Best of 2017 - Founders' Choice Awards

With over 50,000 new cards submitted in 2017 by our talented community of artists, here are some card designs that have risen to the top to be recognized as GCU's Best of 2017. As always, the selection process is far from easy.

Enlisting a combination of popularity, sales, founder and staff input and so much more, we've arrived at these shining examples of professionalism, excellence, marketability and creativity.

The Founders' Choice Awards round out each year's Design Challenge series which is a monthly design challenge put before GCU's artist community.

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Best New Artist Kathleen Johnson of Encouragers for Christ	Best New Artist (Honorable Mention) Doug Hill of Laughing Hippo Studio	Best New Artist (Honorable Mention) Stephie McCarthy
Best Overall New Card Kathleen Johnson	Hottest Seller Ron Magnes	Hottest Seller (Honorable Mention) Mindy Pierce
Hottest Seller (Honorable Mention) Ron Magnes	Best Custom Front Card (Text) Starstock Greetings	Best Custom Front Card (Image) Trudy Wilkerson
Best Business Logo Card Ramelle Richardson	Funniest Card Lisa Crisafi	Funniest Card (Honorable Mention) Pattiann Malynn
Most Creative Stock Card Creations (BigStock) Card Doreen Erhardt	Most Creative Stock Card Creations (Honorable Mention) Stacia Gorge	Rising Star Card Alda Monteschio
Rising Star Card (Honorable Mention) Danielle Duckery	Nailed It Wanted Cards Request Card Barbara Schreiber	Nailed It Wanted Cards Request Card (Honorable Mention) Shoaff-Ballanger Studios
Best Uncommon Card Teri Nelson Kuster	Best Uncommon Card (Honorable Mention) Sandra Rose Designs	Best Design Challenge Submission Ron Magnes
Best Design Challenge Submission (Honorable Mention) Pamela Jorgensen/PamJArts	Simply Clever Colleen Kong-Savage	Simply Clever (Honorable Mention) ldg
Reviewers' Choice - Fiona Colleen Kong-Savage	Reviewers' Choice - Ella Barbara Schreiber	Reviewers' Choice - Mackenzie Ron Magnes
Reviewers' Choice - Desiree Kathleen Johnson	Reviewers' Choice - Phoebe Christie Black	Reviewers' Choice - John Betsy Bush
Reviewers' Choice - Catherine Annie Lang

Best of 2017 - Founders' Choice Awards

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