\\ SIGNATURE EDITION PRIVATE RESERVE WHITE DECK //
(The new Kickstarter Exclusive deck that has been unlocked)

These wine themed playing cards are full of flavour, offering both premium quality as well as an in depth look into traditional wine production methods from the 1900's.  Decks include illustrations depicting wine bottle labels with characters from the Vintage Label Winery, Brewery and Distillery (Spades) as well as winery estate landscapes (Hearts), wine production equipment (Diamonds) and wine production/storage processes (Clubs).  Decks include many bonus cards and features for both card magic and poker as well as featuring a back story that creates intrigue for you to further enjoy this unique collectable set of playing cards.

Can you unravel the story behind these decks?

Please Come and support my new Kickstarter project, and in return,  get your hands on one or more of these unique Kickstarter Exclusive Decks
 (Only 500 KS Exclusive 'Signature Edition' Decks will be printed).

Thankyou for taking the time to learn more about my new playing card project and hope to have you supporting me

Kind Regards,
Craig L Maidment

P.S
Images uploaded are on low resolution file size to fit on page so it is hard to read the Character Bio's for each court card but higher quality images are uploaded to the Kickstarter page at https://tinyurl.com/y4rnald7 or available to read from my design studio website at

Hey,

Just wanted to share my new Kickstarter Exclusive deck that I have recently revealed on my current Kickstarter project for backers to pledge for.

These new limited Edition decks are being designed exclusively for backers for my current Kickstarter Project to thank them for their support of my new playing card project and the decks will include new alternate 100% customised illustration court cards, silver gilded card edging and my personal signature included on the back of the tuck box.

Please come and check these out on Kickstarter and let me know what you think and maybe make a pledge to get your hands on one of the KS Exclusive decks.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/vintage-label-playing-cards-premier-edition-black

There are also several new reward options available on the Kickstarter for backers, including Limited Edition, Giant Sized, signed and date stamped, illustration court cards.... as well as a Wooden Vintage Label Wine/Deck Case that contains a signature edition private reserve deck set (Includes one [SILVER GILDED] Private Reserve White Deck plus one [SIGNATURE EDITION] Private Reserve White Deck with Silver Gilded card edging).

There will only be 500 Signature Edition Decks produced and made available exclusively to backers for Vintage Label Playing Cards on Kickstarter.

Please come and support us and get you hands on these new Signature Edition Decks that have been inspired by Vintage Wine Bottle Labelling and Wine Making from the 1900's to be able award to backers as a thankyou for supporting  my playing card projects on Kickstarter.

Thanks everyone for your support!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/vintage-label-playing-cards-premier-edition-black

The Vintage Label Limo has just arrived on Kickstarter, so I invite you to join us and to take a seat and relax, as we are about to head out for a tour of the vineyards!.

TAKE THE FULL TOUR HERE for Vintage Label Playing Cards (Live on Kickstarter) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/vintage-label-playing-cards-premier-edition-black/posts/2502549


Inspiration for this playing card project was derived from vintage wine bottle labelling from the 1900's to bring you a unique wine/deck collection in a range of wine colours....

I wanted these decks to be of premium quality and to have a classical look and feel that would project a sense of fine quality, class and sophistication, perfect for your next high stakes poker night, cardistry or magic trick performance.

Much like wine, a deck of playing cards increases in value over time...... the earlier the vintage, the more valuable both wine and playing cards become.....Here is your chance to invest in the first editions of Vintage Label Playing Cards and to start your very own Vintage Label Wine/Deck Collection!

These decks have been in development for quite some time in my imagination and I am hoping to now make this unique wine/deck collection a reality for everyone to enjoy!

Will you help me?

Project is live now on Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/vintage-label-playing-cards-premier-edition-black/?ref=kicktraq

Hi Don!,

Wow thankyou for the great advice and for answering my many questions! I really appreciate your feedback on this project Don and will be taking it all into consideration while moving forward with the development of these decks .

