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Nuts and Bolts: August Design Challenge Deadline

August 27, 2021

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Nuts & Bolts – August Design Challenge Deadline

 

August’s Design Challenge deadline is Tuesday, August 31st. This is a Stock Card Creations only challenge.

Theme: Retirement for Educators 

Create a brand new design for the Retirement category specific to someone in the education field:

 

  • 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  
 
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The difference is made in the details!

Mindy


GCU Community Manager


Wanted New Cards: Grandparents Day for Glamma

August 26, 2021

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Wanted Cards – Grandparents Day for Glamma


There are quite a variety of names for grandparents. Some grandparents are very particular on what they want to be called while others are happy to be called whatever their grandbaby utters even if in baby babble. 

These days a very common name for a grandma is Glamma. This is for a grandma who doesn’t want to be called or thought of as the stereotypical grandma or granny. A glamma is as fancy and glamorous as it sounds. 

Glamma can be defined as:

A glamorous grandmother, especially one who is relatively young or fashion-conscious.

These cards should go here:

Holidays >> Grandparents Day >> For Grandma / Grandmother >> For Glamma

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!

Freebie Wednesday: Chalk and Friend

August 25, 2021
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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!

 

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This product comes with a commercial license.

Nuts and Bolts: Papyrus Inside Verse Returns

August 20, 2021

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Nuts & Bolts – Papyrus Inside Verse Returns
 
Back in January of 2020 we announced that the least favorite font of perhaps all time, Papyrus, will no longer be approved for inside verse usage.
 
See the original announcement Papyrus Removal.
 
GCU has begun returning older cards using Papyrus in the inside verse to artists for edits.  Please do not be surprised when you receive a returned card for this reason.  
 
The reason will state:
The Papyrus font is no longer supported. Please change the Papyrus font in the verse for another font style. After you have chosen a new font,  please review your verse to make sure the alignment, line breaks, and spacing are ideal as these elements differ font to font. Then Resubmit for our re-review, thank you.
 
No new cards are being approved using Papyrus in the inside verse. The font is still on the site but will be removed from both artists’ and shoppers’ usage.  
 
Thank you for your cooperation!
 
 
 

The difference is made in the details!

Mindy


GCU Community Manager


Wanted New Cards: Back to School for Parents.

August 19, 2021

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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!


Freebie Wednesday: Floralista Font

August 18, 2021
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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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This product comes with a commercial license.

Nuts and Bolts: Note to Reviewer Append

August 13, 2021

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Nuts & Bolts – Note to Reviewer Append
 
One of the best ways to communicate with the review team is at the time of your submission in the Note to Reviewer field (nicknamed NTR).  Consider this an opportunity to tell the reviewer anything important about your submission that will help them with the review.
 
There are many things that this field can be used for.  See the most common examples here in a prior post: Note to Reviewer
 
A few other helpful usages of the NTR field is to:
1. share that you have two storefronts and the AID# of the other storefront
2. request a review on a FastTrack submission intended for a series – following the series concept review process
 
 
Artists can add text to this field at two times only:
1. when creating a new submission – once it is submitted you can no longer edit this field
2. when a card has been returned to you for edits
 
Important Note: It is helpful to preserve the ongoing information / conversation you’ve included in your Note to Reviewer field.  It is important in your resubmission to APPEND any notes and NOT delete the notes and start anew. 

 

The difference is made in the details!

Mindy


GCU Community Manager


Wanted New Cards: Birthday for Traveler

August 12, 2021

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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!


Freebie Wednesday: Skate Fall

August 11, 2021
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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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This product comes with a commercial license.

Wanted New Cards: Sympathy Occupation Specific

August 5, 2021

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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!