Dissappointing and odd
I very much like the mandala designs and the size of the postcards but the paper has some kind of  coating that I don't like at all!  I used prismatic pencils and the color will lay but not well.  The super smooth slightly glossy paper has no tooth and the colored pencil lays on it like cheap waxy crayon.  It doesn't allow for depth of color or shading in the way a more absorbent paper does.  Even with very light layers the pencil sort of balls up or pills on the surface.  And it's smears.  The only useful thing about this is that it's fairly easy to get a smooth field with few unwanted streaks.  But considering the cost of these 6 postcards  I am extremely disappointed in them.<br />I definitely would not have bought them if I'd known about the coating on the surface of the paper.  A minor consideration too, the designs are ever so slightly raised up from the card.  When I run my finger across the pattern is easily felt.  It's odd and I am wondering if I use alcohol markers if the lines of the design will dissolve or lift off.
Rating: 2 stars