Freebie Wednesday: Chalk and Friend
Chalk and Friend is a cool and versatile display font. It will look stunning on any poster flyer or print. Use this font for your designs and explore its endless possibilities. Available for free download at Creative Fabrica for the next 6 days. Don’t miss out!
This product comes with a commercial license.
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Nuts and Bolts: Papyrus Inside Verse Returns
The difference is made in the details!
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Back to School for Parents.
Wanted Cards – Back to School for Parents
Back to school is always a time for excitement and anticipation. This year will be that plus more with most students having been out of the classroom for the majority of last school year. Parents of students will surely have mixed emotions with their students returning to campus – likely ranging the spectrum of continued fear and concern and unbridled jubilation.
These cards will go here:
Occasions >> School Days >> Back to School >> For Parents of Students
We’d like you to create at least one card for these categories using the Stock Cards function or your own graphic designs. 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: Floralista Font
Floralista Font will be sure to bring all your girly and floral needs to your designs! Perfect for Procreate usage as well! Comes in OTF and TTF formats!
This fontastic freebie is brought to you by Salt & Pepper Designs! Only available for another 6 days on the Hungry Jpeg site!
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Nuts and Bolts: Note to Reviewer Append
The difference is made in the details!
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Birthday for Traveler
Wanted Cards – Birthday for Traveler
Hobby specific cards really hit a sweet spot! It reflects a personalized card just for that person’s interest. Please consider creating birthday cards for someone who is a traveler.
It could be a world traveler or one that explores their own country or stays within their state borders.
These cards should go here:
Birthdays >> Hobby Specific >> Travel / Traveler
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 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: Skate Fall
Skate Fall is a casual, fun handwritten font, created by using a brush pen. Clean and a little bit quirky, this font is the perfect fit for all of your logos, branding, social media, and crafty DIY projects.
This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! Available for free for the next 5 days at the Creative Fabrica site, don’t miss out!
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Wanted New Cards: Sympathy Occupation Specific
Wanted Cards – Sympathy Occupation Specific
Please consider creating new Sympathy cards for the loss of these public servants:
Loss of Firefighter
Loss of First Responder
Loss of K9 Unit / Police Dog
Loss of Paramedic / EMT
Loss of Police Officer / Law Enforcement Officer
These subcategories are found under this category:
Occasions >> Sympathy >> Occupation Specific
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 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: Funny Quotes Bundle vol. 2
The Funny Quotes Bundle Vol. 2 is jam-packed with 150 craft-friendly cut files in EPS, SVG, DXF, and PNG formats. Find a ton of funny, sassy quotes and puns in this freebie!
This funny freebie is brought to you by LoveSVG! Only available on the Hungry Jpeg site for a week so son’t miss out!
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Dash of Inspiration: AUGUST 2021 STOCK Design Challenge
Even though July’s challenge has not ended just yet, with GCU staff members heading off on vacation, I was asked to post next month’s Stock challenge a wee bit early.
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Theme: Retirement for Educators
Requirements:
- Choose a category from the Wanted Cards post: https://gcucommunity.com/2021/07/28/wanted-new-cards-retirement-for-educators/
- 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: Tuesday, August 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 from:
Special Education Teacher
Special Education Consultant / Advocate
Reading Specialist
School Psychologist
School Counselor
Speech Language Pathologist / SLP
Educational Audiologist
Teacher’s Aide / Teaching Assistant
Educational Assessor / Diagnostician
These new subcategories can be found here: Occasions >> Congratulations >> Retirement >> Occupation Specific
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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: August 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 2021!
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 2021!
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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!
GCU Community 