Monday, June 16, 2014

Tarot Deck Boxes!

Now, I can order custom printed boxes from the same place where I got the decks printed, but they don't account for the fact that I am sleeving my decks.  (Of COURSE I'm sleeving them.  I worked way too hard on these to not protect them.) And I desperately needed boxes.  I was unable to find a good source to get them professionally printed because companies that print custom boxes are usually doing it for commercial purposes, where they expect you to be a business owner who's ordering hundreds of these at a time.  Where I needed only one of each, that was not really practical.  At best I would pay around $180 for them.  That's a little more than I wanted to spend for four boxes.  So in the end, I made up my designs, and had them printed on cardstock at Office Depot, then cut and glued them together myself.  I gave them a coat of clear spray paint to protect them too.  I think it turned out pretty good.  I just used the card backs for the design and then added the series logo edited to match the rest on the side.  Here they are:















And look! I made one for my Shadowscapes deck too!  I just scanned in the back of the card.  The logo was harder though, because there is no clean PNG of the logo anywhere on the internet, so I had to make my own.  Spent quite a bit of time cleaning out the background and then adjusting the color to match.

1 comment:

  1. Haha, thank you! Well, you can do what I did. I do actually have this printed. I went to this site: http://www.printerstudio.com/personalized/custom-imprint-tarot-size-cards-blank-cards.html I then uploaded the images and sent it off. It costs about $15 plus shipping unless you catch a sale or something. If you're serious I may even have a 10 or 15% off coupon code lying around, because the code never changes. That's the site I used to print all my nerdy decks. Do you want me to send you the full size images?

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