I finally got some info on how to make the cards look like that painted effect its called The Dragan Effect, for those of you who have Adobe Photoshop and want to have a go at manipulating photos install this Draganizse action into photoshop, or simply load the action in photo, or if you find that a bit confusing follow these steps in the psd file, that shows exactly how to get the photos to look that way. I am going to give it a go, worth a shot, can't gaurantee it will look as good as the custom cards I had made, I want to try and finish my set of Aussie Custom Baseball cards with some photos I have saved to my comp
Will post my efforts as soon as I finish them, not sure when that will be though lol!
I'm not sure its going to let me upload the files so if your interested I will put them in my photobuckett