Design your own Snap Card Game

Trying to think of an original and unique present for the gamer in your life?! Look no further than this fun and personalised game of Snap.

Now when I say gamer - I mean they must be interested in your old fashioned board games and card games otherwise this may not go down so well!!

 For my boyfriend's recent birthday I decided to design him a game of Snap with pictures of us. Not only is the game fun to play but it also reminds us of different vacations and events we have been to during our time together.

Each card features a photo plus a small caption and the date it was taken. Think of all those fun selfies and holiday snaps you have taken on your phone. Why not turn them into something fun and interactive. This would also make a great present idea for children with fun family holiday photos or pictures of them growing up.

In total I designed 25 cards and then printed another set to make it into a game of Snap. I used a combination of 5 different background designs rather than making all the backgrounds different which helps make the game a little bit more tricky if several cards have the same background!

To make the cards I used a software program called Craft Artist and used elements from my digital kits to create each card. If you have any design software you can easily create these cards and just search online for fun digital-kits you can download. American Crafts have some fantastic kits.

I printed the cards on photo paper to help give them a glossy finish and the card is just the right thickness so that it's sturdy enough to use in a card game.

To cut the cards out I used the 1788e Tonic Studios Sweet Nothings: An Artists Gift die set which not only provided a die to cut out my cards but also a box to store them in.

I designed a cover for the box to give the game a title and used images of some of the cards I had designed as part of the game to provide a brief preview of what was inside. The box was able to accommodate 50 cards easily and it made for a very good game!

A great personal gift to make year after year and makes looking at photos much more enjoyable!