Hoping that I can reign in on my creativity to develop this wine/deck collection in a way that will be appealing to deck collectors and thankyou again for the great advice and also for your words of encouragment!.

Best Regards,
Craig

Hey everyone,
Gold Dragon Playing Cards are now available now from leading retailers!

Best Regards,
Craig

Hi Everyone,

I am currently working on a new highly intricate detailed, fully custom set of playing cards (yet to be revealed) that I am hoping to be able to produce to the highest standards possible for the collectable playing card market and hoping to hear your thoughts and opinions.  These designs I feel are deserving of the best in quality, quality of which I will hopefully be able to deliver in the near future as more support for my designs grows and more funds become available to me.  So If you were planning on producing, looking to purchase, or hoping to see from a deck of cards being launched on Kickstarter, as a new premium deck of cards of highest quality to add to your deck collection, which card manufacturer would you consider as the best for offering highest quality, along with which card stock you would consider as the highest quality that you would want the cards to be made from?.  I would like the deck to include all the extras, such as foil box seals, embossed tuck case, Mettalic inks, printed inner tuck case etc, and the design is one that I am hoping everyone will appreciate for it's level of detail and would like it produced to the highest standards possible for a deck of playing cards.

I am also considering sharing my finished deck design by collaborating with another card designer to help produce my finished product with their extended skills in launching decks of such quality, and if there are also any other top card designers on here that would be interested in this opportunity, feel free to send me an email to mr_maidment2@hotmail.com .  I will be taking care of all of the card designing, promotional images, product samples, Kickstarter page presentation etc that I assure you will all be to the highest standard that you can be proud to be a part of, and all you will have to do is help guide me in the best direction to assist me with producing the deck to the highest quality possible with your extended knowledge and skills in the industry for producing premium decks with all the extras included. I will be happy extend my offer for a % of funds raised for your efforts in helping me to create this deck.  Currently I am considering Legends Playing Card Company as from my research so far, their quality is top notch, plus they seem easy to work with.  Your thoughts?

P.S This new deck is planned to be launched after I finish launching the Silver Dragon (Currently on Kickstarter), Gold Dragon and a Limited Edition Turning Japanese deck to finish off my first deck series since starting out as custom playing card designer.  By this stage I will hopefully have enough funding and support to help raise the extra funds needed to launch a premium deck of highest quality possible with all the extras and I will be investing extra time and money to finish preparing the highly intricate details that will be present throughout the design.  I will be taking everything I have learned so far in card designing to the next level to bring you my greatest masterpiece yet, and it will be a deck that I hope other card designers will be proud to be a part of by collaborating with me to launch it on Kickstarter and help to guide me with it's production.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts, opinions and help with making this next dream of mine a reality, and if all goes well this deck will be launching in early 2020  
So stay tuned for updates and reveals......
Best Regards,
Craig
CLCPC Studio 52

P.S If you would like to help see this deck become a reality, please help by supporting us
You can do so by following all of our deck developments at -
- Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/CLCPC-Studio-52-1470532589645424/ 
- Studio Website - https://www.customplayingcardsclcpcstudio52.com/
- Black Dragon Inner Circle - https://www.blackdragoninnercircle.com/
as well as clicking the 'Follow Creator' button on Kickstarter at - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/silver-dragon-playing-cards-standard-edition-magic?ref=9wi0hu

Hi Don,

Thanks for merging the posts and appologies for posting seperate, I will remeber this in future. Thanks

Built upon legend and inspired by ancient tradition, this Limited Edition deck is a 60 card deck of premium playing cards featuring illustrations by world famous artist Marine Loup.  Each deck contains 52 playing cards, 2 joker cards (1 signed), 1 double backer card, 1 unique gaff card plus 5 bonus illustration cards all featuring Marine Loups signature.  Made in collaboration with CLCPC Studio 52 this deck was inspired by an ancient Japanese legend of the koi fish - The legend goes that through determination and perseverance, a single koi fish was able to swim upstream to reach the top of a waterfall against all odds. It overcame demons that laughed at and mocked its efforts and who had also heightened the waterfall out of malice. According to this legend, after reaching the top of the waterfall, the gods who had witnessed the koi's efforts turned the koi into a Golden Dragon, the image of power and strength. This deck draws its inspiration from this legend and from Marine Loup and her Turning Japanese illustrations, and represents the determination and perseverance demonstrated by the koi, battling against all odds to succeed. Koi fish are a feature in the deck and are smimming around the centre suit makings of each Ace card as well as a black Koi fish featured on the Joker cards to sybolise the perseverence and determination of the single Koi fish that was able to reach the top of the waterfall.

