Thursday, October 25, 2012

How To Design Your Personal Playing Cards

By Darell Perry


You can design your own playing cards who knew? As long as you have the basic ideas of what comprises a deck of cards, you can have new styles for these cards. It is not a requirement to make use of the usual symbols like spades, diamonds, hearts and cloves. Be creative. This should not be too hard because there are a lot of sources or inspirations that you can choose from. Just because you have to stick to a certain set of guidelines or codes that apply to playing cards does not mean that your creativity will be curbed. That makes it easy for other to use the deck.

A normal deck of card will have fifty two pieces. You can opt to make a customized deck of the same number of cards, or make one with a smaller number than that. This option depends on the kind of game you wish to use the cards for. In other games, you will need more than fifty cards to keep the game going; hence in such games you can make extra cards for the deck. Or, on top of the usual 52 cards, you could customize your deck of playing cards by adding pieces that have new symbols. You can then come up with your own card game, coming up with the mechanics and the rules.

At times customization of cards can as simple as printing letters. Choose the symbols, prepare the unique design you'd want for your customized cards, and find the right print paper. You can make cards that have your pictures, those of nature, animals, people, cars, for your business, etc. these will go on the back of the cards. Of course, in order to come up with the designs, you'd require the use of a computer A good color printer will also have to be used. If you need help on the creative aspect, you can get some ideas from the internet. There is a wealth of designs that are unique and creative on the internet. You need only pick one that will be used for your customized playing cards.

The internet is also a very good source of ideas for those who feel that they do not have a creative bone in their body and cannot come up with their own designs. You can rely on the service of a number of websites that specialize in designing playing cards. Some of these websites offer templates while others have ready made designs that you can choose from for your own deck. This is actually a fast means of having your own customized deck of playing cards. However, you may find that this is not a lot of fun, at least when compared to the other option, which is creating your own designs. Any customization is bound to be something enjoyable, engaging, and a lot of fun. When you customize your own deck of playing cards, you should also enjoy yourself.

It's a good thing that we already have the aid of technology to help us out in this endeavour. But more enjoyment and more fun can be derived from designing handmade playing cards. You need to have a creative mind, the right tools and materials, and some few friends to help you design your own playing cards.




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