Great news!  We've taken the new Stock Card Creations service off of Beta and it is officially LIVE!  
 
A few more exciting updates to share ...
 
1. We're now featuring Categories in Need of Cards on the Stock Card Creations page.  This shows GCU categories that have 0 cards and will be refreshed daily.  Don't know what kind of cards to create?  BINGO! 
 
Note:  in your submission be sure to include in your Note to Reviewers the intended category.
 
2. Soon we'll be featuring a quick reference of the Wanted: New Cards requests from the forum.  GCU will be creating at least 1 new card for each of these requests to make sure the shopper has something within the first 24 hours.
 
3. Stock Card Creations cards are selling!    Starting to sell big and starting to sell often  
 
Congratulations to these artists for growing sales on a single card ...
 
Nancy's Nook - 66  
Janet Palaggi - 78  
Corrie Kuipers - over 1,000  
 
Many other Stock Card Creations cards are garnering small and steady sales!
 
Keep up the great work!  If you have not tried it yet please do!  It is very easy, quick and a load of fun.  I've even made a few sales  
 
Here's the landing page for quick access:
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/bigstock/
 
 

Congrats to those who have been successful with Big Stock card creations. That's good news!
 
I wish I could make some, too, but I've had an awful time of it.
Mindy, is there a GCU tutorial or some helpful advice that I can access in regards to creating the Big Stock cards? I finally got around to exploring the wonderful variety of images available, and I tried to make a card, but the text boxes gave me a lot of grief.
After fiddling with it for a day, I was only able to create one card for submission. I had to redo the text over and over again until it looked good on my Preview. But the card was declined because the text did not look professional. Frustrating!
I wish we could copy the stock photos and use our own methods of applying text. The choices currently available are so limited, but getting them to work correctly is next to impossible. At least for me. Any ideas?

We just made our first one so will wait and see what the reviewers say about it.
Exciting!!!

Congrats to Nancy, Janet and Corrie.  
 
Mindy this is probably a dumb question    but what do you mean by ( the new Stock Card Creations service is off of Beta and officially LIVE!)  
 
And I'd love to see those winning designs, would that be possible?
 
Thanks Carol  

Thanks Janet.
Ah, such a sad occasion . . . but well done to you, and in just 2 sales.  
 
Carol

Quote from Ramelle_149580 on Mar 20^th, 2014, 4:41pm:

 
Hi Ramelle,
No tutorial at this point.  Yes, we realize that the text boxes can be finicky.  The more you have and the more you tinker with them the more temperamental they seem to be with alignment and placement.  They seem to act differently on different browsers.  Be sure NOT to use Internet Explorer.  We recommend Chrome or Firefox.  Worth mentioning we are not testing / supporting this on the iPad in case that's what you are using.
 
After trial and error on a handful of cards it now takes me under 10 mins to create a card.  I am very careful to look at the text alignment in the preview before I confirm the card front design and proceed to the next step.
 
We realize there are many creative limitations.  The intent is for it to be quick and easy, so intentionally there are not a lot of bells and whistles although we will likely introduce some additions in the distant future (ie: more fonts).  For those desiring more control and creativity you should create via the traditional route w/ your own images.
 
Also intentional and per our agreement with BigStock the images are to be used as is and not downloadable and manipulated by the artist.  That would be a different agreement / license.
 
I'll share that many cards have been declined for "unprofessional looking font / text" which could be many things:  font style, color, placement, alignment, etc.  This should be detailed for you in the reviewer's notes.
 
Hope this is helpful for you to make some positive progress.  Let me know if you have additional questions.

Hi Mindy,
 
Thanks.  That's ok. I understand.
 
Carol  

Have just checked on Google chrome, and the wanted categories are showing.....but not on Firefox ???