HOW TO MAKE MONEY
POKER CHIPS – not money but money related…
OK, I didn’t make my poker chips seen in my stories as they are easily available in this Christmas Gift Set. (also available on ebay and Amazon) Well worth the $5.00.
A mini Roulette wheel.
OK, I didn’t make my poker chips seen in my stories as they are easily available in this Christmas Gift Set. (also available on ebay and Amazon) Well worth the $5.00.
A mini Roulette wheel.
You get this wheel, a crap felt table mat and a bag of chips. The chips are worth the cost of everything. You get 84 chips with a wheel. In order to have even more chips for the story I produced, I was lucky enough to find THREE more of these wheels at half price in the discount aisle. So what you see is four sets combined, or 336 chips. I am not one to reinvent the wheel and the time required to make this many two sided chips seemed prohibitive. These chips measure .484” in diameter by .063” thick…which equates to just under 2 15/16” in diameter by 3/8” thick. This is a little big and thick from any I have ever used but still, I think they worked out rather well.
If I hadn’t come across these chips, I expect I would have simply printed out a variety of chip values on full sheet label stock…applied it to a thick sheet of poster board and used a hole punch of the desired size to punch them out. They would have been one-sided but that would be fine for my purposes.
If I hadn’t come across these chips, I expect I would have simply printed out a variety of chip values on full sheet label stock…applied it to a thick sheet of poster board and used a hole punch of the desired size to punch them out. They would have been one-sided but that would be fine for my purposes.
PAPER MONEY
Yes, you can buy these off ebay by the bundle but for my purposes, I’d prefer to make my own.
If you are looking for crisp, flat bills, the simplest is to download and print the below image onto full-sheet shipping label stock.
This style of bills are featured in episode 238 of iCarly:Five Years Later when Carly pays Paige for the groceries or episode 289 when Carly pays Skipper for apartment-sitting.
FYI: I take no credit for this graphic as I got it off a 1/6th scale web site. Files like these are out there for nearly every bill.
Yes, you can buy these off ebay by the bundle but for my purposes, I’d prefer to make my own.
If you are looking for crisp, flat bills, the simplest is to download and print the below image onto full-sheet shipping label stock.
This style of bills are featured in episode 238 of iCarly:Five Years Later when Carly pays Paige for the groceries or episode 289 when Carly pays Skipper for apartment-sitting.
FYI: I take no credit for this graphic as I got it off a 1/6th scale web site. Files like these are out there for nearly every bill.
For my printer, I set it to print at 114dpi. You may have to do some trial and error runs to get them to print out very near 1 1/16” long. Cut them out and carefully fold each bill down the center before removing the backing from the label. Then carefully remove the backing, line up the two top edges and smooth the two halves together.
WRINKLED MONEY
OK, wrinkled money is much trickier. You definitely don’t wanna use the above method. They are just too stiff and thick to wrinkle well. This method will also depend on the type and repeatability of your printer.
These bills are featured in our second Game Night story on iCarly:Five Years Later. Episodes 369-415
I took a random dollar bill, scanned both sides and cleaned up the boarders so they were near equal. With both scans resized to the exact same length and width, I pasted then together so the bottoms (or tops) touched.
OK, wrinkled money is much trickier. You definitely don’t wanna use the above method. They are just too stiff and thick to wrinkle well. This method will also depend on the type and repeatability of your printer.
These bills are featured in our second Game Night story on iCarly:Five Years Later. Episodes 369-415
I took a random dollar bill, scanned both sides and cleaned up the boarders so they were near equal. With both scans resized to the exact same length and width, I pasted then together so the bottoms (or tops) touched.
Now the tricky part. Once you determine the scale or dpi settings for your printer to get the right length for these bills it is time to print.
Below are the steps I use for my 1/6th scale dollar bills.
Using file one dollar2-half.bmp…
(The file shown above has been reduced by 75 percent before uploading)
Using Windows 10 Paint program
Set to 34% size and center horizontally (bill should now print about 1 1/16 long)
Print on standard paper
Insert paper back in printer – do NOT turn over
Print again
Normally I will turn the paper around and follow these steps again to create FOUR bills per sheet
If you hold the paper up to the light, you should see only a single printing with no mismatch from the other side. This is NOT an exact method unless you have a VERY repeatable printer. But it is still cheaper than ebay prices…if you have the time…depending on how many you need.
If you can get by with printing on one side only, then it is super simple to make stacks and stacks. If you indeed do want the money to look used…wad up the paper before cutting them out. It gives a much better result.
Using file one dollar2-half.bmp…
(The file shown above has been reduced by 75 percent before uploading)
Using Windows 10 Paint program
Set to 34% size and center horizontally (bill should now print about 1 1/16 long)
Print on standard paper
Insert paper back in printer – do NOT turn over
Print again
Normally I will turn the paper around and follow these steps again to create FOUR bills per sheet
If you hold the paper up to the light, you should see only a single printing with no mismatch from the other side. This is NOT an exact method unless you have a VERY repeatable printer. But it is still cheaper than ebay prices…if you have the time…depending on how many you need.
If you can get by with printing on one side only, then it is super simple to make stacks and stacks. If you indeed do want the money to look used…wad up the paper before cutting them out. It gives a much better result.
COINS
Coins are another matter altogether…due to their size. I tried scanning coins to print but the quality was so poor it was not worth the effort.
I ended up, for a segment with the Wishing Well, simply printing an area of a sheet of paper on both sides silver and used a hole punch from my leather crafting set of the proper size to punch out enough. With a quarter being .951”, or just over 15/16”, that makes a 1/6 scale quarter well over 1/8” but just under 3/16”. I used my 3/16” punch. This method worked well for this story as you really had to LOOK to even see Sam had coins in her palm as there were no close-ups of the coins used…but they WERE there. This is fine if you do not zoom in too close.
Coins are another matter altogether…due to their size. I tried scanning coins to print but the quality was so poor it was not worth the effort.
I ended up, for a segment with the Wishing Well, simply printing an area of a sheet of paper on both sides silver and used a hole punch from my leather crafting set of the proper size to punch out enough. With a quarter being .951”, or just over 15/16”, that makes a 1/6 scale quarter well over 1/8” but just under 3/16”. I used my 3/16” punch. This method worked well for this story as you really had to LOOK to even see Sam had coins in her palm as there were no close-ups of the coins used…but they WERE there. This is fine if you do not zoom in too close.
Sam holding quarters Close-up
Quarters on wishing well ledge
(they ARE there if you look close)
(they ARE there if you look close)
I decided to try a little harder so…eventually I found a GOOD picture of a quarter and, by printing it at 4% of its size using Windows Paint program, I could use the same hole punch to cut them out. Printing these onto a blank mailing label, sticking that to an index card, or similar thin cardboard, then punching them out seems to work best.
Please keep an eye out for these being featured in past, current and future episodes of iCarly:Five Years Later...as well as our other stories.