June 2026 - Stock Design Challenge - Roses

Can you smell the sweet smell of mid-year? With summer closely on our heels, many occasions like weddings, graduations, anniversaries and more are celebrated, so let’s get rolling

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Theme: Roses

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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 categories, that is well suited to the image you choose.

- ONLY Stock Card Creation cards (Big Stock) 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.

Roses are the perfect choice for June weddings, anniversaries, graduation and so much more. Research the rose to find color meanings, symbolism for various occasions and cultures.

CATEGORY: Any category that suits your image and fits the rose meaning.

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Entry Deadline: Tuesday, June 30th

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

ANNOUNCING the WINNERS of the JUNE 2026 Stock Card Challenge:

And the top two cards that came out smelling like roses are …

Jul 9th, 2026, 3:41pm

Ramelle Richardson of Eloquence by Ramelle

Second Place

Nadine Streicher of Designs by Hope

Thank you to the entering artists with your rose inspired designs.

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 July’s Christmas in July Color Trends Design Challenge here: