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June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank You
Jun 1^st, 2018, 5:08pm

Time to start searching for an image that really speaks (or sings) to you!

June 2018 Design Challenge
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Theme: Music Themed Thank You
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Requirements:

- ONLY Big Stock cards will be accepted in this challenge.

- MUSIC is the focus of this challenge on it’s category specific: Occasions > Thank you Cards > Music / Instruments

- 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!

- Only ONE card per artist per challenge.

- Submissions must be NEW, no existing designs.

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Category:
Occasions > Thank you Cards > Music / Instruments
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/occasions/thankyou/musicinstruments?avad=55 097_c1222eb09
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Entry Deadline: Saturday, June 30th

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Please see more details on the challenge here on the Community blog:
https://gcucommunity.com/2018/06/01/dash-of-inspiration-big-stock-only-design-ch
allenge-june-2018/

Find some good tips here from artist Betsy Bush on Design Challenges and how she selects her image:
https://gcucommunity.com/2017/08/11/nuts-and-bolts-design-challenge-tips/

And some good tips on choosing a BigStock image:
https://gcucommunity.com/2016/08/05/nuts-and-bolts-be-choosy-creative-with-stock
-cards-creation-images/

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Mindy GCU Administrator Community Manager Posts: 6537 Gender:	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #1 - Jun 19^th, 2018, 12:58pm Please note there is a 4 hour window on Thursday June 21st that Stock Card Creations will be down for planned maintenance updates: http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/forum/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1529438043 Thank you for your understanding!
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Mindy GCU Administrator Community Manager Posts: 6537 Gender:	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #2 - Jun 26^th, 2018, 6:16pm Four more days to get your Design Challenge submissions in! Excited to see what you've drummed up!
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Mindy

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Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y
Reply #3 - Jul 5^th, 2018, 3:59pm

The June votes have been seen and heard! Congratulations to the following winners:

1st Place:
Tam Fleetwood Moody
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/occasions/thankyou/musicinstruments/singing -holstein-cow-with-guitar-1529652

2nd Place:
Julia Bryant of JjB Designs
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/occasions/thankyou/musicinstruments/thank-y ou-with-trumpet-and-1529882

A fun and lively mix of instruments. Thank you to all of the artists who entered!

July's challenge has been announced:
July's Design Challenge - Red, White, and Blue
https://gcucommunity.com/2018/07/02/dash-of-inspiration-july-2018-design-challen
ge/

Time to find some red, white, and blue design inspiration!

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Betsy_145102 Gold Member artist Posts: 1359	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #4 - Jul 6^th, 2018, 5:57am Wonderful designs, Tammy and Julia! Congratulations ladies!!
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Danielle_384028 Junior Member Posts: 84	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #5 - Jul 6^th, 2018, 6:30am Congratulations, Tammy & Julia! Really great cards.
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Tammy_131374 Gold Member artist Posts: 630	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #6 - Jul 6^th, 2018, 7:27am Wow! Thanks so much GCU and thank you for the DOD feature! Also congrats Julia! Design challenges are always fun! Always interesting to see what everyone does with the same theme! Good luck to July participants!
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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 786	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #7 - Jul 6^th, 2018, 11:44am Way to go, Tammy and Julia! Congratulations!
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Laurie_139933 Gold Member artist Posts: 734	Re: June's Design Challenge - Music Themed Thank Y Reply #8 - Jul 6^th, 2018, 5:32pm Congratulations Tammy and Julia!
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