{"id":4382,"date":"2013-05-15T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2025-05-15T02:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:38:43","slug":"announcing-winner-2nd-chance-1000-christmas-tree-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/create-a-greeting-card-scholarship-contest\/announcing-winner-2nd-chance-1000-christmas-tree-design-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing The Winner of The 2nd Chance \u2013 $1,000 Christmas Tree Design Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gallery Collection is pleased to announce the winner of our 2nd Chance \u2013 $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:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><figure id=\"attachment_4387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4387\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Karen-Kuhlman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4387\" alt=\"Karen Kuhlman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Karen-Kuhlman.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Karen-Kuhlman.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Karen-Kuhlman-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b>Karen Kuhlman of Aloha, Oregon<\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_4390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4390\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/img072kuhlman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4390\" alt=\"Christmas Tree Design Contest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/img072kuhlman-715x1024.jpg\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/img072kuhlman-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/img072kuhlman-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/img072kuhlman.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b>Karen Kuhlman&#8217;s Winning Entry<\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gallery Collection is pleased to announce the winner of our 2nd Chance \u2013 $1,000 Christmas Tree Design&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1313,8],"tags":[180,431,432,433,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-4382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community-and-engagement","7":"category-contests","8":"category-create-a-greeting-card-scholarship-contest","9":"tag-christmas-tree","10":"tag-431","11":"tag-design-contest","12":"tag-christmas-tree-design-contest","13":"tag-decorated-christmas-trees","14":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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