
Friday is the final day to submit your entry for September’s Design Challenge!
The difference is made in the details!
GCU Community Manager
GCU Community 
