It's our first stock card challenge of the year.  A great time to try your hand at the Stock Card Creations tool to create designs speedy fast!
 
February 2025 Design Challenge          
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Theme: National Social Work Month (March)
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Requirements:  
- Create a new stock card, judges will weigh heavily on how well your words and image fit this category along with great typography choices and added value.
- ONLY Stock Cards (aka: BigStock) will be accepted in this challenge.
- The judges will be looking for professional quality text layout, typography placement and font combinations.
- Blank verse will not be considered for entry in this challenge.
- Only ONE card per artist per challenge  
- Submissions must be NEW, no existing designs
 
CATEGORY: Holidays > National & International Days Cards > National Social Work Month
(use category speed entry cid#24386)
 
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Entry Deadline: Friday, February 28th
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Please see more details on February's Design Challenge here on the Community blog:        
https://gcucommunity.com/2025/02/01/dash-of-inspiration-february-2025-stock-desi
gn-challenge/
    
See here for Stock Card Creations tips:
https://gcucommunity.com/stock-card-creations/
 
BE SURE to do a little research exploring the current issues and challenges facing the field of social work so your designs and verses resonate with the industry.

Impressed by the entries touting the commitment to the field of Social Work and just in time for March's  month of observation.  The two winning designs are:
       
First Place - Jay and Susan of Shaoff Ballanger Studios
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holidays/nationalandinternationaldays/natio nalsocialworkmonth/national-social-work-month-big-1902118
 
Second Place - Laurie Schneider
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/collections/offthecuffgreetings/national-so cial-work-month-with-1906324
 
A bonus was having so many artists entering a Stock Card Creations challenge! We hope this trend continues.
 
NEW to the Design Challenge, look for Judges' Notes as constructive feedback on your challenge submission. These will be sent to you via a review email "comment" for all challenge submission pid#s.
 
Here is March's Design Challenge:
https://gcucommunity.com/2025/03/01/dash-of-inspiration-march-design-challenge-2
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please note: posted from my artist forum id vs my GCU Community Manager admin id due to technical access issues

Thank you for this great honor! Congrats Laurie.