Hockey Rookie Card - Custom Paint by Numbers Kit

Chest-up and ready for the season opener, the player on this card stands framed by a rink washed in cool blues and crisp whites, red-line and yellow-line markings streaking behind the shoulders like the boards of a home arena. A hockey stick rests against the jersey, its blade and taped handle rendered in bold flat colour with soft painterly shading, while the bottom bar carries the player's name in clean block capitals, the only lettering allowed on the whole card.

This is the Hockey edition of our Rookie Card series, built so the face fills a third of the frame or more and the thin colour border stays exactly that: a border, never a distraction from the likeness. Every plain jersey, every stick, every ice-rink backdrop is painted in rich saturated colour and visible brushwork, so the finished piece reads as one cohesive painting rather than a photo with a filter.

Hand a set of premium acrylic paints and a numbered reference sheet to a beginner, a hobbyist parent, or a hockey-obsessed teammate and watch the rink, the jersey red, and the proud straight-on pose come together stroke by stroke. It's a gift that turns a favourite face into the star of their own trading card, whether that face belongs to a kid on skates or someone who's never laced up a pair.

Upload the photo, choose the name for the bottom bar, and let the rink lights and rink lines do the rest.