Making movie trading cards is easier than I thought it would be when I decided to do the Movie Trading Card Assignment. I wanted to make a more traditional movie trading card and not a Pokemon card so I lucked out when I found this trading card from Silkwood.

I chose to base my trading card on GIRLS, which if you hadn’t noticed from my previous work, is one of my favorite tv shows. One of my all time favorite scenes from the show is from season 1 when Shoshanna accidentally takes crack at a party and Jessa appoints Ray to be her “Crack Spirit Guide” to help keep her safe. The pink background on the trading card was extracted from Shoshana’s shirt and the text and the border are in white. I used this image that I found from the scene and scaled it up to fit better in the frame.

After reading this article about the typography used for the GIRLS logo, I searched for some art-deco inspired fonts for the text of the card and after trying a few fonts, decided to use Parisish for the quote on the trading card. I copied the GIRLS logo and edited it in GIMP before pasting it into the card.

The whole process was simpler than I expected and I love how my trading card turned out.