Daily Archives: February 23, 2016

I didn’t pay close enough attention when I was placing my order for these cards. I thought that I would be receiving note cards but as it turns out, these are single sided, heavyweight and slightly larger than business cards. There are 44 different designs in the cards.

My recent purchases from this publisher had led me to expect only a few with Biblical reference but it turns out that there are 28 cards with actual scriptural cites on them. There are an additional 10 which deal with God or other religious connotations. Finally, there are six general feel-good cards. I was surprised in a very good and happy way to see a larger focus on both Old and New Testament verses.

The cards are 4.25 x 3.25 inches. Most have the designs printed horizontally on the card with a few vertical designs. The card stock weight is very good and heavy. The front of the cards have a good tooth feel for good coverage for coloring pencils. The back of the card has a glossy finish that feels as if there is some type of coating on it.

I have been pondering how to use these cards and have decided I really like them as cards versus note cards. I can always mount them on blank cards if I wish to use them that way (as I do when I make cards with rubber stamp techniques.) They are also item to have on hand when our church home group meets at our house. It will be a fun way to take a break or to end the evening.

The designs are printed fairly small and I found that using my ultra-fine markers, smaller nib gel pens, and hard lead coloring pencils worked the best for me. Some of the cards have very tiny areas to color but that is to be expected with such a small coloring area.

None of of my coloring medium bled through this paper. Not even the alcohol-based markers had a color shadow zip, zilch, nothing. That makes it some of the best coloring card stock I have used. It is a really heavyweight paper and it behaves better than most other card stock I have used. My coloring pencils worked well but there wasn’t really enough surface to do much with blending; however, when I tested them, the soft lead pencils did blend well.

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:

Markers: 1) alcohol-based Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus fineliners

India Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes – 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and Tekwriter

Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castell Polychromos