24 Fun and Festive Christmas and New Year Designs printed on one side of non-perforated paper

This is a coloring book of primarily Christmas designs at an excellent price. There are a couple of ones dedicated to New Year and another few that are sort of winter type designs. As Christmas is my favorite time of year, this is a fun book for me to color. A lot of the designs are of Christmas trees but there are others of reindeer, ornaments, presents, stockings, etc. I like that a number of the designs are scenes (both indoors and outdoors.)

All of the design stop well before the binding. The designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper that is typical for books published by CreateSpace. The binding is glued but there is plenty of room for you to cut a page out if you choose to do so. The artist has put a frame around each design, which I really appreciate. The frame is either a plain line or the words Merry Christmas Happy New Year repeated over and over again, a fun touch that is out of the ordinary. It gives me a proper stopping point while I am coloring.

All of my markers bleed through and my gel pens either bleed through or leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper. I will use a piece of chipboard or heavy paper behind the page I am working on so I don’t ruin the following page with leaking ink.

While I could wish for thicker, perforated paper, it appears that this is the quality that comes from CreateSpace (which is an Amazon company.) What I really like about the CreateSpace is it is a way that independent artists can get their work self-published. That way, I get a huge choice of design styles albeit with not the best paper.