February 2026 - Stock Card Design Challenge - Puns

As the judges dance among all the Cloud Dancer submissions, time to put on your punny hat and make a clever funny.

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Theme: Puns

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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, unique design and added value.

- Focus creating a card for ANY category, with strong emphasis on a pun that is well suited to the image you choose.

- ONLY Stock Card Creation cards will be accepted in this challenge.

- The judges will be looking for professional quality text layout, typography placement and font combinations.

- Blank verse cards will not be considered for entry in this challenge.

- Only ONE card per artist per challenge.

CATEGORY: any category

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Entry Deadline: Saturday, February 28th

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Please see more details on February’s Stock Card Design Challenge here on the Community blog:

ANNOUNCING the WINNERS of the February 2026 Stock Card Challenge
Originally posted by Mindy GCU Community Manager: Mar 9th, 2026, 3:30pm

The puns have spoken! And the top two cards for February’s challenge are:

First Place

Lisa Charlton

Second Place

Sandra Rose Designs

So much fun to see the creative use of puns AND stock images!

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.

Please consider entering March’s Design Challenge here: