Daily Archives: December 13, 2015

This is a beautiful set of postcard size designs. Each design is simply more delightful than the last one. I want to carry this book around with me constantly and color in it. It has birds, geometric patterns, sewing, fruit, flowers, and all sorts of other pretty and fun subjects.

I had never seen any of Beth Gunnell’s designs before, so I was taking a chance with this book and I am glad that I did. After testing this one, I immediately ordered her second book of floral postcards so that I can have one book in my purse and one at home. I really hope she continues with this style of book and maybe some larger format ones, too, that are for adults versus what seems to be her coloring books for young girls.

The designs are, in fact, pre-set up for use as postcards with areas for shipping address, writing area, and stamp on the reverse side of each card. There are even cute little designs on that side as well which you can color with a lick of ink/pencil. The size of the book (and pages) is 7.75 x 4.75 inches.

The designs are printed on one side of heavyweight, frame-able card stock that has a glued edge that makes removal from the book as simple as can be. All you have to do is carefully pull the design away from the edge and it is ready for mailing or framing as you choose. I could easily get this book to lay fairly flat but you can always remove pages for coloring if you wish to do so, too.

This is probably the best paper I have in any of my coloring books, etc. The only thing that bled through these pages were my Copic and Prismacolor alcohol-based markers and those bleed through everything. My Sharpies, both fine and ultra-fine did NOT bleed through and I checked neon, dark, and bright colors as well. None of my water-based marker did either. My gel pens worked great but needed a little more drying time as the ink apparently sat on the surface of this great paper and did not sink into it. My coloring pencils worked fantastic.