Once Upon a Time custom cards1

There's this neat game called 'Once Upon a Time'. Everyone is dealt a random ending card and a bunch of storytelling cards which can feature places, characters, aspects, items or events. You then tell a story using your cards and try to make it finish up plausibly with your ending, but other people can take over the story if you say anything that's on one of their storytelling cards. There's a few more rules to make it work properly but that's the gist of it.

What I was most impressed by was that the game was not only fun when played seriously (trying to tell a sensible coherent story while still trying to 'win') but was also fun when played in a completely silly way!

You can buy the basic deck, the "Dark Tales" expansion deck (featuring rather more sinister cards and endings), or the "Create your own storytelling cards deck".

So we finally come to this deviation. I got all of the above, and am slowly making my way through customising the blank cards. You get a few with the original deck but the custom deck brings the total up to 64, and I'm aiming to do them in blocks of 16 at a time; this is the first block.

I created each card in the following stages:
-Brainstorm for new card ideas that would be silly and fun or fill in gaps in the existing cards - surpisingly I could only find one online example of some cards people had come up with (the only one I really liked was '12 inches long').
-Sketch out ideas for the drawing and find original cards with all the letters I need.
-Pencil the drawing onto the card itself and also pencil the letters trying to copy the font.
-Ink over the pencils (the card really doesn't take ink that well but you can kind of make it work).
-After the ink is very dry, colour in with colour pencils.
-Re-ink because the colour pencils inevitably wash out some of the blackness.

On average I guess an individual card takes me about 45 minutes to produce so you're looking at about 12 hours of work here, with another 36 hours to go for the rest! The trick is to do it regularly - I got into a routine where I would do a bit of work on the cards every day at 6pm.

For the record (and for search engines), here's what the cards depict:

Place: This Very Room
Place: Where They Started
Place: A Swamp
Place: Among The Clouds
Character: Ninja
Character: A Pirate
Aspect: This Has A Tail
Aspect: 12 Inches Long
Item: A Pet
Item: Not A Monkey
Event: Someone Forgets
Event: Three Times
Ending: And they sailed the high seas to the end of their days.
Ending: Which is not as hard as it sounds.
Ending: "What?"
Ending: Mornington Crescent

(From the original cards, it appears they use "A" or "An" whenever the word in question might be confused with a verb, so I tried to stick to that rule).