Wonderful Christmas
By: Jade Summer
Rating: 5 of 5
This is the second Christmas coloring book to be released by Jade Summer in the last few weeks. I wasn’t sure I was ready for another book if it was similar to the last one. I went ahead and bought it and I am glad I did so.
This coloring books is quite different from the last. It has fewer unique designs but has two copies each of the 25 included.
The designs are focused on people and holiday traditions rather than on trees and gifts and so forth. I can see quite a few images that ring home to me either from when I was a child or now that I have had both children and grandchildren. My favorite is one of the grandpa giving his grandchildren horsey ridges while down on all four. All three generations of my family have had this type of fun.
Santa makes an appearance and there is both a church and a nativity scene. All in all, a great coloring book for the holidays and one that I would leave out for family to color along with me.
The designs are detailed with full background. Some contain small and intricate areas to color but overall, I don’t find it a difficult book to color.
There are two copies of each design included in the book. There are instructions (once you have purchased the book in paper format to be able to download the .pdf version. I think that’s great but I am reviewing based on the paper and the book as you receive it you order the paper version.
This is what I found in this coloring book:
25 x 2 copies each Christmas tradition inspired designs are printed on one side of the page
Paper is typical of KDP (formerly CreateSpace): white, thin, slightly rough and non-perforated. The back of the page is printed black.
The designs do not merge into the binding. There is a heavy framing line at the outer edges of the design to give the project a more finished look, especially for framing.
Glue Binding (there is room to cut the pages out if you choose to do so.)
Though you cannot see the bleed-through easily due to the back of the page being printed in black, I recommend the use of a blotter page when working in this book. I use a page of card stock or several sheets of heavyweight paper under my working page. It keeps seeping ink and marring dents from ruining the pages below.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page quickly.
Water-based markers bleed through in spots.
Gel pens and India ink pens leave shadows on back of the page. India ink can bleed through if you apply heavily or multiple coats.
Coloring Pencils work well with this paper. I found that I could layers the same color for deeper pigment or multiple colors and I could blend easily using a blending stick though a liquid blender works even better (given the heavier black lines). I tested both oil and wax based pencils. I also found that hard lead pencils leave dents through the paper.
Here are some examples from the book:
This is the second Christmas coloring book to be released by Jade Summer in the last few weeks. I wasn’t sure I was ready for another book if it was similar to the last one. I went ahead and bought it and I am glad I did so.
