Beautiful Christian Christmas Coloring Book More than 45 designs printed on one side of non-perforated page

This is an absolutely beautiful adult coloring book for celebrating the birth of Christ. The artist, Pamela Thayer, has taken verses from the King James Version as well as from well-known Christmas hymns and has drawn her visual interpretation of them in great line drawings that will be a joy to color. The lovely designs and the words speak to the heart and remind me what the holiday season is truly about. I know that this will be my go-to book this year when the holiday rush leaves me feeling a little overwhelmed.

The book is printed on one side of non-perforated white paper. The vast majority of the designs have a frame around the design to provide me, as a colorist, an ending point. I really like when this is done as I am not left hanging with open elements that I somehow have to finish without an edge. The few that do not have the frame have definite stopping points on all parts of the line drawing. The designs stop well before the glued bound edge. You can remove pages if you wish with a penknife but I was able to break the binding enough to get the book to lie flat.

All of my markers and gel pens leaked through the paper. My colored pencils worked well with the paper. If I am going to use markers and gel pens (which I will), I will put card stock or chipboard or other heavyweight paper behind the page I am working on to keep ink from seeping further and ruining other pages.

I really appreciate the new move of Christian adult coloring books. They are truly my favorite and give me so much to meditate on while I am coloring. Coloring is a relaxing hobby but coloring in Christmas books both relaxes me and provides me a renewed spirit.

This last note is more for the artist and publisher and I am going to try to start including this at the bottom of my reviews from this point forward:

This book could physically have been improved by a adding perforated pages to make it easy to remove a page. The paper grade could have been improved but as you printed one-sided, the grade of paper used works well if the colorist remembers to put a page behind their work.