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:D I suspect working directory and the ImageIcon constructor...

The way you're attempting to do it looks like it ought to work - the only thing that stuck out to me was that you do it differently for the fronts and the backs. I wonder if you're successfully...

Are you sure you're creating the ImageIcon correctly? I see you use getResource to load the card backs but you use a straight-from-named-file constructor for ImageIcon, which won't throw Exceptions...

That sounds like a really nice idea for a project. I think if I was going to do this the way you are doing it, I would certainly start by extending JButton - say something like

public class...