Funded in just over 24hrs there are still Stretch Goals to unlock for these decks to have them include numbered box seal stickers, emossed tuck box, card stock upgrades plus other bonus rewards and more being available for backers of this project.  Please come and help us on this campaign to having these decks produced for collectors and fans of Marine Loups Turning Japanese art collection.

Live on Kickstarter now at - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/green-dragon-playing-cards-standard-edition?ref=category&ref=discovery&term=playing%20cards

Launching today on Kickstarter!.
Green Dragon (Standard Edition) which is the second 'Standard Edition' deck to be launched for the Black Dragon Series Of Playing Cards! Designed specifically for card magic (includes a 3 level marking system) with many card tricks ready to perform straight out of the pack! includes 1 Gaff card plus 1 hidden reveal (Full details on Kickstarter page). 

Also launching a [LIMITED EDITION] Turning Japanese deck (Be early as there is only 250 Limited Edition Decks available in this campaign) more updates when we launch. For more details and link to Kickstarter page visit https://www.customplayingcardsclcpcstudio52.com/ or follow us on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CLCPC-Studio-52-1470532589645424/

Hi Don,
Thanks for the great pointers mate, I will keep them in mind going forward with this project.  I have a few other card projects I am working on that I plan to release later this year but I'm not going to give up on this current project just yet, so if it doesn't turn out well this time round I will be back to relaunch it at some stage with just the traditional Blue Fate deck in both standard and holographic Print, with the additional of a Wooden Collectors Box with LED UV PRINTING on the lid.  For the Standard print decks I will be going with USPPC for manufacturing as well.  Hopefully the new offerings plus the simplicity of the campaign will gain some more interest within the card community when it relaunches.   Thanks again and I will let you know when I'm about to launch my next project in a few months 

Hey Don, both yourself and Eddie have made a valuable point that collectors tend to prefer traditional suits for a decks of cards.  I was definately stepping outside the box for this development and taking a risk. It may be that this set of cards would be better marketed as a card game as suggested, despite me trying to design them specifically to include features for cardistry and magic trick performances......if it be that card collectors arn't fans of non traditional suits than that will be unfortunate...whether or not this includes cardists or card magicians as well, I am unsure?.  With all thing aside, the final design for this deck series really just came about after deciding to replace the traditional markings on a deck that was in development with four 'Shapes' to go with the theme of the Shapeshifter Story(A story I had been writing as a seperate project .  In turn the four shapes were then included into story line and they serve much deeper purpose then just random shapes which I have outlined below.
 (This may seem a bit out there to read for you if your not into the world of Science Fiction but should never the less be interesting for you I hope).


