Colorful Blessings: A Coloring Book for Grown-Up Girls from The Coloring Cafe
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Colorful Blessings: A Coloring Book for Grown-Up Girls from The Coloring Cafe Details
A perfect way to melt away the stress and reflect upon your faith, these 45 engaging illustrations drawn by talented artist, Ronnie Walter, accompany favorite Bible verses and inspirational messages. They will bring hours of creative relaxation into your life while lifting your spirits. Coloring is a great way to take advantage of a quiet moment. Or, better yet, gather up your friends for a fun get-together. Whether using colored pencils, markers or watercolors, let these pages spark your creativity as you find joy in the simple pleasure of coloring. Bound with plastic coil, these books can be laid flat for easy coloring, and pages can be removed effortlessly. Once you get started, you won't want to stop! The Coloring Café Collection Includes: Color My Heart Happy ISBN - 9781563835575 It s A Girl Thing ISBN - 9781563835582 Colorful Blessings ISBN - 9781563835599 Life is Delicious ISBN - 9781563835605 Happy Everything ISBN - 9781563835148 Kindness Matters ISBN - 9781563835155 My Cup Runneth Over ISBN - 9781563835902 Relax, Unwind & Color ISBN - 9781563835919 Be the Sunshine ISBN - 9781563836053 Home is Where It All Begins ISBN - 9781563836060 Cardlets: 30 Mini Birthday ISBN - 9781563835018 Cardlets: 30 Mini All Occasion ISBN - 9781563835025 Cardlets: 30 Mini Scripture ISBN - 9781563835032 God s Graces A Coloring Journal ISBN - 9781563835537 Life in Color A Coloring Journal ISBN - 9781563835544
Reviews
I own a number of The Coloring Cafe coloring books and I love to color in them. They are cute and easy to color. I can usually finish one easily in an afternoon. “Colorful Blessings” is a newer coloring book in the series. What I absolutely love about this coloring book is that it is spiral bound. I can flip the pages around and get the page I am working on to lie perfectly flat.The designs feature a Bible verse as well as the cite so you can look it up for yourself. I don't see a translation mentioned in the book so I can't say for sure which it is. The designs are open and easy to color. I don't have to finagle small points into even smaller spaces with this book. I can have fun with whatever medium suits my temperament on a given day.For my first project, I choose to use a mixture of Sharpie and Bic Mark-it alcohol-based markers. I was happy that the paper didn't feather the ink outside of the lines and will certainly use my markers with this book again (see medium discussion below.)I will provide details about the book below for those interested, but here is an overview of what I found:45 Bible inspired cute designsDesigns are printed on one side of non-perforated white pageSpiral boundAlcohol-based markers bleed through pageWater-based markers and India ink pens leave shadows of color on back of pageGel pens work well but need a little extra drying timeColoring pencils work well with this paperThe designs in this book are printed on one side of the white non-perforated page. On the reverse side of almost all of them, there is a cute little drawing. If you use a medium that doesn't leak through, you can color that as well. The binding is spiral. The designs do not merge into the binding. You have plenty of room to cut the design out, in fact, there is a cutting line already printed on the page.The design elements are all either finished or the design has a framing line around it. I really appreciate it when I am not left with unfinished dangling elements that I have to try to end properly. I always try to mention when an artist includes this thoughtful feature. It saves me time, trouble, and ink.I test my coloring books with various mediums (which I will list in the comments section below.) Here are the results of my test on this book:Alcohol-based markers bleed right through the page. Water-based markers and Ink ink leave color shadows on the backside of the page (Tombows actually bled through in tiny spots.) Gel pens work really well but require a little extra drying time. Coloring pencils work well. The soft lead pencils go on fairly thick and blend well. The hard lead pencils left dents on the backside of the page.Because of the leak-through, I used and recommend using a blotter page of heavier weight paper or card stock with this book. It will keep the rest of the book in good shape – safe from marring dents and leaking ink.
