Several manufacturers of playing cards now offer blank cards on their websites, so you can make your own playing cards. These companies also offer services such as submitting personal photographs to have a custom-made deck created for their customers. The unfortunate truth about these types of custom-made cards is that they are usually very expensive.
Make Your Own Playing Cards
To save a little cash, make your own playing cards. For a smaller deck, simply use a business card template. Photos are easily transferred to the business card from your computer's picture folder. Graphics for hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades can be added as clip art, or added later with scrapbooking techniques, such as rubber stamps or stencils. You'll need 52 cards. If the cards are pictures taken from a wedding, you may want to have a lovely photo of the bride and groom on the backside of the deck, or maybe a photo of the cake, bouquet, church or perhaps a tight photo of the bride and groom holding hands.
If you plan on using a new photo for each face card, make sure you have enough. Unfortunately, printing that many photos-even small ones-is also expensive.
Use business card sheets that will enable you to separate the cards easily with little or no frayed edges. Once you have printed the cards, use a block of wax and carefully and gently run it over the front and back of the sheet. A long dinner table candle should do the trick as well. When you have finished waxing the cards, carefully separate them from the sheet. Touch up the edges with wax.
Card Making Designs
Another way to design your deck is to lay out the sheets-either use blank photo sheets or business card sheets with perforations-and then use rubber stamps to create the same design on the back of each card. The front designs can be created according to your personal likes and dislikes. Follow with a coating of wax.
If you want to transfer photos to the cards from your computer, this should be done before you make the backsides. Make a graphic box and then place the photo inside. Make sure all photos have been cut down to the identical size and that you've left enough room outside the graphic box for the number of the card and the suit.
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