Trimming the Dark Grimoire Tarot (Mod With Me)

Join me for another “mod with me” process video as we trim and edge the Dark Grimoire Tarot. To skip the process and go straight to the end result, jump to 21:33 in the timeline.
0:00 About the Deck
7:45 Writing the Notations
13:24 Trimming the Deck
21:33 Finished Deck Mod
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Artist’s Loft Dark Umber (edging)
Sharpie Ultra Fine Point (notations)
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[@jetthemidwestgothic]

I was like wow thats a cool deck id like to have it,then looked over to my tarot collection and realize I have it.. 😂

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Hehe I love it when that happens, it's a great surprise! (I've totally done that too.) 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@analuisahering2043]

I ADORE my Dark Grimoire !!! Cheap, spooky and an excellent reader ❤️👏

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

It is a really cool deck. I'm looking forward to work with it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@RumerHaven]

You temptress! Bought the deck (which I’d already talked myself out of) right after watching your video. Am absolutely trimming it as well, so thank you for showing its potential when modified!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How wonderful, I am so glad it helped you reconnect with the deck! Good luck with your mod. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@NiamhCreates]

I feel like this deck would pair well with the Ghosts & Spirits Tarot. Great deck mod!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Ooh I bet it would! That's another great spooky deck. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@sherylcohen1679]

Great mod job! It looks so much better!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you, I think so too. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@SuperDenizio]

I use this deck as the main for a few years. Now I think that it could work even better without the borders. Thank you for inspiration!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How wonderful, I am so glad you enjoyed it and liked the mod. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@tarotfortheheathens9556]

What a great mod! I love it borderless! This is BY FAR my favorite deck for shadow work and I feel the same way about having the books be such a prominent symbol. It’s an important image for me for the same reasons. Hope you have amazingly intuitive and profound readings with it! ❤️

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am really pleased with the way it came out! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@AmethystAscension]

This turned out AMAZING! This is creepy goodness. It looks tons better, and the size and edging are perfect also! I love how it turned out. 💖💖💖

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you so much, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. And it was fun!! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@dgchotch]

Excellent job!!! Thanx for sharing! 👍❤️☺️

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you so much, I think it came out pretty well. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@ermelindamusk4117]

All I see in this deck is shadow work and a very good one for telling the truth. Now I need to go do some shopping 😅😅

[@vivianwalsh1098]

Great ideas!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@LJP415]

This looks great. Your reasons (scroll with words) for trimming are exactly how I feel about the Heaven & Earth Tarot. I want to modify it so badly but haven’t been brave enough yet. Feeling more inspired now though. Thanks for the video.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I don't have that one, but I've seen pictures of it and I would be tempted to trim it as well. They do look pretty good trimmed up. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@RumerHaven]

The scroll made me think of Heaven & Earth Tarot, too, which I have and immediately trimmed. It looks so great without the scroll! I only regret that I had zoned out listening to a podcast while trimming and apparently flipped the Hanged Man around, not paying attention to what card it was and probably just seeing an upside-down man and thinking the card was reversed, so I absent-mindedly lopped off the TOP (talk about spacing out while operating a blade, YIKES), and that last lingering scroll haunts me ever since… The Hanged Man teaching me a lesson in surrender as I try to just let it go, I guess. 😆

[@lunaopenyourmind7554]

This video made me want to pull my copy out to play with, it reads really good. 📚📝❤️

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How wonderful, I am so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@VintageMoon-]

Love it!!! Looks really good… I showed this in my spooky decks video (still in order) cause I’m not sure what to use it for!!! I love your mods!!! Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I am so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@sarahmanana5614]

This turned out so good 👏👌 Dark Grimoire has been on my wish list forever cause I wasn't sure how to trim it, because of the weird backs... But it looks amazing on your cards!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Thank you so much, I am so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@whalesong813]

Are you going to make a dedicated journal for this deck? I was wondering because at the moment, you've assigned it specfic job (for lack a better word)? Your mod really makes this deck come alive, thank you for sharing.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I think it would be a really good candidate for a journal, but I'll see how much work I end up doing with it first. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@ambersky2294]

Thank you for doing this. This is a deck that I have and use. I agree - the banners are too much and very distracting. And that border is okay, but not really for this deck. It really is a distraction. I've been wanting to do it for awhile now, but was worried that it was take too much from the Majors. I like how yours turned out. Will have to try it now!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Wonderful, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Let me know how it turns out for you! 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@ambersky2294]

@@DawnMichelleTarot I like it a lot better so far! I love trimming decks. Definitely frees them up. Was just worried about losing too much, but really it wasn’t that much in the end. I use this deck a lot for when I want to tap into the subconscious. Works really well for that. Love it. Thank you for giving me the courage to do it with this one. Was worried I would mess it up! Now I just gotta decided what all I wanna write on it. I know you don’t like writing on yours, but I do. I think it’s nice sometimes to have that reminder, especially with the elemental connections for me. I saw where you use Sharpie. I prefer the Sharpie Paint myself to write with. (Love the effect with the metallic ones!) Will still wear off eventually. But it’s just as easy (or easier actually at times) to remove with the nail polish remover. (I use Q-tips though.) What I like about it more though - sometimes with the pen/marker you accidently press too hard. And even if you remove the ink, sometimes you can still see the writing from the imprint it leaves. Where-as with the paint, you’re not going to press into the card. Thank you again for making this vid.

[@ambersky2294]

@@DawnMichelleTarot Oh, I forgot I wanted to ask... The card that ended up a little short, was it the 2 of Cups? My 2 of Cups is a little short for some weird reason...

