Personalized Playing Cards - Fun Christmas Gift Idea

CUSTOM PLAYING CARD DECKS FOR CHRISTMAS

Personalized items always seem extra-special for Christmas or birthdays. These unique Bicycle playing card decks make perfect gifts for any relative or friend who loves poker, euchre, bridge, blackjack or any other card game. Use the templates to easily add names, monograms and other text.

Customizable Home Bar Beer Saloon Deck Of Cards

Deer Cabin Personalized Monogram with Wood Grain Bicycle Playing Cards

Customizable Poker Room Casino Bicycle Poker Cards

Funny Man Cave with Your Name Custom Card Decks

Leopard Fur Print Animal Pattern Bicycle Card Decks

Log Cabin Personalized Faux Wood Bicycle Poker Deck

Green Camouflage Pattern Sheriff Badge Monogram Bicycle Poker Cards

Antique Red Rose Parchment Polka Dots Personalized Deck Of Cards

Steampunk Gears Octopus Kraken Monogram Poker Cards

Pretty Strawberry Cream Pattern Personalized Poker Deck

Red White Plaid Tartan Bicycle Playing Cards

Rainbow Plaid Custom Deck Of Cards

Customizable Home Bar Irish Pub Green Bicycle Poker Deck

Customizable Marijuana Cannabis Leaves Pattern Bicycle Poker Deck

Customizable Ship Captain Your Name Anchor Deck Of Cards

Funny Beer Me Custom Name Bicycle Playing Cards

 

If you're looking for a less-expensive option, you can find these same designs on classic playing cards (instead of the Bicycle brand) in our Zazzle stores HERE, HERE and HERE. For Cyber Week 2014, these classic playing cards are 70% off Friday, December 5th only until midnight, with promo code ZAZCYBERWEEK.

I hope you find the right, custom playing card deck for everyone on your Christmas list!

-MK
MK Hess Creative

All designs © MK Hess

Writer Prompt: Back to the 1800's

Lately, I've been experimenting with vintage images in my graphic designs. In my hunt for images, one of the sites I've visited the most is the Library of Congress page. Going through all the newspaper and magazine ads there, it's easy to get immersed in the culture of another time. In the world of a century or more ago, bicycles and typewriters were new and exciting. The ladies' fashions looked very uncomfortable. Pianos seemed to be hot sellers. Political opinions looked to be just as varied and heated as they are today.

What better way to learn about a society than to study it directly? From looking at the articles and the ads of that time, I've discovered that the people of the late 1800's and early 1900's loved a scandal just as much as the people of today. They loved entertainment (circuses, early movies, music). They sought cures for their ailments. And you could buy a new purse for 25 cents.

WRITING PROMPT: The Library of Congress images are a great place to start if you're looking for historical or steampunk story ideas. Browse through the newspapers, periodicals, photo collects, etc, in search of character tidbits, historical nuances to really round out your setting, or even find the inspiration for your plot in the headlines.

Here are a couple to get you started:

1. There are a lot of want ads on this page from 1898. Have your character respond to one. What happens?
2. This headline from 1907 would certainly make an exciting premise for a steampunk or retro suspense novel: Latest Discoveries Indicate that [Mars] is Peopled by a Race Superior to Mankind!

 Search the collection yourself and time travel into the past.

-MK
on Zazzle
on Amazon 

New, Bright, Trendy Pattern Phone Cases on Zazzle

NEW BRIGHT PATTERNS, PHONE CASES ON ZAZZLE

Happy New Year, everyone! For the past couple weeks, I've been making some bright patterns and adding to one of my stores, FancyCelebration. Here's a glimpse of the new patterns on phone cases, although they're available on many, many products. They range from trendy to unique to vintage. This is a collage I put together on Polyvore here:

Unique Phone Cases, FancyCelebration store on Zazzle by mkhess

Click on the picture to see all the electronics cases in my store. Here's a link to the FancyCelebration store main page, too.

My overall favorites are the octopus, the seashells and the camouflage sheriff badge. The gear octopus was the hardest to make, but it looks cool on dark blue. The seashells remind me of a sunny beach, and I wish I was there right now. And the sheriff badge I made because it vaguely reminds me of "The Walking Dead." Some designs really stand out nicely - I just made the pink lip pattern, and it looks great on black. I also like the tiger pattern and the orchid purple chevron monogram one.

I hope everyone who's affected by the bad winter weather is staying warm and finding good use for the days when you're trapped inside. We're experiencing negative temperatures and constant snowfall here. Our chickens are locked up in the barn with extra bedding. 

I haven't updated this blog for a while, because I needed a break after the holidays and because my internet is so unreliable. But I hope to add more GIMP how-to instructions and writer inspiration soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

-MK

All images copyright MK Hess, except the wood wallpaper background (see it here).