
Make Your Own Paper and Oracle Cards
by Kat Wojdyla
Since the lockdown started I had a lot of free time to try new things. One of them was making my own oracle cards from scratch, which involved making my own paper. At first I thought I need a lot of fancy equipment, but it turns out you can find most of the things at home. Here are the steps for making your own paper:
If you would like more fancy paper, you can add flower petals, tiny bits of coloured paper, threads or whatever comes to your mind between stage 4 and 5.
Once my paper dried, I decided to transform it into my own oracle cards. The good thing about making your own cards is that you can add whatever messages or images you want. I went with symbols from ‘The Book of Symbols- Reflections on Archetypal Images’. I opened the book at random page and would take whatever symbol came up. Later I traced the card shape I wanted on the sheet of paper and cut it out.


For painting the symbols I used watercolours and went with simple blue colour. You can spend as long or as little time as you want on one card. You can draw little illustrations, or you can write a single word on each of them. It is up to you and whatever your intuition is guiding you to do. I decided to do quick drawings, without worrying about proper shapes or proportions. It was my immediate response to the symbol, so I wanted it to be direct and spontaneous. I also added the title for each card so it was easier to read them later. I ended up with 52 cards, and since the paper I made was pretty thick, I have to shuffle the cards in three separate piles!




How do the cards work then?


These came out so great! So creative and you make it look really easy, they’re beautiful Kat 🙂
Loving your card making Kat, they’re really great!