[@MATT-dw3lu]

It looks better even the backs when you laid it out lots of stories came to mind im going to do it with a deck by the same artist think its called 2012 also a strange dark deck

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

How exciting, I hope it turns out great for you. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@gingerblue]

You can always get rid of the sharpie with a little rubbing alcohol when you get familiar with the deck, and there are also much finer tip permanent markers on the market. You might want to look into one of those roller stamps that have the entire numerical/alphabet on it, and some Stayz On- I just wrote some notations on my newly trimmed Margarete Petersen deck, and I wish I had used my roller stamp to do it!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Ooh great suggestions, I will definitely look into that options if I consider writing on my cards again. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@annabellegelinas7192]

I wish I have more info on the marker you talk?

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Do you mean the tombow marker or the sharpie? I'm happy to pass along any other info that might be helpful. 🙂

[@annelyle5474]

I love the purpose you've chosen this deck for, and as a writer I feel I need to do this confrontational work too - but I know too much about HP Lovecraft to want a deck based on his work and with his portrait on the back of every card. I guess I'll need to find another deck that scratches the same itch. Hope this doesn't put you off, though!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I could totally see that! I think any deck that connects you to your written work might be good for challenging those writing fears. I know I have a lot of work to do in this area. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@MistressOfWhispers]

Oh hard same. You should have seen my face when I recognized HPL. No thank you.

[@sajabell2830]

I would love to know if you found some help trough the deck? For your writing? I though to use this one for my challenges as a writes too 😁

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Sadly, it didn't end up really working for me. I've found that my collage decks have been more help for getting me through those creative slumps.

[@rolofrangipan3719]

I have just bought the Cosmic tarot which I really want to trim but I almost ALWAYS make a mistake trimming (usually on the last card!!!)

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

The more you do it the easier it gets. Maybe practicing on some cheap playing cards might help. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@sprinkletsid5791]

I hate the border, which prevent me from buying it. And after this mod, they look like so much better! Idk if I had the skill and patience to do this though haha.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

It’s kinda a labor of love for sure, but the end result was sure worth it. 😀

[@VenusinVirtue]

Lovely video, Dawn Michelle! May I make a suggestion if it's ok? A trigger warning for the Hanged Man in this particular deck would have been appreciated, as I'm sure some out there really struggle with that particular imagery. I recently did a restructure and mod of my John Bauer (inspired by you!!) and wrote my new titles on my cards in metallic sharpies. I ended up writing mine in different areas, wherever my eye was drawn too so it didn't cover up any important art.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

My apologies I wasn't really thinking about the artwork so much as the mod, I should have included a warning. Thank you for mentioning it, I will try to keep that in mind when I show decks in my mods too. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@VenusinVirtue]

@@DawnMichelleTarot no need to apologize!! Thank you for being open to adjusting future videos. You are such a kind soul, I know you meant no ill harm and I hope my comment didnt come across as rude.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Not at all and I appreciate the feedback! ❤️

[@ThatBarbGirl]

I normally prefer borders but I gave this deck away because the title banners 🤮 Seeing it trimmed makes me 😍

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I wish publishers would stop with the banner clipart lol. But it was a fun trim and now it's a spooky little pocket deck. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@AnnieDusk]

Ohh but you *are* a writer. Maybe you meant more like a fiction writer, but I literally have a book written by you in my bookshelf so 👀 Now, the deck: the artwork is very pretty but yes, the multilingual Lo Scarabeo borders are always meh. Once trimmed they look absolutely stunning! I wish I had your patience and manual dexterity!

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

Hehe I suppose that's true, I am a writer! I guess I was thinking more about fiction, but that's not actually what I want to be writing anymore. I'm working on a couple of tarot related books. ☺️ I agree the deck looks so much better. All the creepy goodness. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@chelseabangs9657]

Nothing about this deck was creepy. Good to know not to waste my money on it.

[@MistressOfWhispers]

First thing I'd do is paper over the backs so I don't have to see HPL's racist face ;)

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

I did think about that and I may yet when I have some free time... I have some great faux black leather contact paper that would be perfect. 🙂 Thank you for watching. ❤️

[@markmartin2292]

Um, no. You should stop trimming decks. It destroys the resale value. You should respect the artist original vision. Sure there’s part of the Mona Lisa I don’t like and I’m tempted to fix some Picassos but I don’t.

[@Majora_Arcana]

What a stupid comment. You know that some people don’t resell their decks ? Also some buyers don’t mind if it’s trimmed ? It’s her decks, she do what she wants with them. Modifying your deck is an amazing way to make it your own. Your comment is pointless and disrespectful.

[@DawnMichelleTarot]

If I was trimming the original work of art I would be tempted to agree with you... However this is a copy, a reproduction. It's more accurate to say that trimming a mass produced deck is similar to trimming a postcard featuring the Mona Lisa... Comparing it to defacing a priceless work of art is just silly. If trimmed decks offend you, you might wish to find another channel to watch as I will continue to do what I wish with the things that I own.

[@lexwithbub]

This isn't the original art, it's a reproduction, on card. But you know what? If you actually owned the original Mona Lisa, you could do whatever the hell you wanted with it. That's the thing about buying something - Once you buy it, you are free to do whatever you want with it. Regardless of whether it's a print/reproduction or the original art. If you're going to get upset about what someone might do with your art, then don't sell your art.

[@MistressOfWhispers]

/comes into a tarot modding channel /complains about ppl modding tarot Did you get lost maybe? That's understandable--KZbin is vast. May I recommend any of the many channels where ppl don't mod their deck? Those seem like they'd suit you better.