ok, since I was ask from several members, how I have made my personal cards... I thought I would give you a little instruction "how to make your own trading card".


1. Choose a design of an existing set, which you like or create you own design.
you will need some photoshop skills to make the design for your card or you ask somebody with photoshop skills to do it for you. now you only need to put your own photo and name into it.

2. print the design (for front and back of your card) with your printer at home (I have a HP Deskjet 5550). format should be 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. I would suggest you to use glossy photo paper.

3. to make the card thicker and more stable you can use packfiller, which you glue together, but they have this ugly grey color. I would suggest you to buy some thicker white paper-board and to cut it to the right size or clue some cheap basecards together instead.

4. if you want to make your own patch card, you need atleast 3-4 packfillers or layers of paperboard... that depends on the thickness of your patch. cut a square hole in 2-3 of the layers, where the patch should be placed.

5. glue the packfiller together, fit the patch into the hole and then glue the print of the front and back of your card to it.

6. If you want to have your card autographed, get it signed in person or through the mail.


Since I'm from Germany, I hope, it's understandable and I have used the right words to express what I mean.

If you have any questions or need some advises, feel free to send me a PM!

That's very understandable to me! Thanks for posting this! I bet it will give a lot of people a little project on the side :)

thank you so much. i saw your cards and they're awesome, im probably gonna do this too!

Awesome. I need to try and see if I can pull this off!

1. Choose a design of an existing set, which you like or create you own design.
you will need some photoshop skills to make the design for your card or you ask somebody with photoshop skills to do it for you. now you only need to put your own photo and name into it.

2. print the design (for front and back of your card) with your printer at home. format should be 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. I would suggest you to use glossy photo paper.



I've gotten into trying this finally and these parts I was curious about. Do you actually scan a design in and then use photoshop? Or how do you actually do this?

I want to do a couple of my own -- not just of me, but friends etc. I wanted to come up with a way to make these designs and create an entire set of my softball team (to the point where I'd get some see-through stickers and have them sign them and put them on the cards).

I'm figuring once I have a design set for one person, I can just insert other photos with some work -- but designing the first will be key as I want to make a complete set (and then attempt to make enough so each person on the team can have a set). Maybe, too, having "jersey" cards as well, but at first, I just want to be able to figure how to do the design! ;)

If I like a design of a card... I'm searching the internet for a scan with high resolution or I scan the card myself if I have one.

Then I try to imitate the design with photoshop. Some parts of the designs are hard to imitate, so I just cut them out of the scan, revise them and insert them into my own design.

If you need more help... send me a pm and let me know which design you like to "reproduce" and maybe I can give you a more specific help.