EmpyreanKnight Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 I use some cards as bookmarks. :) I may sometimes use a whole deck as a paperweight. I don't use them to scare people or pets tho. As others have suggested, they can also be good prompts in writing stories and stuff.
Jewel Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 I use extra cards (as in say an extra duplicate card) and fly cards as bookmarks quite often. I have always dreamed of decoupaging a table with tarot cards, but I cannot bring myself to doing it and I am would not do the project with "any old cheap" decks, I would want to do it with my favorites ..... and well (a) Cannot afford to get duplicates of all of them, and (b) what if something happens to my original I need a usable back up! LOL. I have also used them for writing short stories.
Starlight Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 I use extra cards (as in say an extra duplicate card) and fly cards as bookmarks quite often. I have always dreamed of decoupaging a table with tarot cards, but I cannot bring myself to doing it and I am would not do the project with "any old cheap" decks, I would want to do it with my favorites ..... and well (a) Cannot afford to get duplicates of all of them, and (b) what if something happens to my original I need a usable back up! LOL. I have also used them for writing short stories. Would you consider scanning and printing your favourites and using them to decoupage your table?
~D~ Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 If you have a deck that's done its duty (like my Ol' yellow RW deck :(... and your thinking maybe you might start a tarot business...Pick out the cards you like and make business cards out of them...HOW? On vista print you can buy business stickers with all your info on (you can design them there for cheap), then you stick one in the middle of your old tarot cards...Drop around town etc...its eye catching :)
Jewel Posted February 22, 2018 Posted February 22, 2018 Would you consider scanning and printing your favourites and using them to decoupage your table? That is a thought. I would be a lot easier to decoupage that is for sure I just worry that the colors would not be right. I do not have any high end tech equipment. But I will definitely keep that suggestion in mind, it is a great suggestion.
Walrus Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 The extra cards and title cards get used as bookmarks for me [emoji4] Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
Hemera Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 I've got two decks with some missing cards and I've been toying with an idea I read in AT some years ago. Someone said that they are leaving single cards at random places for people to find. I seem to remember that they pulled the "scary" cards out and kept the deck in their bag and then just every now and then left a card somewhere where they went. Ladies rooms, department stores, parking lots, workplace, airports, trains etc. It would be fun to think of the person who'd find such a random card. What will they think and feel? Will the card "speak" to them in some way, perhaps address a problem they have. Sounds almost like an art project, doesn't it? One could keep a notebook of where the cards were left. Maybe one could sometimes secretly wait for someone to find it and see how they react when they find the card? (In a café for example where it wouldn't be noticed).
Saturn Celeste Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 I've got two decks with some missing cards and I've been toying with an idea I read in AT some years ago. Someone said that they are leaving single cards at random places for people to find. I seem to remember that they pulled the "scary" cards out and kept the deck in their bag and then just every now and then left a card somewhere where they went. Ladies rooms, department stores, parking lots, workplace, airports, trains etc. It would be fun to think of the person who'd find such a random card. What will they think and feel? Will the card "speak" to them in some way, perhaps address a problem they have. Sounds almost like an art project, doesn't it? One could keep a notebook of where the cards were left. Maybe one could sometimes secretly wait for someone to find it and see how they react when they find the card? (In a café for example where it wouldn't be noticed). Wow! What a fabulous idea, Hemera!
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 I've been saving moon cards for years. My master plan was to bead and embellish, then have groups framed. I just realized I gave my giant box of beads to Grizabella. While I continue to seek moons I'll rethink my plan :)
Canid Posted February 24, 2018 Posted February 24, 2018 I've been saving moon cards for years. My master plan was to bead and embellish, then have groups framed. I just realized I gave my giant box of beads to Grizabella. While I continue to seek moons I'll rethink my plan :) Were they in tubes? If so, she gave them to me, & I gave them to a friend’s daughter, who is in prison. (She’s in the process of being exonerated, it was such a setup, which Nancy Grace had a huge part in). So Tiff was allowed to teach a beading class. You could make a decoupaged grouping to hang on a wall maybe?
Carojulie Posted February 25, 2018 Posted February 25, 2018 I've been saving moon cards for years. My master plan was to bead and embellish, then have groups framed. I just realized I gave my giant box of beads to Grizabella. While I continue to seek moons I'll rethink my plan :) Were they in tubes? If so, she gave them to me, & I gave them to a friend’s daughter, who is in prison. (She’s in the process of being exonerated, it was such a setup, which Nancy Grace had a huge part in). So Tiff was allowed to teach a beading class. You could make a decoupaged grouping to hang on a wall maybe? That's quite a journey these beads had, from AJ to this girl now teaching bead classes in jail ! That's cool, that they are used in that way eventually, after going from hand to hand. AJ, your idea of ornating cards with beads is interesting ! How would you have done it ?
AJ-ish/Sharyn Posted February 25, 2018 Posted February 25, 2018 AJ, your idea of ornating cards with beads is interesting ! How would you have done it ? I can't find any images remotely like what I envisioned, but in my mind they were stunning.
Carojulie Posted February 25, 2018 Posted February 25, 2018 Would you have sewn the beads on the cards with thread ? Or glue them ?
DanielJUK Posted February 26, 2018 Posted February 26, 2018 I like that some people display the cards as art, some of the publishers and artists even make large version prints for framing or hanging in a home! I think if I was doing that I would have the Star from Wild Unknown as a picture. I have used them as bookmarks :)
katrinka Posted February 26, 2018 Posted February 26, 2018 I have always dreamed of decoupaging a table with tarot cards, but I cannot bring myself to doing it and I am would not do the project with "any old cheap" decks, I would want to do it with my favorites ..... and well (a) Cannot afford to get duplicates of all of them, and (b) what if something happens to my original I need a usable back up! LOL. I haven't seen people do this in a long time, but when I was a kid, a lot of people put photographs on their glass-topped coffee tables, under the glass. You could obviously do the same with cards.
Jewel Posted February 26, 2018 Posted February 26, 2018 I have always dreamed of decoupaging a table with tarot cards, but I cannot bring myself to doing it and I am would not do the project with "any old cheap" decks, I would want to do it with my favorites ..... and well (a) Cannot afford to get duplicates of all of them, and (b) what if something happens to my original I need a usable back up! LOL. I haven't seen people do this in a long time, but when I was a kid, a lot of people put photographs on their glass-topped coffee tables, under the glass. You could obviously do the same with cards. Yeah I thought of that too. Maybe one day I will get serious about this idea and do something with it.
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