Apostrophe Games Blank Hexagon Playing Cards

I have bought from them a few times and I was satisfied 100% with each purchase. They package with care and their materials are very good. Their products brought joy to our family as we play our custom-made board games.

Just the right size - similar to a deck of cards.

I've been looking on and off for blank cards for over a year but reviews on card-stock thickness always hit pause for me.I love the weight of these cards. they'll stand up to shuffling just fine.

The thickness, performance, and ease of shuffling of these cards was so magical that I did not see the silver threads binding me irrevocably to their unknowable will. The cards control me now. The cards ARE me now. Eventually, the cards will consume my soul entirely. But until then, five stars! Would recommend!

I only need one side for my project, and I thought I'd use one of my custom stamps, using archival ink, to adorn the other side.I lightly coated the stamp with the stamp pad ink and pressed it to the card, where it left a clear and perfect imprint that under normal circumstances would have been dry immediately.The stamp pad ink did not dry on its own after 3 hours, so I used blotting paper. It took 3 sheets of blotting paper to bring it to a near dry condition and another hour to finally dry. I left it overnight to 'set' and the next morning - it was dry.Yes, it was.But - it smeared with the least pressure. I knew it would rub into an indecipherable mess with even light usage, so rubber stamping using archival ink pads was out.On the happy side: gel pens work well - the narrower the nib, the better. Sharpie markers work well on these cards, too. Pencil holds a nice clear mark that doesn't smear.Felt-tipped pens that are not Sharpies work but need a minute to dry, then don't smear. I tried alcohol-based markers, water-based markers, pigment markers, and oil-based metallic markers. Those all worked with varying amounts of drying time needed. None of them required blotting paper to speed the drying and none smeared after drying. I really liked the metallic oil-based markers and will use them for making borders and maybe even a few highlights in the project images on the cards.The Chinese calligraphy brush and ink pens worked, too, but required care and drying - but as I am a poor calligrapher of that type of brush and ink, it makes no difference to my project.Fountain pens - it depended on the type of ink and the nib - the finer nibs that laid down the least ink did best. broad-nibbed pens left a lot of ink that needed careful blotting. Cartridge inks dried a bit better and faster than bottle inks, so just have plenty of blotting paper to hand and you should be good.Rollerball pens sort of work but the ink skips badly and it takes a minute to dry so you have to be careful of smears and you have to carefully go over what you already did in order to fill in the skips.Ballpoint pens don't work at all - they don't leave ink, not even the skipping that rollerball pens left.I did not test glitter pens. I do not like glitter pens.Me, I am going to lightly mark the cards with pencil (it erases well with a kneadable eraser that leaves no eraser dust behind), then add permanent marking with a 0.38 or finer gel pen, and use the oil-based metallic pens for embellishment.

I use there for my Blooming Creativity class. The students like the hexagon shape and the different finish on each side. They are a bit small, and the glossy side can become an issue if you’re not using the right media…watercolors run too much.After time I’m not sure of the durability if used often.

I really like these and will have a hard time dreaming up uses for all of them the set is so large. I've used sharpies, acrylic paint and paint pens on them with great results. Some other pens smudge, but there are plenty of cards to make a test card before you start your project. The thickness is great.

Going to use these for our current game, will put up one hex for each area explored. Going to need a bunch of these, they're perfect for the job.