Freepix seems to have changed their TOU/Membership Agreement since GCU last reviewed it (potentially March 2017) to familiarize the review team with their terms. GCU will now be following these new Terms of Use moving forward on new submissions. For those artists who use images from this 3rd party site, these are the areas in the new terms GCU will be taking into consideration on future reviews.  
 
The following is an excerpt taken from the Freepik site here:
https://support.freepik.com/hc/en-us/articles/208978605-How-can-I-use-Freepik-s-
resources-for-commercial-purposes-
 
Can I use Freepik's resources on printed products I intend to sell?
If you want to use our resources commercially for Print on Demand (POD) products, you must make sure that they’re not the main element of the design(s) that appear on your product.
 
This means that you must use other third party designs or your own images to make the main elements of the design and use Freepik images as backgrounds or secondary elements of the composition. Our images cannot be the element with more weight in the final composition, there must be some other elements, not from Freepik, that caught the eye first.
 
If multiple Freepik images are used to create the design, then these will all be considered main elements, as they all belong to Freepik.
 
If you download any of Freepik's resources, you must make sure that the chosen designs are not used in your own design as the main element of your composition.  
 
In addition, GCU has a "no as-is" usage policy.  When using 3rd party creative, each artist is responsible for understanding and following the source's terms of usage. See GCU Community blog for related post:
https://gcucommunity.com/2016/07/22/nuts-and-bolts-no-as-is-usage-of-3rd-party-c
ontent/

Quote from Tanya_294968 on Jan 23^rd, 2019, 4:39pm:

 
There is no getting around it.  It must be part of your intentional design work to result in following their specifications:
This means that you must use other third party designs or your own images to make the main elements of the design and use Freepik images as backgrounds or secondary elements of the composition. Our images cannot be the element with more weight in the final composition, there must be some other elements, not from Freepik, that caught the eye first.  
 
Adding larger text alone does not meet Freepix requirements nor would it meet GCU's "no as-is" usage policy.

Hi Tanya -
 
When you look at the Freepix link Mindy provided, there is a red crab shown being used in the 2nd of their examples where the crab is paired with other beach items and then a message ...
 
THAT is what GCU will accept and what Freepix requires with licensing. In other words, combining one of their images and a message IS NOT enough for their license, nor does it fit GCU's 3rd party no as-is. As I understand it, for artists to meet BOTH Freepix and GCU requirements, a Freepix image is ONLY ONE of many elements in the design.
 
So ask yourself, if you took the Freepix or other 3rd party graphic element out of the design, what would the visual main focal point be? If it's just a border or words or a background, then it won't fly with GCU and it's not following Freepix license.