Turning our view to the second half of the year, there are many holidays in need of new cards.
 
August 2025 Design Challenge Stock Card Creations          
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Theme: Halloween
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Requirements:  
- Create a new stock card, judges will weigh heavily on how well your wording and image fit the category choice along with great typography choices and added value.
- ONLY Big Stock cards 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:  Any Halloween category
 
Tips:
Visit all the available tips, tricks and guidelines offered on the Big Stock Creation blog page:
https://gcucommunity.com/stock-card-creations/
 
Halloween Quote Inspiration from Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Halloween%20quotes&rs=srs&b_id= BAi3QAGNtgoVAAAAAAAAAABdsIXt5yvVfH4XpLaS4ztxWH397uheNDrF_TpEuNvf4h5mKB82LbKqSKbgcbf-IHQ&source_id=3LgjYi0f
 
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Entry Deadline:  Sunday, August 31st
 
Please see more details on August's Design Challenge Stock Card Creations here on the Community blog:        
https://gcucommunity.com/2025/08/04/dash-of-inspiration-august-2025-stock-design
-challenge/

Our Halloween winners from August's Stock Card challenge are ...
 
First Place  
Alda Monteschio of Heart Tugs
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holiday-cards/halloween-cards/ghosts-goblin s/for-all-the-times-youve-1942320
 
Second Place
Ramelle Richardson of Eloquence by Ramelle
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holiday-cards/halloween-cards/from-all-of-u s/happy-halloween-cute-owls-and-1941142
 
We received a fabulous showing of entries this round, awesome to see artists new to Stock Card Creations giving it a try.
 
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.
 
Considering entering September's Design Challenge with an extended deadline of Oct 5:
https://gcucommunity.com/2025/09/05/dash-of-inspiration-september-design-challen
ge-2/
 
please note: posted from my artist forum id vs my GCU Community Manager admin id due to technical access issues