Making a Custom after the IC has Already Been Signed

[Alceste606]

With some of the great customs I've seen on this site it's probably not right to call these customs, but I've been collecting old time baseball players on blank ICs, and decided to try and print logos and texts on the cards that have already been signed. After testing the layouts for awhile on blank cards I starting running some through my printer. I was especially scared printing on the Luke Appling and Bobby Thomson cards, but I think they came out well and look much better than blank ICs. In the future, I'm going to do it the other way around, where I make up the card and then get the sig.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56028463@N06/

[bigga]

I like them alot, great job.

[MNsportznut]

Yea, They look great !!!

[mmalpedo01]

Thats good stuff. I have been wanting to do something with mine but wouldn't even know where to start. Nice cards.

[Alceste606]

Thats good stuff. I have been wanting to do something with mine but wouldn't even know where to start. Nice cards.

Thanks, it was pretty easy.

I just created a text document in Open Office (I'm sure MS Word would also work,) changed the page length to 3X5, and the margins to 0. I put the text in headers of footers depending on where the sig originally was. For the images, I did a Google image search and inserted them into the document.

Then I printed a test card to be sure that it looks OK, and I held it up to the light with the sig, so I can see that it was going to fit. Finally, I just ran it through the printer and hoped for the best. Lucky for me my printer didn't destroy it or the ink didn't run out.