Freebie Wednesday: Free Fairy Tale Bundle
Creative Fabrica offers a Free Fairy Tale Bundle for a limited time.
This bundle offers a selection of 20 graphic sets from princess designs, to gnomes, mermaids and so much more! Use these unique graphics to crafts stickers, cards, invitations, decorations, wallpaper and so much more!
This collection is normally worth $105 – so don’t miss your chance on getting it for free! Our premium lifetime commercial license is included in this free download. Happy crafting!
Comes with complete License.
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Nuts & Bolts: Account Information Up to Date.
On the move? New address? Changed your email address?
Be sure to keep your Artist Account Information up to date. Especially when it comes to pay day. We have seen many returned checks as well as unaccepted Paypal payments due to artists not updating their new information in their GCU artist account.
Changes should be made here in Account Information.
The difference is made in the details!
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Thank You for Lending Your / Letting Borrow Your
Wanted Cards – Thank You for Lending Your / Letting Borrow Your
It is so very helpful to borrow something that you are in need of. Showing appreciation by returning the item and including a special thank you note will be more than well received.
Please consider creating new cards here:
Occasions >> Thank You >> Help / Support >> Lending Your / Letting Borrow Your
>> General cid#37284
>> Car cid#37290
>> Book cid#37300
>> Clothes / Clothing cid#37298
>> Lawn Mower cid#37292
>> Money cid#37302
>> Pressure Washer cid#37288
>> Snow Blower cid#37294
>> Leaf Blower cid#37296
>> Other cid#37286
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: Jolly Christmas
Jolly Christmas is a collection of free, authentic hand drawn elements and patterns for holiday season fans and winter lovers by katieromanoff_art. Perfect for branding, cards, textile design, packaging, digital products etc.
All elements are vector so you can easily get creative mixing and matching objects and elements or use included designs and patterns.
What you get:
- 100+ hand drawn textured elements (EPS10, separate high resolution PNG with transparent background)
- 12 seamless patterns (EPS10, separate high resolution PNG)
- 8 pre-made gift card designs (EPS10, separate high resolution PNG)
Only available for another 6 days on the Hungry Jpeg site. Don’t miss out!
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Dash of Inspiration: NOV 2022 Design Challenge
Welcome to the LAST Design Challenge of 2022! As we all begin to slow down creatively while our lives speed up into holiday mode, let’s have one more burst of inspiration.
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Theme: New Year
Requirements:
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Create a card for the New Year categories – IF you have created a new card that has been approved within the last 30-days, it’s eligible for this challenge. Your New Year card should be uniquely different from the typical offerings in imagery and/or message.
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Write your own verse/message, be creative and write a message that clearly speaks to your imagery, occasion and recipient.
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Blank verse will not be considered for entry in this challenge.
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Entry Deadline: Wednesday, November 30th
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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.
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Category:
Holidays > New Year’s Cards and/or any of the sub-categories
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Rules:
- Submission must meet GCU’s Submission Guidelines and be Approved through the usual Review Cycle– Fast Track your submission with this in the Notes to Reviewer: November 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, or in this challenge ONLY, approved within the last 30-days.
- Your entry must meet the Challenge Requirements and Theme or it will not be included in the challenge.
- Stock Card Creations entries will not be accepted.
- Your designs should differ from those already offered in the category of your choice to offer shoppers a variety of choices, not more of the same.
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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.
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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:
- Nuts and Bolts: How to Write Greeting Card Verse
- Dash of Inspiration: Writing Verse
- Artist Resources
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Be inspired to create and learn something new!
Doreen Erhardt / SalonOfArtGreetings & SalonOfArt
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Nuts & Bolts: Artist Interview Ramelle Richardson
One of the many perks of being a GCU Design Challenge winner is an interview. These mini-interviews are fun reads and a peek into the makings of the winning card.
Here is August 2022 Design Challenge winner, Ramelle Richardson, interview.
Congratulations to Ramelle on her winning design.
Only 3 days remain to enter October’s Stock Card only Design Challenge Stock Card Creation with a theme of Christmas Music. Do you hear what I hear? (said the night wind to the little lamb). Submit your entries by Monday, October 31st..
The difference is made in the details!
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Auction Donation Thank You
Wanted Cards – Auction Donation Thank You
We could use more cards for thanking someone for a donation to an auction. This often goes to an individual or an organization that has donated money, goods or services to be auctioned as a fundraiser.
Please consider creating new cards here:
Occasions >> Thank You >> For Your Donation >> Auction Donation cid#21794
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.
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: 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!
GCU Community 