Wanted New Cards: Father’s Day Girl Dad / Boy Dad.
Be inventive and creative!
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Freebie Wednesday: Dark Side Watercolor Clipart.
Freebie Wednesday:
Dark Side Watercolor Clipart is FREE for download this week! Perfect for mysterious yet feminine designs on invitation cards, banners, prints and more!
You will receive:
- 20 watercolor elements
- 8 seamless patterns (JPEG)
- 4 seamless patterns with transparent background (PNG)
- 3 watercolor frames
- 5 bouquets
This beautiful freebie is brought to you by ma_i_vi. Only available on The Hungry Jpeg for a week!
This product comes with a complete commercial license.
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Nuts and Bolts: Artist Interview Linda Gladman.
Here are February AND March 2020 Design Challenge winner, Linda Gladman of BrightStar Cards.
Double congratulations to Linda on her winning cards.
Be sure to enter May’s Design Challenge.
GCU Community Manager
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Wanted New Cards: Birthday Son Expecting Father
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Freebie Wednesday: Gentle Whisper Floral Font.
Freebie Wednesday:
Gentle Whisper Floral is an elegant, decorative, feminine font. Use this font for wedding invitations, branding, packaging, magazines, florist shops, social media, restaurant menus, greeting cards, headers and many more.
You will recieve:
- Gentle Whisper Floral – OTF, TTF, WOFF
- Gentle Whisper Regular – OTF, TTF, WOFF
- BONUS: 15 floral elements (AI, EPS & PNG)
This beautiful freebie is brought to you by Anmark. Only available for a week on the Hungry Jpeg site.
This product comes with a complete commercial license.
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We are grateful for these shoppers, and to have our artists, printing partners, and mail delivery services all operational during this time. Thank you!
Stay home, be well, remain healthy!
GCU Community Manager
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Be inventive, be considerate and creative.
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Freebie Wednesday: Evening Dreaming Patterns.
Freebie Wednesday:
Evening Dreaming Patterns are hand drawn & digital painting floral collection. This fancy set in calm colors brings a romantic and slightly nostalgic mood to your design.
These patterns are suitable for textile and fabric design, decorative products, packaging, scrapbooking. Enjoy! 🙂
Set includes high resolution seamless patterns in 4000x4000px, 300 DPI:
- 10 x PNG with transparent background
- 10 x PSD with adjustable color fill
- 20 x JPEG “ready-to-use” files
This beautiful freebie is brought to you by Zzorna Art. Only available for a week on The Hungry Jpeg.
This product comes with a complete commercial license.
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Dash of Inspiration: May 2020 Design Challenge
Happy May, everyone! It’s been such a joy to see all the entries the last couple of challenges. This month we hope is no exception …
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Theme: Catch of the Day
Requirements:
- Use Catch of the Day as part of your card design message with supporting imagery and be creative! However you can make the phrase work, works for this challenge.
- Any category which your card speaks to.
- Blank verse will not be considered for entry in this challenge.
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Entry Deadline: Saturday, May 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:
Any category that is well-suited for your Catch of the Day themed design.
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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: May 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.
- 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 56,000 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: 2K!
- 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!
- NEW starting this month, 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.
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!
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Tips:
- Nuts and Bolts: How to Write Greeting Card Verse
- Nuts and Bolts: Writing Funny Greeting Cards
- Card Designer Checklist
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Be inspired to create and learn something new!
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