While sifting through google’s image search, I came across this very interesting jpg image of 54 custom designed playing cards from typeface creation site P22.com. I only wish the cards were in a slightly larger resolution but nonetheless, some very classy designs.
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Fontriver.com has a fairly decent playing card font for free download at their site. Nothing fancy but could prove useful for mini decks or possibly even some clever gaff creations. I especially like the fact that it includes dice as well.
Site : http://www.fontriver.com/font/playing_cards/
File: playing_cards.zip
Looks like I missed this the first time around on our previous “Stick-a-Pip” post. It appears that there is a pretty cool accompanying demo video on youtube to help fancy it. Assuming that these are undetectable, this stick-a-pip system may be a viable solution to simple gaff card creation. Watch the video below or visit the homepage.
Its great to see more and more gaff card creation guides showing up all over the net. Mrfuzz @ Instructables has posted his “Ultimate Guide to Making Gaff Cards“. Nothing that has not already been covered in the “Phatus Guide to Creating Gaff Cards” but nonetheless this proves that more and more people are making their own gaff cards using similar techniques. Link to instructable…
Sandrostiger @ Metacafe has a very cool magic trick for a great card reveal. The best part of his tutorial is that he shows you how to make a magnetic card thus opening up a huge door of possibilities for card tricks. In his tutorial he uses two cards to make the gimmick however I imagine one could even just peel a card to construct an even more convincing and inspectable gimmick. Visit the Gaff Card Resources Page for a link to peeling cards. Check out the video below.
We are now releasing a public re-distributable copy of our Gaff Card Creation Guide (aka PGCGC) in PDF format. This guide is much more extensive and detailed than any of our current public projects regarding gaff card creation. There is even a chapter involving an experimental method of applying a new finish to your gaff should you use loose the old finish in the blanking process. It also includes a section at the end that we will use to append information and advancements obtained from the community. This will be an on going, updated document with more future releases to come. Please feel free to re-distribute this document as much as you like. We only ask that you credit the Phatus Magic Community if you do.
If you would like to add information and experiments to this project, please feel free to email us or post something in the forums.
Give this a try
3 Files (all are in OpenOffice’s Calc format)
1) MiniDeck-Faces
2) MiniDeck-BlueBacks
3) MiniDeck-RedBacks
3 Steps
1) Get your favorite cardstock paper and print file 1.
2) Flip paper and print either file 2 or 3 (note: your paper may already be flipped after the printer gives it back to you).
3)Cut.
If you are feeling really creative, try applying a finish to the sheet as per the “Finish It!” chapter in the PGCGC before cutting.
If you do not have openoffice see this post.
You know round here at phatus we like ourselves some free any chance we get. Well heres 2 for the weekend. Happy Easter!
First freebee is openoffice.org – OpenOffice is a full suite of “open source” office applications. It supports many formats and best of all its FREE. The Main application of interest at the moment is OpenOffice’s “Calc”. Calc is OpenOffice’s substitute for Microsoft Excel. And quite the substitute it is.
This brings me to my next links. I say if you are gonna print some gaffs, then print some gaffs. Here are two files. Both are “Calc” files that I have created. The files have their cells set to the exact dimensions of a standard playing card and fit 6 cards per sheet.
(One with borders) and
(One without borders). We suggest a thick cardstock paper for the next steps. Simply open the first file with borders in calc, mark the bottom left of the first paper in the printer tray, and print it out. Now cut out the space(s) you would like to print in with a razor knife and straightedge. Now your blanks should embed themselves perfectly in your cutout(s). Now just Tape the back around the perimeter covering as much of the card as you like and as a bonus the face is completely exposed(use laser labels instead of tape for easy peeling). Next, load the second borderless file into Calc. Click the mouse once in the cell that you would like to insert your gaff into. 
Next From the file menu select (insert, picture, from file), then select your gaff card file. Assuming you cropped your borders good on your image, Calc will automatically scale and center the gaff image in the cell leaving you with 5 other bays available. Use em up, and print it!. Remember to make note of the “BL”(bottom left) that you marked in the first print. The cards should peel easy out of the cardstock (like a sticker), and plus you can save the cardstock as a template for your next 6. This will save you much ink in the long run on test prints.
Here is an attempt at an export to Microsoft excel (no guarantees) Borders | No Borders
Hope you enjoy this.
Note: This is new and experimental, If you have troubles with the template’s sizes or alignment please email us.
 
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