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More card making updates! Finally got prints I was happy with. Applying the laminate was a bit annoying due to having to align it and avoid creases and air bubbles, it's thinner than I expected it to be. The spray adhesive is awesome stuff though

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Speaking of the spray adhesive! Basically I'm printing on card, then gluing a second layer of card onto the back. You really cannot tell the cards are made of 3 layers. This is going pretty high on my adhesive ranking list. (Acrylic cement, on the other hand... maybe I'm using it wrong)

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CW: blade Using an old school guillotine (borrowed) to cut the cards! Unfortunately this was quite difficult because the machine was designed for thicker materials, got a bunch of wrong sized cards because the initial cuts gave frayed edges :( but the machine is super cool!

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After cutting out the cards the final step is to round out the corners. It makes more of a difference than you'd think, they look much better with the rounded corners in my opinion...

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...with that, the card prototypes are complete! I have a few points I've learned here that I'll use to make modifications for the next batch I make. here is one of my cards in a prototype of my original acrylic card holder also inspired by Splatoon :)