As the long summer holidays drift into their final week, I'm getting round to a couple of niggly little jobs that have been cluttering up my painting/modelling corner.
One such proto-project is to get enough stuff together for Sharp Practice to run a demo game for the lads to suck them in
Anyway,
this thread reminded me I had bought some printable perforated cards from
plaincards.com to make my own Sharp Practice and Bonus Card decks.
The sheets are a good thickness of card, very close to standard playing cards, and are US letter size. They fed through my Canon Inkjet MP800 with absolutely problems at all, but I did take care to print just one side at a time, then feed them back through as I thought them being bent over for duplex printing might make the cards pop out.
plaincards have their own design software on their site, but I was too stingy for that (the demos don't allow you print) so made my own template in MS Publisher, filled it in with the text I needed, and Robert's your mother's brother!
The printed cards popped out very easily with a little back-and-forth bending along the perforations. The pack comes with a little sanding block to rub of the perforation marks left on the cards:
I was very pleased, but then realised I should go the whole hog and make boxes for each deck. So I did! I found
this nifty site which allows you to enter the dimensions of your deck of cards and then print off a pdf of the 'net' to make an appropriately sized box. Simply cut, fold and stick, and taa-daa!
I may yet make some stickers to go on the outside of the boxes to label them up. Finisher-completer characteristics to the fore! I also made a box to hold my fan-made BloodBowl cards, which are in the completed box above.
Hope that's of use to someone.