Mary Engelbreit’s Color ME Christmas Book of Postcards
By: Mary Engelbreit
Rating: 5 of 5
The postcards are preset to be used as such (with mailing address lines, etc. on the back of the card) and the gift tags and ornaments are printed on both sides of the page so there isn’t a colored side and a blank side you can color both or fill in names, etc. You will have to cut these items out of the page but there is a heavy black outer line that will make this a fairy easy task.
A number of the designs are scaled down in size to fit the smaller postcard size format. Because of that there are a number which have intricate and small areas to color. I will be using fairly sharp pencils and ultra-fine or brush markers and small nib gel pens to color much of the designs. Because some of the designs are quite intricate, the set may prove challenging for those who have issues with vision and fine motor skills.
I was so happy that I could use markers without worry of bleed-through. I don’t use most of my postcards as such. Instead, I will mount them on folded blank note cards or frame them as gifts.
This is what I found while coloring in this set of cards and testing my coloring medium on the card stock.
Fun Christmas designs based on the artwork of Mary Engelbreit in postcard size format
Printed on one side of card stock
Card stock is white, heavyweight and slightly rough
Glue binding (in the sense of a notepad where pages can easily be removed in whole.
Back is printed for use as applicable for postcards, gift tags or ornaments.
Alcohol-based markers, water-based markers, gel pens, and India ink artist pens do not bleed through this card stock.
Colored pencils worked well. Both wax and oil based pencils provided good color, layered, and blended well using a pencil style blending stick. Hard lead pencils provide deep and crisp color.