First off, Absinthe has a thicker stock, second they are new so you need to break them in to make them less stiff. You can find tutorials online but simply just use them a lot.
Send your deck design to USPCC and they will print it for you. The quality will be about the same as bikes. Once you make a couple create a kickstarted page and get funding for 1-5k which will let you control the quality of the cards a bit more.