Messing with moodboards

I've been messing with moodboards lately and I can see why so many people do it. It's great for when you want to mess around in photoshop but don't actually know what to do.
All you have to do is think of a vague theme & find some pic that fit it.

I decided to try for something more ambitions then usual & try my had a doing moving gifs match with static images. I foolishly thought it'd be easy.
And maybe it would have been if I had the right software.

I decided to do playing cards. I picked one of each face card along with the Ace so I could do 4 cards for the 4 suits. I know you can get another version of the 4 suits to match tarot cards you can also match the 4 elements to a suit as well.
So I had my theme: King of Diamonds, coins & earth; Queen of Clubs, wands & fire; Jack of Hearts, cups & water & Ace of Spades, sword & air.
I picked the king of dimonds becuse it's the only king on a traditional pack that's shown in profile so it's more distinct then the others.
I pick the Ace of spade because it's the fanciest looking ace in a traditional pack.
I picked jack of hearts because jack of hearts is a thing.
And that left the queen to be clubs.

It wasn't too hard to find cool gifs to use, the only thing I made sure of was to avoid pintest. (I dislike pinterst on principle because it makes it impossible to find sources. Also you can't scroll thought it without joining which I refuse to do)

I photoshopped what I wanted my frame to be and then tried to find an easy way to add the gifs.

I could not find an easy way.

I couldn't find any free software that's just add them together how I wanted so I tried to convert them to video to edit them & then convert it back to a gif.
I used ezgif.com to convert them & it worked ok but it kept dropping frames or cutting of the end of the gifs making them choppy.
I managed to make something functional but I wasn't really happy with it so I caved and just split all the gifs into frames & transferred them into GIMP to work on them individually & them combined them how I wanted.
It took ages.

Remind me to do these the easy way from now on & just pick up some gifs & post them together.

Anyway, here's how they turned out (assists I used can be found in links on my deviantart)

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