20 Lovely Postcard Designs by Hanna Karlzon printed one side of the card stock with address/stamp area on back

By: Hanna Karlzon

Rating: 5 of 5

I recently discovered Hanna Karlzon’s amazing coloring books and have purchased those that are currently available. While I am enjoying using colored pencils in her regular coloring books, I have not been able to use the alcohol-based markers I so enjoy. These postcards are printed essentially one-sided so I purchased this set which will allow me to use my markers without damaging a design on the back of the page.

I am really enjoying Ms Karlzon’s imaginative world of flowers, birds, insects and animals that inhabit the pages of these postcards. I hope she considers doing another set of postcards which include some of the lovely people that inhabit her books as well.

While a few of the postcards in this set are sized down from the original designs in the coloring book by the same name (Daydreams) most are cropped down to fit the postcard format rather than reduced in size. That makes it much easier to color without having to resort to smaller size nibs. In the first designs I did in this set, I used alcohol-based markers such as fine and ultra-fine nib Sharpies, Bic Mark-its and the brush end of Copic markers.

This is what I experienced while coloring these postcards and testing the paper with my coloring medium.

20 Daydream designs sized for postcard format with mailing areas defined on the back of the card

Printed on one side of the card

Paper is heavyweight card stock in smooth ivory

Glue bound but in the style of easy to remove pages such as a notepad

Alcohol-based markers left colorful shadows on the back of the page and only one had the tiniest bit of spot through. I would put a blotter page of paper under my working page or remove the card from the book to color to keep the designs below safe from the slight possibility of seeping ink

Water-based markers, India ink, and gel pens did not bleed through the card. Gel pens took a little longer to dry than usual.

Colored pencils worked well with this paper. Oil and wax-based pencils worked well with good color, layering, and blending using a pencil style blending stick.