Scholarship Talk

Apply to our collection of scholarship drawings!

If you have a flare for the art, you can work up your creative juices and get a chance to win a $10,000 worth of scholarship grant from GalleryCollection.com. Amply called the Annual Create-A-Greeting-Card scholarship contest, this contest is on its 2nd year already. Submissions are accepted until January 15, 2009. Students can only send in their entries once. You’re only required to do the front cover of the greeting card which can either be computer graphics, artwork or a photo. Keep in mind that the layout should be suitable for consumer or business use. All works should be all-original. Your entries should be on a horizontal 16″ x 23″ format.

This scholarship contest is open to all high school and college/ university-enrolled students of the year 2008. Home schooled students and members of the armed forces are eligible for the scholarship grant. Applicants should be from the United States, Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and should be at least 14 years of age. No purchase from GalleryCollection.com is necessary to join the contest.

The entries should be strictly original. Entries should not infringe any copyright, trademark or patent laws. Plagiarized work would be disqualified. Winners would be selected by the following criteria:

1. Overall aesthetic appeal
2. Quality of execution
3. Creativity and Originality
4. Successful incorporation of design elements
5. Appropriateness for use as a greeting card
6. Attractiveness to The Gallery Collection’s corporate and consumer customers
7. Suitability as a design in Prudent’s Gallery Collection greeting card line

Notification of winner would be on March 16, 2009 through email or snail mail. It would also be posted on the website. The student with the winning entry would receive cash scholarship worth $10,000. This would cover for tuition fees, books and other school expenses. For more information on the scholarship’s official rules, you can check this link. Good luck!