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Bless Your Heart Adult Coloring Book: Favorite Southern Sayings (Coloring Faith)

By: Thomas Nelson

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a really cute coloring book with lots of Southern Sayings. Some are familiar to me, such as the dreaded Bless Your Heart and others were new to me, such as She could start an argument in an empty house. Familiar or new, they were mostly funny and sometimes thought-provoking. There is a great map of the South with flowers and other doodles decorating each state. The saying with that design is You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl.

The designs are all really well drawn and will be fun and sometimes challenging to color. All are detailed and some have intricate and small areas to color.
Because of the publisher, Thomas Nelson, I was expecting that this coloring book would be Christian in nature. It is not, it is secular but it is definitely geared for those who love the South.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium.
93 pages of cute and detailed designs based on Southern sayings
Printed on both sides of the page. Most designs are printed on a single page with only two as two-page spreads.
Paper is heavy weight, white, slightly rough and perforated
Glue Binding
Many designs cross over the perforations; however, the two two-page designs stop short of the perforations.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper. If you use this coloring medium, it will seep through and mar the design on the back of the page.
Water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink pens did not bleed through the paper but, in some cases, did leave slight shadows on the back of the page.
Colored pencils worked really well with the paper. The slightly rough texture of the paper provided good tooth which allowed pigment to easily adhere to the page. I tested both oil and wax based pencils and both worked well. I could layer the same color for deeper pigment, layer multiple colors and blend easily using a pencil style blender stick.