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February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day
Feb 2^nd, 2018, 5:07pm

We are off to a quick start of the year and on to our second design challenge of the year! The month is short but we know the submissions won't be short on creativity.

February 2018 Design Challenge
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Theme: First Mother’s Day
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Requirements:
- ONLY Stock Card Creations (Big Stock) cards will be accepted in this challenge

- New Mom is the focus of this challenge

- Write your own verse, be creative with a message that ties the image you choose, the recipient and the category together

- 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!

- Blank verse will not be considered for entry in this challenge

- ONE card per artist

- Submissions must be NEW, no existing designs

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Entry Deadline: Wednesday, February 28th
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Please see more details on the challenge here on the Community blog:
https://gcucommunity.com/2018/02/01/dash-of-inspiration-big-stock-only-design-ch
allenge-february-2018/

Note this helpful tip on Superscript & Ordinal Indicators (1st):
https://gcucommunity.com/2016/03/18/nuts-and-bolts-superscript-ordinal-numbers/

Let's see what you come up with for these special 1st time mommies!

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Betsy_145102 Gold Member artist Posts: 1359	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #1 - Feb 2^nd, 2018, 5:11pm I am really looking forward to this challenge as our daughter will be a new momma in the coming weeks!
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Mindy GCU Administrator Community Manager Posts: 6537 Gender:	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #2 - Feb 2^nd, 2018, 5:14pm OOOOOhh! That is very exciting, Betsy! And a source of wonderful inspiration. Quote from Betsy_145102 on Feb 2^nd, 2018, 5:11pm: I am really looking forward to this challenge as our daughter will be a new momma in the coming weeks!
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Betsy_145102 Gold Member artist Posts: 1359	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #3 - Feb 2^nd, 2018, 5:17pm This will be our first grandchild, a baby boy, and just can't wait to meet him!
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Doreen_137017 Gold Member artist Posts: 5328	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #4 - Feb 2^nd, 2018, 6:11pm Congratulations, Grandma!
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Laurie_293906 Full Member Posts: 103	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #5 - Feb 2^nd, 2018, 7:35pm Congratulations, Betsy! How wonderful for you! Best wishes to you and your family, Laurie
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Tammy_131374 Gold Member artist Posts: 630	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #6 - Feb 3^rd, 2018, 9:39pm Congrats Betsy! And aw- I wish I had read this more closely. I designed a card for it, but even though I can't enter it into the challenge, I can still use it in my store.
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Betsy_145102 Gold Member artist Posts: 1359	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #7 - Feb 4^th, 2018, 10:05am Thank you all❤!
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Mindy GCU Administrator Community Manager Posts: 6537 Gender:	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #8 - Feb 22^nd, 2018, 6:17pm Six days left to get your 1st Mother's Day submissions in for the challenge!
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Mindy

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Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day
Reply #9 - Mar 6^th, 2018, 4:23pm

With some great new cards for a 1st Mother's Day, the February Design Challenge winners are ...

1st Place:
Julia Bryant of JJBDesigns
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holiday-cards/mothers-day-cards/1st-first-m others-day/general-1st-first-mothers-day/first-mothers-day-with-collage-1513650

2nd Place:
Betsy Bush of Dragonfire Graphics
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holiday-cards/mothers-day-cards/1st-first-m others-day/relationship-specific/happy-1st-mothers-day-mama-1512546

Thank you for all of the entries. We loved seeing the new mama sentiments! Congratulations to Julia and Betsy with an additional honorable mention on the arrival of Betsy's first grandchild Cheesy

On to the next challenge:
March's Design Challenge - Beach Life
http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1520041897

With this cold weather we'll be happy to see all of your sunny beach creations!

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Laurie_139933 Gold Member artist Posts: 734	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #10 - Mar 6^th, 2018, 5:51pm Beautiful cards, Ladies! Congratulations, Laurie!
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Stacia_208183 Gold Member Posts: 822	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #11 - Mar 7^th, 2018, 2:53am Congratulations - great cards!
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Betsy_145102 Gold Member artist Posts: 1359	Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day Reply #12 - Mar 7^th, 2018, 3:07am Congratulations, Julia, for the 1st place win with such a lovely design! Thank you so much, Team GCU for choosing my Mama Bear card for 2nd place in the challenge! Thank you, Mindy for the honorable mention regarding my first grandbaby! What a joy he is!
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Mindy

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Re: February's Design Challenge - 1st Mother's Day
Reply #13 - Mar 7^th, 2018, 4:52pm

Quote from Betsy_145102 on Mar 7^th, 2018, 3:07am:

Congratulations, Julia, for the 1st place win with such a lovely design!
Thank you so much, Team GCU for choosing my Mama Bear card for 2nd place in the challenge!
Thank you, Mindy for the honorable mention regarding my first grandbaby! What a joy he is!

Our pleasure, enjoy! Cheesy

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