mikekn

Last Friday complexated and I (with some much appreciated help from violet_amy) finished our playing card project and took them up to the St. Festus Fair laurel challenge.

The whole process was a lot of fun, though by the time we had decided we were going to try for it and then got half decent at the skills we'd need, we only had about a week left before the challenge. We took several short cuts along the way such as stenciling the pip cards instead of block printing them (this was done in period, but was a later technique then we were going for). We didn't finish carving four of our face cards so some images had to do double duty.

I uploaded a bunch of photos taken while we were making our set of playing cards. Our documentation is also on-line now. Sadly I forgot to get some good pictures of the completed set before we took them up to the event (where we gave them to Adhemar). But we plan to make more in the near future. We need to finish carving the blocks we did, and make some better stencils.

I'm looking forward to continuing this project, but for now I think I'll take a week or so off :)