45 Sweet, Cute and Easy to Color Bible-Inspired Designs – printed on one side of paper

Colorful Blessings: A Coloring Book for Grown-Up Girls from The Coloring Cafe

By: Ronnie Walter

Rating: 5 of 5

I own a number of The Coloring Cafe coloring books and I love to color in them. They are cute and easy to color. I can usually finish one easily in an afternoon. Colorful Blessings is a newer coloring book in the series. What I absolutely love about this coloring book is that it is spiral bound. I can flip the pages around and get the page I am working on to lie perfectly flat.

The designs feature a Bible verse as well as the cite so you can look it up for yourself. I don’t see a translation mentioned in the book so I can’t say for sure which it is. The designs are open and easy to color. I don’t have to finagle small points into even smaller spaces with this book. I can have fun with whatever medium suits my temperament on a given day.

For my first project, I choose to use a mixture of Sharpie and Bic Mark-it alcohol-based markers. I was happy that the paper didn’t feather the ink outside of the lines and will certainly use my markers with this book again (see medium discussion below.)

I will provide details about the book below for those interested, but here is an overview of what I found:

45 Bible inspired cute designs
Designs are printed on one side of non-perforated white page
Spiral bound
Alcohol-based markers bleed through page
Water-based markers and India ink pens leave shadows of color on back of page
Gel pens work well but need a little extra drying time
Coloring pencils work well with this paper

The designs in this book are printed on one side of the white non-perforated page. On the reverse side of almost all of them, there is a cute little drawing. If you use a medium that doesn’t leak through, you can color that as well. The binding is spiral. The designs do not merge into the binding. You have plenty of room to cut the design out, in fact, there is a cutting line already printed on the page.

The design elements are all either finished or the design has a framing line around it. I really appreciate it when I am not left with unfinished dangling elements that I have to try to end properly. I always try to mention when an artist includes this thoughtful feature. It saves me time, trouble, and ink.

I test my coloring books with various mediums (which I will list in the comments section below.) Here are the results of my test on this book:

Alcohol-based markers bleed right through the page. Water-based markers and Ink ink leave color shadows on the backside of the page (Tombows actually bled through in tiny spots.) Gel pens work really well but require a little extra drying time. Coloring pencils work well. The soft lead pencils go on fairly thick and blend well. The hard lead pencils left dents on the backside of the page.

Because of the leak-through, I used and recommend using a blotter page of heavier weight paper or card stock with this book. It will keep the rest of the book in good shape safe from marring dents and leaking ink.