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My last offering is the endlessly adorable La Corte dei Tarocchi. Despite its limited status, I decided to apply gold paint to those areas of the cards where the original artwork has gold. It took me weeks, doing just a card or two a day. They look absolutely fantastic.
WOW - AWESOME thorhammer!
I never thought about edging my trimmed Halloween before but it looks really awesome RiverRunsDeep. And the glitter, too, wow.
My Dark Angels were starting to have chipping edges so I took out my black marker..
Yeah - I did that to mine too - and the Dark Fairytale deck as well. Adds new life to them.
I decided to do an edge treatment on my 3rd edition Samhain Deck of
the Bastard ("The Red Deck"). I used Inka Gold metallic paint in "Lava
Red". I was afraid the metallic sheen would be too "blingy" for this deck,
but I love how it turned out! There is one "before" and two "after" pictures.
Ooh! I'm expecting this deck for Yule/Xmas. Good ideas...
I presently have one deck that I'd very much like to de-border, but just haven't the energy for this close intensive work anymore. Maybe next spring...(I did quite a few this summer).
Il Tarocco delle Ventrate:
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/vetrate/
As soon as I took it out of the pack, the 1st thing I thought was "those black borders have GOT to come off!" Lol. In the photo here, those black borders don't look so bad, but in real life they're kind of oppressive (to me).
The other deck which I might presently have given up on trimming is the Omegaland Tarot:
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/omegaland/
which I'd like to trim because it's too wide for me to handle comfortably - but to trim, I'll have to make a trimming stencil as the borders are not clearly defined.
I attempted dying the edges of my Barbara G Walker deck red - but - the colour bled into the cards. Something to do with cardstock being absorbent, as I've not had that problem with any other decks I've so far edged. Luckily I started with a spare card for experimentation so it's not too horrifying.