Aw, thanks Chronata! That's high praise, indeed.
And Em, I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner but the laminate for the deck is matte, Adam sent me samples in both matte and gloss and we both agreed that the matte suited the deck much better. Oh, and if anyone has a thing about card backs like I do, I posted a peek at them over on my journal,
here. (I can't use a deck unless I like the backs, myself.)
Thank you all so much for the congrats & compliments, I'm really thrilled with how well the majors turned out, and even moreso that thanks to Adam they get to be cards already! I started painting the Fool just about a year ago, so really it's all gone rather quickly.
Though I do need to stop sitting around being proud of myself and get to work on the minors. I've done some sketches and I'm hoping to have a few paintings done by the end of the month.