Pretty Flower Postcards
By: Beth Gunnell
Rating: 5 of 5
This is my second set of coloring book postcards by this artist. The first one is Pretty Pattern Postcards and I was so impressed by that book, I had to buy this one as soon as I saw it was available. I am a gardener and I love to color flowers, especially during the more barren months of the year. I get to color the flowers that I imagine I will have in my garden later in the year or make up colors of flowers that simply don’t exist I nature.
I am very impressed with this artist’s style and with the publishing quality of these books. 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 size makes it perfect to carry in a purse or satchel.
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.
The paper used in these postcard books 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.