craftgrrl | On that note (simple, cheap homemade tarot) (Reply)

red_red_lips reminded me to post about the deck of Tarot cards that I'm in the process of making. It's very cheap, but very time consuming -- but I think that this makes your cards all the more effective, since they have so much more of you in them.

Just buy a pack of blank-on-both-sides 4x6 index cards (no lines!) and draw a deck design on one side and the arcana on the other. This takes a helluva long time if you're going to draw one design on the back of each of the seventy-eight cards, and then draw the Major and Minor Arcana on the front, and then maybe color them with markers or c. pencils or laminate them with packing tape .... personally, I'd leave them naked, with no tape; they feel so much more responsive in your hands.

I suppose this could be done by wily graphic design grrls if their printers are amenable. If so, let me know -- I want to see your handiwork!!!