Guide

Guidelines for making gospel interpretation cards

Instructions for making cards for painting

1) Open and print the .xls tables in Excel or LibreOffice.

These are fronts: front 1 of 3.xls, front 2 of 3.xls, front 3 of 3.xls

and back pages: back 1 of 3.xls, back 2 of 3.xls, back 3 of 3.xls

There is a Czech and English version available, you have to go to the right folder

2.a) Paint with color. Paints well with Coreal Basic, viscous colors. I mixed these still with tempera colors, the colors were enough for me: black, white, red, blue and yellow, with which I had all the shades I needed. If I needed a lighter shade, I added some corn starch to the white. Otherwise, the colors are quite watery and the paper distorts when painting and moistening. I starved it a bit. It's good to use a palette, but if you don't, you can take a piece of aluminum foil and mix the colors. But the palette is priceless. There are many details to cuddle with. The whole thing can be colored in 14 days, depending on how much time you are willing to spend on it.

2.b) You can also paint using a painting program, but you won't have soft color transitions there, which probably won't be. Depends on you

Color print

If you want to print already created images in color, you need to open them in a painting program and crop each card, save it, and paste it into the program in which you print it.

Print the empty.xls file with a blank card template and compare what you are printing to fit this page, or simply create cards of a different size to your liking.

Cutting and laminating

Capture each card individually, which is the simplest, but beware, there is a danger! You must take great care to assign the correct image to the correct text.

Leave the gray frame around the front (those with the image). Cut the gray frame on the back (with text). The back side should be smaller because you put the front and back sides together.

But when laminating, you must cut the A4 laminating film lengthwise into three long stripes. There are three cards in each lane. This makes it easy to laminate. I recommend home laminating and Peach laminating foil. Otherwise, laminating can be quite expensive, but when you have your own laminator, it's not expensive.

With a home laminator, first learn how to work: when you are feeding a sheet of paper, you need to put it straight if you feed the A4 sheet at an angle to curl around the edges. If it happens to you that you put the foil in a wrong way, that it will turn somehow, it can be cut off with a razor blade.

There is one more alternative: I did not cut individual images for the first lamination, but left a joint around the middle image. In order not to break down, I put a white synthetic paint there that I had dried in the oven. Then I bent the pictures where the joint (edge) was cut. See picture

The red circle is the place where I smeared the synthetic color.

The green line at the middle picture shows both the place where I folded the image and where I cut it.Then I folded it three more times and always cut in a similar way to cut a vertically oriented edge. Then I turned the image 90 ° and I did similarly with the remaining horizontal edges. Then I cut off those edges that are between the images 10-11-12; 10-13-16; 16-17-18; 18-15-12; Similarly, I did it with front images, but the green line is not placed over the gray line of the frame, but on the white edge to be cut.As a result, I got a total of 3 cut out front and 3 cut back sheets. I put them all in a laminating foil, fit them together and bonded in a laminator. Then I cut out the cards.

I laminated a total of three times to keep the cards from bending. I left the edge of the laminate 3 mm.That's because the cards are water resistant .

Before cutting the laminate, I drew the edge where I would cut. I made a template for it, in which I centered the card and then drew a border around it. I drew the line with a permanent marker. See image bellow:

Finally, with the help of a scaler (a measuring tool used eg by locksmiths), I checked the correct width and length of all cards. Identical dimensions for all cards are important so that the cards fit in your hand and do not fall out.

After all the cards went through the final check, I was using alcohol (aftershave water) to clear the cards from the marker.

Then I left each card through a laminator from all four sides to make the laminate edges stick again.Because during the cleaning some loosened.