Nerding Out.

Lately I have been playing Magic: The Gathering card game over lunch. I picked up a play set of the common and uncommon cards from the latest series. I have made a couple of decks and picked up a fat pack to carry all my new cards. For some reason this just wasn't good enough for me. I decided to make my own boxes...

There are tons of scraps of foam board and mat board from cutting mats and backing boards for Kathy's paintings. I started by making a box out of foam board. I wasn't that happy with it. I could do better. I changed my material to mat board. First I created a box using the matboard. I then cut out a piece of brown paper to cover the box. I used artist's mounting adhesive which is basically a spray contact cement.

I sprayed both the box and paper and let it sit for a minute or two.

I started at the bottom of the box and moved up the sides.

Eventually I covered all sides of the box, wrapping the covering around the lip of the box.

I created a top to the box and added an insert to hold the cards.
Ok I have some brown boxes, they are looking pretty good but boring.
Let's add a little decoration. I took the mana symbols and grabbed some pens that were the correct colors and started with the tops.

I made six boxes this round. I have decorated 3 of them with the colors of the decks they hold. the other three are still blank, I will decorate them when I finalize more decks.

-Jason