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Partly as a result of Little Baron and Phoenix Rising using Deborah Leigh's Personal Prophesy book, which I have on order, and partly because I just like to make things, I am revamping an old Bicycle deck as an oracle.
LB mentioned this in another thread regarding revamping playing cards:
I was inspired in such a project by finding my old Bicycle deck that was too grungy to be attractive for use, but I used to play hours of solitaire with that Bicycle deck, and wanted to reconnect with my love of playing cards. I have also been making fancy bookmarks with some extra cards I bought.
I am also a quilter, and I love textiles and design and the history of textiles. I wanted to buy some elegant wrapping paper in gold and black and then use snippets of fabric and wallpaper patterns. To my shock, everybody seems to use decorated bags and fancy tissue paper instead of wrapping paper these days and I found a few things but not exactly the colours I wanted--I had to switch to scrapbooking paper.
More challenge. I still haven't gathered all the materials--still have to print a few more textiles from Japanese, Batik, Indian, and William Morris clip art I have and get my court cards scanned in from Italian fresco books.
Here's a sample of my current aim. I too don't want to overplan things. My usual approach to design is get the colour scheme and go. So that's what I'm doing. I tend to be perfectionistic to the point of freezing up so this is good for me to work this way.
The ivory and tan acanthus leaves wrapping paper will probably go on the back of the cards. The other 4 patterns will be the background for the suits, upon which I shall collage other patterns.
LB mentioned this in another thread regarding revamping playing cards:
I didn't necessarly want to plan it. Just draw, straight out, with a biro and see what came. May still do this. And the great thing is that you can buy so many sets that you needn't worry about ruining one. I am much more interested in this kind of thing. Before, I agonised about how things should be. Now, I examine every way that they 'could' be. You have me inspired again, room. I might have a little go at one of those cards at some point.
I was inspired in such a project by finding my old Bicycle deck that was too grungy to be attractive for use, but I used to play hours of solitaire with that Bicycle deck, and wanted to reconnect with my love of playing cards. I have also been making fancy bookmarks with some extra cards I bought.
I am also a quilter, and I love textiles and design and the history of textiles. I wanted to buy some elegant wrapping paper in gold and black and then use snippets of fabric and wallpaper patterns. To my shock, everybody seems to use decorated bags and fancy tissue paper instead of wrapping paper these days and I found a few things but not exactly the colours I wanted--I had to switch to scrapbooking paper.
More challenge. I still haven't gathered all the materials--still have to print a few more textiles from Japanese, Batik, Indian, and William Morris clip art I have and get my court cards scanned in from Italian fresco books.
Here's a sample of my current aim. I too don't want to overplan things. My usual approach to design is get the colour scheme and go. So that's what I'm doing. I tend to be perfectionistic to the point of freezing up so this is good for me to work this way.
The ivory and tan acanthus leaves wrapping paper will probably go on the back of the cards. The other 4 patterns will be the background for the suits, upon which I shall collage other patterns.