Nuts and Bolts: July Design Challenge Deadline

Nuts & Bolts – July Design Challenge Deadline
July’s Design Challenge deadline is tomorrow! (submissions due Saturday, July 31st).
Theme: Christmas in July
Create a brand new design the Christmas in July category featuring appropriate summertime Christmas celebrations.

The difference is made in the details!
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
Freebie Wednesday: Let’s Go Camping and Hiking Font.
FREE Let’s Go Camping & Hiking Font!
This font is excellent for your camping and hiking projects! In addition, The Let’s Go Hiking Extras font comes with 7 ready-to-go catchwords and a ton of camping-related silhouettes! We’ve also a bonus special DISCOUNT coupon inside the freebie files, make sure to redeem it!
This awesome freebie is brought to you by Anastasia Feya! Only available for 6 more days on the Hungry Jpeg site!




This product comes with a commercial license.
Wanted New Cards: Retirement for Educators
Wanted Cards – Retirement for Educators
There are many different roles of educators in the classroom, district and additional instruction and support. Please consider creating cards for these different specialty roles in education. Specifically for Retirement Congratulations, but also for Thank You and other occasions.
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
If the speciality you are looking for does not have its own subcategory then please submit your card under >> Other.
As usual, consider general designs as well as designs that are gender specific. Be sure to fortify your meta-data for gender.
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!
Rainbow Connection: Christmas in July (part 4)
Following the GCU Design Challenge – Christmas in July, I have been posting Christmas trend colors for 2021. Rounding it up with some inspiring sites.
Mc&Co Trend shared 5 key trends for Christmas 2020 and show how they will evolve, endure, decline or emerge in 2021.
From Candle Holders to Christmas tree skirts, ELLEDecor seems to be a portal to many Christmas styling ideas.
Gathered – discover your next craft project – shows us their 15 Christmas Trends for 2021

Country Living and their 87 Best Christmas Tree Ideas of 2021.

The trends for Christmasworld for 2021.

Top 5 Greeting Card Trends for 2021

And if all else fails, there is always Pinterest to see to your card design idea needs.
Nuts and Bolts: 2Q2021 Payment Discrepancy

Mindy
GCU Community Manager
Wanted New Cards: Congratulations New Electric Bike.
Wanted Cards – Congratulations New Electric Bike
As electric vehicles gain popularity and the technology gets better and cheaper, we will see more of them on the road – or sidewalk, or trails. Congratulate someone on their new electric bike.
Note: bikes need to be generic and / or abstract in nature to not infringe on trade dress or manufacturer IP.
The shopper will find these cards here:
Occasions >> Congratulations >> New Car / Vehicle >> New Electric Bike / E bike

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 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: Better Brush Font
Better Brush is a cool and bold brushed handwritten font. It can be used for various purposes such as logos, wedding invitations, headings, t-shirts, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges and so much more. Available for free on the Creative Fabrica website for 5 days. Don’t miss out!





This product comes with a commercial license.
Rainbow Connection: Christmas in July (part 3)
Following the GCU Design Challenge – Christmas in July, I will be posting Christmas trend colors for 2021 all through this month. Time to get jolly! (for more ideas visit: Brunette from Wall Street)





The difference is in the details.
Mindy
GCU Community Manager
Wanted New Cards: Blonde White Race Car Birthday
Wanted Cards – Blonde White Race Car Birthday
We have a request from a shopper:“birthday for a woman – blonde birthday race car. I am looking for a card with a blonde woman behind the wheel or standing next to a white sports car. “
Note: cars need to be generic and / or abstract in nature to not infringe on trade dress IP.
The shopper will find these cards here:Birthdays >> For Her >> General / For Her
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 card, add a little note about the intended category in your Notes to Reviewers.
Be inventive, be clever, be creative. Go for it!





