Any tips on making cards??

I recently created a card game and I used a somewhat ghetto way, but it worked. I bought blank playing cards at a teacher store (I believe it was around $7 for 200 of them). They were to small to be fed through a printer so I taped them to a piece of paper and ran them through that way. It took a little time to get the margins right, but once I did all i had to do was take the cards off, tape new ones on and repeat. The only problem to doing it this way was that in the middle of the paper the tape sort of melted (i was using a laser printer). So this made it necessary to put all of the cards in plastic sleeves because they were sticky, but it worked.

I had an old stack of business cards lying around, and have found that they work perfectly for prototyping, if you don

I use Oxford Custom Printable Index Cards. They come 3 up on a regular-sized sheet of card stock, and are perforated so you can easily separate them after printing.

For my in-progress prototype i ordered 1000 business cards online. I had the fronts printed in large font CARD_PILE_1 etc, or what ever u need them to say, and I am just writing on them in pencil on the back with the info for the game. Hey its not pretty, but to get something in front of me, that i can touch and feel, and test the actual game mechanics in motion, its well worth the 30 bucks or so it costs.

I guess it all depends on how Good you want a prototype to look. Is it playable ? that all that really matters to me, at this point in my development, look and all the other bells & whistles can come later.