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Announcing The Winner of The 2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest

The Gallery Collection is pleased to announce the winner of our 2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest. Karen Kuhlman of Aloha, Oregon is our winner, and she was so excited to win that she had this to say:

“The Gallery Collection is a very generous and fantastic company to allow students like myself to apply for these contests. Thanks so much again, the money will come in handy for those expensive college tuitions.”

All finalists from the 6th annual scholarship contest were invited to submit designs that feature Decorated Christmas Trees. So many beautiful tree designs were submitted it made our decision quite difficult!

 

Karen Kuhlman
Karen Kuhlman of Aloha, Oregon

Christmas Tree Design Contest
Karen Kuhlman’s Winning Entry

 

Announcing The Finalists of The 2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest

The Gallery Collection is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest. This exciting new design contest was open to the finalists from the Gallery Collection’s 6th Annual Create-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship contest. You can see all of the amazing submissions that we received below.

All finalists from the 6th annual scholarship contest were invited to submit designs that feature Decorated Christmas Trees. One of these beautiful designs will win a $1,000 prize for a very talented artist. If there is a design you love and want to share on a social network, just click the image you would like to share and use the URL from the new page.

Stay tuned! The winner will be announced on May 15, 2013!

The Gallery Collection Announces the 2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest

The Gallery Collection is pleased to announce our 2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest. This exciting new contest is open to the finalists from the Gallery Collection’s 6th Annual Create-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship contest.

After receiving such a large number of outstanding entries, we wanted to run an exciting new contest to give one finalist from the 6th Annual Create-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship contest a second chance to win.

All finalists from the 6th annual scholarship contest are invited to submit designs that feature Decorated Christmas Trees. The finalists are allowed to submit as many decorated tree designs as they would like in the allotted time. Submissions to the contest can be an original photo, artwork or computer graphic. The winner with the best design as chosen by a panel of judges will receive a $1,000 award.

The contest begins on March 27th and will end on April 21st. The winner will be announced on May 15, 2013, so all of our 2nd chance finalists won’t have long to wait to see if they are the winner! The finalists of the scholarship contest created such beautiful and unique designs that there is no doubt the Christmas Tree Design contest will have equally wonderful art.

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 6th Annual Create-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship contest. Everyone at the Gallery Collection looks forward to seeing the amazing decorated Christmas tree designs that are sure to be entered.

 

Design 76ECW - Merry Christmas Trimmings Card

 

2nd Chance – $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest Guidelines:

Submission Deadline: April 21, 2013

Winner will be announced: May 15, 2013

Eligibility: Must be a 6th Annual Create-A-Greeting Card Scholarship Finalist
Official Rules

Type of Holiday Card: Decorated Christmas Tree

Format: Original photo, artwork or computer graphic as a jpeg* accompanied by your name and contact information to designcontest@gallerycollection.com

Preferred Size: 7.875” x 5.5”
While the design itself would need to fit within those
dimensions, it is not necessary for you to submit in
this exact size.

Orientation: horizontal or vertical

Maximum File Size: 2 megabytes

Minimum Resolution: 300 dpi
Keep original layers in tact.

Winter Scene Cards Bring Back Happy Memories

I don’t know about you but I always have the hardest time picking out my Christmas cards every year. I personally like to go with one of the winter scenes cards we offer since they seem to be the most universally appealing to the very diverse group of people on my holiday cards list. I also have a personal preference for the personalized holiday cards we offer with winter scenes since they bring back some very happy childhood memories

I am especially fond of winter scene cards depicting a country landscape, since those greeting cards remind me of the Christmas tree farm we would trek to every winter to cut down our family Christmas tree. If you have visions of ten-year-old girl wielding an ax, don’t worry, my dad was in charge of the cutting and my sisters, brother, and I were in charge of getting the hot chocolate and apple cider from the stand set up in the farm’s barn.

Looking back, my parents were pretty brave taking their five kids on this annual adventure. We weren’t exactly the most pleasant group of people to have in the back of a station wagon (later on, a minivan) for the two hour trip from our home in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon to the farming communities brimming with Christmas tree farms. Looking at winter scenes Christmas cards really puts a smile on my face. I think I’ll send one of those greeting cards to my parents and siblings to see if they all have the same thought when they get their holiday cards in the mail this year.