Wanted New Cards: Mother’s Day Mom of Boys / Girls
Wanted Cards – Mother’s Day Mom of Boys / Girls
Mother’s Day in the U.S. is approaching quickly! Consider cards for unique moms like a mom with all boys or a mom with all girls.
Please consider creating new cards here:
Holidays >> Mother’s Day >> Boy Mom / Mom of Boys
Holidays >> Mother’s Day >> Girl Mom / Mom of Girls
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: Sassy SVG Bundle
Looking for sassy quotes to spice up your projects? Our Freebie of the Week is here with FREE Sassy SVG Bundle!
Includes 30 cut files perfect for creating t-shirts, stickers, cards, mugs, iron ons, print cuts, etc.
This freebie is brought to you by WinterWolfeSVG! Only available on the Hungry Jpeg site for another 6 Days.
This product comes with a commercial license.
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Nuts and Bolts: Canva Restrictions
The difference is made in the details!
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Jazz & Tap Dance
Wanted Cards – Jazz & Tap Dance
Something for everyone – consider dance styles. Ballet is usually the first that comes to mind. Let’s serve and celebrate other dance styles and disciplines, like Jazz as well as Tap dancing.
Please consider creating new cards here Occasions >> Congratulations:
>> Performance / Recital >> Dance
>> Making the Team / Successful Audition >> Dance Team / Dance Company
Consider designs for both male and female dancers. Be sure to fortify your metadata for gender, see here for tips.
Here is an interesting read on top dance styles.
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”.
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: Happy Easter Paper Pack
It features 12 sets of papers and is perfect for invitations, greeting cards, product design, tags, labels and so much more! All items come in JPEG format!
This freebie is brought to you by Prettygrafik Design!
Only available on the Hungry Jpeg site for another 6 Days.
This product comes with a commercial license.
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Nuts and Bolts: Term Variation Relationships
Nuts & Bolts – Term Variation Relationships
Nicknames, terms of endearment, and regional / international names for different relationships.
Consider different cards for relationship term variations like:
– mom, mother, ma, mum, mamma
– pa, dad, daddy, papa, father, baba
The same goes for other relationship variations like Aunt, Uncle, Grandparents, etc.
These cards should go in their term specific sub-category, for example:
Birthday > For Family Relation Specific > Mom / Mother
vs
Birthday > For Family Relation Specific Birthday Cards > Mom / Mother > Mum / Mam
If the sub-category does not exist then it would go here, for example:
Birthday > For Family Relation Specific Birthday Cards > Mom / Mother > Other Mom / Mother
This is permitted as a new card submission with differentiating word variation of a like image design (as long as the variation is on the cover).
See these related posts Nuts & Bolts – Leveraging Designs and My and Our Variations.
TIPS:
– be sure to include the specific term in your metadata (card title, keywords, artist’s notes) to help searching shoppers find the perfect card
– add a note to the review team in the Notes to Reviews calling attention to the variation like “this design based on pid#xxxxxx with a variation for “mom” vs “mum”
The difference is made in the details!
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Admin Pro Day Male / Female
Wanted Cards – Admin Pro Day Male / Female
Administrative Professionals Day, originally Secretary’s Day, has come a long way in name and inclusivity of not just women as well as a broader range of administrative tasks far beyond typing memos and making coffee.
Please consider creating new cards here that are clearly male and female specific:
Holidays >> Administrative Professionals Day >> For Male Admin
or
Holidays >> Administrative Professionals Day >> For Female Admin
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 Hello Gorgeous
Hello Gorgeous is a stylish handwritten font that contains lowercase, uppercase, and symbols, and also supports multi-language. This font also comes with essential ligatures that will make your text more natural.
This beautiful freebie is brought to you by Saridezra! Only available on the Hungry Jpeg site for another 6 Days.
This product comes with a commercial license.
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Dash of Inspiration: APRIL 2022 STOCK Design Challenge
With warmer weather nearing in most of our locations, let’s ‘kick off’ another fun stock card challenge.
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Theme: Sports
Requirements:
- Choose a sports related image and pair it with a sports related message for ANY sports related category.
- 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!
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Entry Deadline: Saturday, April 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.
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:
Any of the Sports categories that fit your message. See tips for a helpful link.
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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: April 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!
- You can use this link to get a listing of all Sports categories available on GCU: https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/shopping/cb.asp?keyword=sports
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Be inspired to create and learn something new!
by Doreen Erhardt – Exclusive Creations
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Freebie Wednesday: April Fool’s Day Bundle
April Fool’s Day Bundle packed with SVGs for you!
- 70 Premium Beautiful, Creative & Original Hand-drawn SVG cut files
- April Fool Svg Files to brighten up your day and have fun Pranking
- Comes in Four Formats: SVG, DXF, PNG & EPS
This awesome freebie is brought to you by LoveSVG! Only available on the Hungry Jpeg site for a week.
This product comes with a commercial license.
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