31 Adorable Kitten designs even more detailed than her Cats coloring book printed one side of the page

Creative Haven Creative Kittens Coloring Book (Adult Coloring)

By: Marjorie Sarnat

Rating: 5 of 5

I own a number of Marjorie Sarnat’s coloring books the first of which was her cute Creative Cats. I’ve gone through a couple of copies of that book and was longing for more cute cat designs from Ms. Sarnat. Creative Kittens is an adorable follow-on to the Cats book. It shows a variety of kittens in cute and playful poses.

It reminds me of the four kittens my husband and I rescued and adopted (we also caught their feral mama and neutered and released her back around our house. The kittens were so playful and fun and I get the same feeling from this coloring book.
As with all of Ms. Sarnat’s coloring books, there is a high level of detail. While there are some small areas to color, I don’t consider the designs to be intricate and hard to color.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium.
31 Cute and fun to color kitten designs by Majorie Sarnat
The designs are printed one side of the page
Paper is the usual Creative Haven quality: white, medium weight, slightly rough and has perforated pages.
Glue Binding but with perforated pages so removing a page is fairly simple.
The designs stop well before the perforations and each of the designs has a framing line at the outer edge.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through this paper
Water-based markers bleed through in spots and show colorful shadows on the back of the page
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page. India ink pens can bleed through when I apply more than one layer of ink.
Coloring pencils work well with this paper and even better than many of the more recent Creative Haven coloring books I have bought. I was able to get good pigment (color) lay down, layer the same color and multiple colors and to blend easily using a pencil style blender. I tested both oil and wax-based pencils with similar results. Hard lead pencils, like Verithins, leave dents on the back of the page.
I suggest either removing pages from the book to color or using a blotter page under your working page. I like card stock as it keeps ink from seeping through and damaging the pages below.