50 Great Saying Designs with cute designs printed on one side of the page

This is a coloring book of Sayings designs by Samantha Snyder. I have a couple other of her coloring books but this is the first time I have tried one that is primarily words with designs drawn to support them. All of the sayings in the book are uplifting ones which talk to improving the way you look at life in order for life to be better. I found the designs both fun and quick to color. I enjoyed the experience and walked away from coloring each design with a better attitude about things that were troubling me.

The coloring book is a smaller format book which is typical for Ms. Snyder’s coloring books. The designs are printed on one side of bright white non-perforated paper. The designs are centered well on the page and the print quality is excellent. The binding is glued rather than sewn so you will have to cut out pages if you want to remove them from the book. By breaking the spine a bit, I was able to get the book to lay flat. I really appreciate that the artist has included a framing line around each design. That gives me a stopping point and saves me time and ink if I choose to color in the background of a designs.

All of my markers (water and alcohol-based) and India ink artist pens bleed through the paper. My various gel pens all left a shadow of color on the back of the page. My coloring pencils worked well for their lead type. The soft lead blended really well. The hard lead left indents at the page of the page if I pressed hard when coloring. I used a blotter page of card stock with working with any medium to protect the rest of the book from seeping ink or being marred by indents from my pencils.

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. While I did not specifically test Marco Raffine coloring pencils with the book, I did complete one design with the pencils when I was testing the pencils. 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) Bic Mark-its (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, and Staedler triplus fineliners

India Ink: Faber-Castell PITT artist pens (brush tip)

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo in the following sizes – 0.28/0.38/0.5/1.0 and Tekwriter

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

I was provided a sample copy of this coloring book for test and review purposes.