Hand-drawn Inspirational Designs most with Scripture references printed on one side of the page

Bless Our Nest Coloring Book:Including Designs for Bible Journaling (Creative Faith)

By: Robin Pickens

Rating: 5 of 5

Bless Our Nest is a Christian inspired set of designs. Some of the designs have Scripture quotes (with cites) and others have inspirational Christian sayings. Some of the words used in the designs can be colored but many are printed in black on white and the coloring is in the design portion rather than the words. I’m not sure which translation the verses come from as there isn’t a copyright statement to that effect.

The back of the design page has questions and suggestions for activities which will lead you in your Christian walk. There are also some smaller coloring elements and journal lines in a very light gray tone.
The designs put the message front and center. The hand-drawn coloring elements support the message either by emphasizing it or bringing the subject of the message to life in illustration. The drawings are detailed and some have intricate areas to color.
There are 32 pages of designs. Twenty one are of full size designs, three are of smaller elements (such as bookmarks, corner illustrations, and gift tags) and eight are of purposefully reduced designs.
The publisher continues to print 8 pages of their books as medium rather than full size (to include information at the bottom which could be printed elsewhere in the book.) As this is something that they are doing with all of their books, I know when I purchase one what to expect.
While it has caused me to buy many less books by this publisher, especially when I know that artist does extremely intricate designs, I won’t detract a star from my rating on this book as I know that the book will contain these smaller than desirable images.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium.
32 pages of Christian based designs
Printed one side of the page back of page has soft gray design, journal lines and thought provoking questions or activities
Paper is medium weight, white, slightly rough and perforated
Glue Binding
Designs stop well before the perforations
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page
Water-based markers leave colorful shadows and bleed through in very noticeable spots.
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on the back of the page and can spot through to the back of the page if applied heavily.
Colored pencils work well with the paper. Both oil and wax based pencils provide good color, layer, and blend well using a blender stick. Hard lead pencils can dent through the page.
I use a blotter page of card stock or heavyweight paper (two sheets) to keep seeping ink and dents from marring the pages below. I recommend using a blotter or that you remove pages before coloring.