I am in the product development stage of my tarot project now. Trying to find the best laminating sheets, the paper, how to set up the print files, getting the fronts and backs to line up, and cutting them with a paper cuter. Wow this is a lot of work.

Here is a preview of my Major Arcana. These will have a bit of a grey frame around them.

A wonderful professional and beautiful job you have done Jeannie! You truly will elevate the Tarot world with these cards. I hope a good book goes with that set of cards you have created.

Truly beautiful Jeannie. But then, we always knew you were a great artist.

These are fantastic JB. Such rich imagery and colour really bring them into the realm of LIFE! Really, really beautiful! Congratulations!

Thank you friends! I lost my Internet connection for a while, I about panicked.

These cards are such traditional images I am telling people to look for interpretations and incite from the book and website learntarot.com.

Eventually I will probably write a book, but it is really not needed to use the cards. I will have some meanings on my website.

These are truly outstanding Tarot cards Jeannie.

I've been searching for a decent deck all over the web and I haven't found anything that even comes remotely close to comparing with your cards.

Those are great. You should be proud of yourself.

Your going to want a laminant with at least a 12 mil thickness. Nine is nice and everything but 12 gives good rigidity. I'd recommend a hot laminator. Cold ones work and are less expensive, but the seal isn't always as good. GBC corporation makes a good one.

10 years selling office supplies finally pays off!!

pretty cards bean. wish i could help but if my mechanic won't let me help you don't want it either i assure you. good luck on your venture.

Wow thanks. I discovered that inferior laminate is not as durable and the cards don't past the 'flip' test. My 'flip' test is where I bend them and flip them into the air. If they get a crease or do not lay flat after that, the laminate is inferior.

I think Avery's is the best I've tried and I can bend the cards and flip them into the air and they don't crease and they will lay flat afterwards. They are practically indestructible. I will probably mix some thinner and thicker laminate for some and they will flip good enough on the micro deck, because I have three boxes to use of that, but then I will probably stick to Avery.

I don't want them to be too thick either or too stiff because they will be hard to shuffle. I want them to bend. so 12 mil may be too thick.

Thanks I did not even know it came in 12 mil. I don't even know how thick Avery sheets are I can't seem to find it on the label but they have been the best yet.

They really look beautiful. It must have taken a lot of work.
Congratulations

Those are beautiful...

I would love a deck once the project is complete.

yeah as a fatter of mact

when you finish em and if you sell any, I would buy a deck from you

I've always stuck strictly to Rider Waite but I like your'uns

Thank you James! Did you visit the link to the preview of my site I left in the other thread? My site address infinitevisionstarot.com has not propagated to the web yet, but it is up. I'm just waiting for it to show.

These cards are very much similar to Rider-Waite only made from better art work. If you read Rider-Waite cards these will be easy.

JB like the hat!

Franking fantastic!! JB, I never knew you had this much talent. I did not know you had any talent, because I basically never asked.

Is the individual artwork on the cards your own original?

About lining up the front with the back: Make sure you make each card recognizable by you, and only by you, also from the back. All of a sudden you'll take out the "chance" element out those people's future who come to you to tell them what the future holds for them.

Would you like to collaborate on the book? It's about franking time I wrote something that at least one somebody other than I would want to read. Gimme please ten sentences how carot cards work (and how they don't), and gimme a page count or word count. I'll do the writing, and you'll do the illustration.

Illust franking shon. You've done a great job on these.

Beautiful choices, quited aesthetic. I would really be interested in their equivalcies to a more traditional deck. Only because I think the deck was due for a revamp.

Do you use them with traditional dealing methods and does each have traditional meaning? I sort of hope you have updated some meanings as well.

Red:

These are very traditional Rider-Waite structure and design but not exactly. They are designed for both the rank beginner and the seasoned pro who wants to enjoy the art without having to learn an entire new system.

The designs are derivative works using public domain old masters paintings. Some of the designs don't resemble any old masters work at all but have pieces of their work combined with others to make the new design. A few of the designs are only slightly altered from an original old master's work. I have kept a list of all or most of the old masters whose work I have used.

I had originally planned to do the designs on the computer and then paint them on canvas, but to do 80 paintings would take me the rest of my life, or at least 3-5 years, so I decided just to use the ones I did on the computer. Besides, some of the old master's work is extremely detailed and it would not be an easy task at all to even do them justice.

I have thought of painting a deck with this one as a guide but doing it in my own painting style and simplifying the work, leaving out a lot of the detail. That would be an entirely new deck and would probably have a lot of changes. I don't know if I will remain interested long enough to do that though.

A tarot reader eventually develops their own personal interpretations for the cards and their meanings and that includes me. The best thing to do is to start with traditional meanings and go from there.

The cards seem to 'teach' new meanings as I use them. They are like a language that is restricted to only 80 words. A card can mean several different things depending on the question and the surrounding cards.

I have invented a thing where I "melt" two cards together. That is when you draw two cards on accident at the same time or when you place one on top of another for further information. You take the meaning or energy of both cards and combine them to create a single message.

Our group would get together and practice melting two cards. It was fun. You just look at them and make up what you think they mean as a unit off the top of your head.

The five of swords is a victory, but it is an empty victory. You win but the question is was it worth the effort?

The win may have been one that was full of secret deception or unfair tactics. Sabatage and treachery may have a bearing on the battle fought and won.

This card could mean something as simple as cheating on a test or doing whatever it takes to win because you believe or have been told that the end justifies the means.

It is also about the domination of one person over another and a battle fought to establish or maintain that domination.

In my card, a man is kneeling over a woman who was killed (or injured) in this kind of battle and now he does not feel that good about it. You can imagine anything about the picture you want or put any story behind it.

Next to it, is the Rider-Waite version of the same card.