🎨 Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Artist Trading Cards - Smooth Surface for Creative Excellence, 20 Sheets: A Perfect Canvas for Your Artistic Masterpieces Review

Meh, these cards weren't bad, but they weren't great. The paper quality is good, as is the presence of pre-cut cards. The problem is that the cards aren't cut quite right. While the length of all sides is correct, the corners are slightly offset by 90°, which slightly distorts the maps. They're not bad enough to send back, but noticeable enough that as soon as I pulled them out I saw they weren't quite right. (Original rating 3/5 stars) Edit 3/4/17 - I ordered another set of these cards and…

I usually make my own blank ATCs out of good heavyweight paper but I've had a hectic week when I was very short on time, I bought these for group art project for the young artist club. All the kids had different ways of using these cards creatively with a variety of mediums (watercolors, markers, pens, ink and stamps, glue sticks, collage materials, crayons, glitter glue) and these smooth blank cards held up well and didn't bleed through from MODERATE marker use, but children with heavier hands

Excellent quality. I won't deny it But they are overpriced. I can cut ten 2.5" x 3.5" cards from a 9" x 12" Strathmore Bristol Board paper. (For reference, 20 sheets of 9" x 12" paper are currently $6.41 on Revain.) So if I cut each sheet out of a 20-sheet notebook, I would have 200 cards for $6.41. If I wanted to buy 200 pre-cut cards from this seller it would cost me $46.70, that's an insane difference. Assuming you don't have the materials to cut the paper into ATC sizes (this is where I'll…