The cardboard is the colour in the image above, but it can be painted, stamped, inked or dyed any color or colors you like!! You can use the little letter parts you punch out of the stencils, too!

They come packaged as complete alphabet (upper case only) with numbers and some punctuation, with an extra A, E, O, R and S in each package (except for the 1/2" size, which for some reason doesn't include those extra letters).

** Size listed is the size of the actual letter, and as you can see, the cardboard extends around the letter on all sides **