Playing Cards + Art = Collecting

Notes about playing cards and art for collectors and all interested.

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Kickstarter Digest #3: New Playing Card Projects Waiting for Your Support

Kickstarter Digest #3: New Playing Card Projects Waiting for Your Support

New playing card projects are popping up on Kickstarter regularly. RJ Tomlinson (Titanic Playing Cards, Gettysburg Civil Unrest Playing Cards, etc.) presents Pompeii Playing Cards. His custom poker playing cards are inspired by the novel, The Last Days of Pompeii, written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Mr. Bulwer-Lytton was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He devoted his…

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DeviantART: Joker by Karen and Sara (TheUrbanTeam)

DeviantART: Joker by Karen and Sara (TheUrbanTeam)

Two artists from Mexico, Karen & Sara (TheUrbanTeam), designed this Joker. Ladies made him quite cocky. Their inspiration from anime is obvious. © Karen and Sara (TheUrbanTeam) 2013 Joker by Karen and Sara (TheUrbanTeam) (more…)

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Shuffle and Deal by Tara Gallagher

On sale June 16th!

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Artworks!

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Delirium Giveaway by Thirdway Industries on Facebook

Delirium Giveaway by Thirdway Industries on Facebook

Giovanni Meroni (Thirdway Industries), the creator of Delirium Playing Cards and current active Omnia Playing Card project on Kickstarter, has a contest on Facebook. You can win one free copy of Delirium Playing Cards. Conditions: Like the Facebook page of Thirdway Industries; Like and share (public!) this post; Comment that post (anything you want – pin code of your credit card, for example).…

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DeviantART: Playing Cards by Victor

DeviantART: Playing Cards by Victor

These are playing card artworks created by a Moldavian artist, Victor (vikiusha). They are a collection of dark macabre fantasies of the author. Only several of them happened to be on this page.

© Victor (vikiusha)

Playing Cards by Victor: The Three of Spades

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Unexpected Mes de los Muertos on Kickstarter

Unexpected Mes de los Muertos on Kickstarter

Some crazy, but joyful skeletons arranged a party on my page devoted to active Kickstarter playing card projects. I am afraid the page can accept their mood. Then it may end like THIS… or even THIS. :o

And I even don’t know how to get rid of this company. Maybe to give them money for some club :)

Dia de los Muertos Second Edition Playing Cards by Edgy Brothers on Kickstarter

Fuego Playing Cards…

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DeviantART: Three Musketeers Playing Cards by Hannah Friederichs

DeviantART: Three Musketeers Playing Cards by Hannah Friederichs

Hannah Friederichs (AgarthanGuide) was recently mentioned on pages of this site with her Daredevil playing card artworks. This post is devoted to other playing card artworks created be this American artist. These are also some type of fan art made as playing cards. The same “portrait” approach to courts.

© Hannah Friederichs 2010

Three Musketeers Playing Cards

The Three Musketeersis a historical…

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DeviantART: Daredevil Playing Cards by Hannah Friederichs

DeviantART: Daredevil Playing Cards by Hannah Friederichs

Hannah Friederichs (AgarthanGuide) is an American artist. She has created several subject playing card artworks. Themes are quite different. Styles are also quite different. The only common thing is her “portrait” approach. But one way courts aren’t always bad :)

This post is devoted to her Daredevil playing cards. These are some type of fan art made as playing cards… like her other playing card…

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Bēhance: Four Horses Playing Cards by Kerri Cordeiro

Bēhance: Four Horses Playing Cards by Kerri Cordeiro

These playing card artworks are designed by an American artist, Kerri Cordeiro. She created artworks for a full poker deck. Courts feature silhouettes of horses. Horses in queen cards have signs of femininity. The name of these playing cards forces to think that all four jacks, queens and kings should be different. Unfortunately, Kerri hasn’t revealed all court cards.

The strongest part of this…

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Preview: Poker Faces Playing Cards by Verlag um die Ecke

Preview: Poker Faces Playing Cards by Verlag um die Ecke

A small publishing company from the most western part of Germany, “Verlag um die Ecke“ (roughly translated from German into English as “Publisher around the corner“), which specializes on family magazines and different guides decided to create some side project devoted to playing cards. The team of three people – publisher, graphic designer and illustrator – launched a custom deck of playing…

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"Kickstarter: Midnight BOWL-A-RAMA Playing Cards by Randy Butterfield (Midnight Cards)" is updated #2

“Kickstarter: Midnight BOWL-A-RAMA Playing Cards by Randy Butterfield (Midnight Cards)” is updated #2

“Kickstarter: Midnight BOWL-A-RAMA Playing Cards by Randy Butterfield (Midnight Cards)” is updated #2.

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Kickstarter: The Four Seasons Playing Cards by Ace Collectable Cards

Kickstarter: The Four Seasons Playing Cards by Ace Collectable Cards

Ace Collectable Cards (Justin) designed a deck of playing cards, The Four Seasons, to celebrate the four seasons. The four suits of it represent a different time of year while the standard fifty two card deck is used to represent each week of the year. This deck will have also four Jokers representing each season and devoted to four chosen backers of this Kickstarter campaign. All elements of…

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Contest: Red and Green Gatorbacks Playing Cards from JP Playing Cards

Contest: Red and Green Gatorbacks Playing Cards from JP Playing Cards

JP Playing Cards has a new contest for photographers-collectors.

First Place will receive a Red Gatorback deck.

Second Place will receive a Green Gatorback deck. 

Rules of this photo-contest are the following:

Post a photo of any deck you own with the theme ‘RED’ – to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Post with the following phrase “My Entry to the RED GATORBACK Giveaway from @jpplayingcards…

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Preview: Blackjack Casino (Final Fantasy) Playing Cards by Laura Wilson and Fangamer.net

Preview: Blackjack Casino (Final Fantasy) Playing Cards by Laura Wilson and Fangamer.net

This Blackjack Casino Playing Card Deck is devoted to a role-playing video game (RPG), Final Fantasy VI.  The game was the sixth title in the Final Fantasy series. It is also known as Final Fantasy III for the US version. Final Fantasy VI was published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) platform in 1994. SNES is a 16-bit home video game console…

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2015 [week 14] – Upcoming Decks

2015 [week 14] – Upcoming Decks

  Slam Playing Card Deck [pre-order is active]

Magic Singh Playing Cards [will be available in April 2015]

NoMad Playing Cards [will be available in April 2015]

Dia de los Muertos Second Edition Playing Cards [will be on Kickstarter in April-May 2015]

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"Kickstarter Relaunch: Nouveau Playing Cards by Bona Fide Playing Cards" is updated #2

“Kickstarter Relaunch: Nouveau Playing Cards by Bona Fide Playing Cards” is updated #2

“Kickstarter Relaunch: Nouveau Playing Cards by Bona Fide Playing Cards” is updated #2.

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"Kickstarter: Midnight BOWL-A-RAMA Playing Cards by Randy Butterfield (Midnight Cards)" is updated

“Kickstarter: Midnight BOWL-A-RAMA Playing Cards by Randy Butterfield (Midnight Cards)” is updated

“Kickstarter: Midnight BOWL-A-RAMA Playing Cards by Randy Butterfield (Midnight Cards)” is updated.

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