Wonderful Designs and Beautifully made printed on one side of heavyweight perforated paper

This is a wonderful book filled with many Christian-based designs. I also want to mention immediately that it is one of the best made coloring books that I have purchased but more about that later. The actual designs have a beautiful, hand-drawn sketch look and feel to them. In addition to the 50 designs, there are bookmarks and cards you can color and cut out.

The book is definitely geared towards females as all the figures in the book are girls. However, many of the designs can easily be colored by all as they are gender neutral. My husband colors as well and he likes many of the designs in this book, too.

What I love about the book is that almost every one of the designs is Christian-based. Many Christian coloring books only devote one third or so of the design pages to providing a Christian message. This one is packed full of designs meant to inspire and encourage. While it may have been meant for a younger target audience, I find that as an adult, I am happy to color these designs as well.

The book is very well made. The cover is extremely strong hardboard. It is printed on one side only of heavyweight perforated paper. The binding is at the top and is spiral bound. The print quality is excellent and dark. I really appreciate this binding as you can flip to any page and have access to the entire design. The cover then becomes a portable desk which allows you to color easily when on-the-go. While I am not a lefty, spiral bound works fantastic for them as they don’t have to color over the hump of the binding. A few of the designs extend beyond the perforations, which is a little frustrating. I won’t remove these from the book as I will lose a bit of the design if I do. This could be easily solved in future additions to this series by sizing the design to fit below the perforations.

This is printed on fantastic paper. None of my markers bled through and that includes all of my alcohol-based markers. Gel pens worked fantastic as well and did not bleed through or leave shadows at the back. Coloring pencils worked nicely as well and behaved according to their type of lead (soft/hard core.)

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:

Markers: 1) alcohol-based Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, Staedler triplus fineliners, and Pentel markers

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo 0.38/0.28 and Tekwriter

Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castel Polychromos