The suit marking in this deck series have been created based on the Shapeshifter Story, a story within which a secret society existed to defend humanity against an evil threat to mankind, a threat that began during the time of the ancient egyptians when an alien race of beings called Gouanen (aka Shapeshifters) first arrive on Earth to deceive and manipulate mankind for their own pleasures and secret agenda for Earth. In the Shapeshifters Story, in the year 2031, there is an uprising againt the Shapeshifters, after which humanity is able to return to a peaceful existence on Earth. A utopian world then emerges that is free from all the opppression, slavery and injustice that was brought upon us by the Shapeshifters. The secret society in the story that leads the uprising against the Shapeshifters is called The Four Pillars, who fought for Truth, Loyaly, Honor and Justice for mankind as they sought to expose the shapeshifters and to free us from their evil clutches. The story concludes as mankind begins to rebuild after the war on the Shapeshifters and they emerge to be able to enjoy their true freedoms from oppression and of slavery and injustice. They finally begin to relax and return to everyday life, enjoying music, art, dance and other social interactions while having a greater respect for one another. During this time a new set of playing cards emerge that have been designed to symbolise the common values of the new world and of The Four Pillars.... that of Truth, Loyalty, Honor, and Justice.  These are represented by the following four shapes in the deck series and in the story- Circles(Truth), Pentagons(Loyalty), Triangles(Honor), and Crosses(Justice). In the story.  In the future (in 2077), these cards serve as a constant reminder for people of the true values of humanity in order to continue living a peaceful existance on Earth, and they also serve as a reminder of the time when mankind was able to take control of their fate and reclaim their freedom from Earths oppressors. The Shapeshifters Card Game reflects this storyline and players must strategise as they try to see through all the lies and deceipt around them from the other players to be able to take control of their fate and to expose the shapeshifters to be able to win the game (plays a bit like a game of poker with the inclusion a shapshifter cards that are able to take the form of any card of a matching colour, as well as The Four Pillars card that can be used to expose Shapeshifter cards from a players hand.  The Four Pillars Card can be also used to represent any shape/suit in the game to help with making the best 5 card hand to win a round).
For this project, I really wanted to create something that had a deep and valuable meaning...one that I have tried to expressed in the form of both a deck series, card game and a science fiction story/comic book series. And although having a sci fi theme for each, at the core of it all are some important truths about humanity and about the world. My intention for this project is for it to serve as a guide to reshaping the world in which we live, by encouraging people to take control of their fate and to find ways to introduce changes in order to free the world from all the corruption and injustice that has plagued us since the dawn of civilisation.  Eventually I want to be able to offer the Shapeshifter Card Game in a pack that also includes the shapeshifter comic book when it is completed, so people can get into the story and then play the game and have fun while learning valuable lessons on life.... I am hoping for this project to be able to influence kids in a positive way while not being too serious by making it into a fun card game and sci fi story/comic book that has a message behind it, that in order to change the world we need to take control of our fate, (and also, that other influential people around us have the power to deceive, hence the Green Deck in the series titled 'The Power To Deceive'.  (I included design features for cardistry and card magic to try and reach a wider audience to be able to share my message with).
More about the decks design features -
The Green deck also serves as a gaff deck for the Blue 'Take Control Of Your Fate' deck as you ca introduce cards from the Green Deck into the Blue Deck to perform deceptive card tricks with, such as using the card manipulation technique that David Blaine uses for one of his card tricks that is called 'The Shapeshifter' that involves changing a card from one shape to another with thes cards.  The Shapeshifter trick has long been one of my favourite card tricks to perform and can be used with the Shapeshifter Decks to not only change the shape of a card in a trick, but also to change the colour of a shape on the card by using the same method of card manipulation.  While im on the topic of the design features for the decks, the green triangles on the card backings form part of a one way design that if placed back in the deck in the opposite direction to the other cards, the green triangles serve as indicators and allow the deck handler to see specific cards in the deck since the green triangles will be facing in a slightly different direction that goes by unoticed by the spectator but is easily recognised by the trained eye.  Theres a lot more to the design features that I wont get into for now as im sure I have raved on enough lol.

Thanks for reading my rather long post by the way, im sure it was a lot to take in, but thanks if you got this far into reading it lol. I just want to say that really appreciate the feedback you have been giving me on everything and it is great to have your opinions on my deck designs..... even though some of it wasn't what I was hoping to hear its still great to have honest and constructive feedback that will be useful moving forward from here.  Thanks guys :)

Hi everyone,
Craig here again from CLCPC Studio 52, just hoping to hear from you guys on how our new Kickstarter campaign is currently being presented, and if you have any thoughts or suggestions for us on ways to  improve how it looks that would be great.

Thanks guys, really appreciate your help :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754282482/shapeshifter-playing-cards-card-game-comic-book-an