20 Card style stock images designs from the Today is a Great Day coloring book – designs printed on one side

Today is a going to be A Great Day Cards

By: Christian Art Gifts

Rating: 4 of 5

This is a set of 20 cards which are a small portion of the designs from the larger coloring book by the same name. I don’t own that book, so I can’t speak for it. However, this book has no original designs. They are all stock images licensed from Shutterstock. They may have words and verses added but I can’t verify that those are from this publisher.

The designs are nice and most are Christian-based. A few are more general inspirational statements. The designs are generally detailed and have smaller elements to color. That is par for the course with small card interpretations. Fitting on the small page what originally fit on a larger page will shrink the elements quite small.

I like the book and will certainly color a few but most will pass to others. Actually, using the color cards as part of a gift isn’t a bad idea. They don’t need to be colored. You can include the card and a small set of ten or so pencils or markers for the individual to enjoy coloring.

This is what I found in this coloring book

Paper is medium weight card stock, white, smooth, and non-perforated

Glue bound (note pad style) so pages can easily be remove

Designs are printed on one side with a simple edge style design on the back

Some designs reach to the binding area but it is easily to color the full design

This book can be opened to a fairly flat but in doing so you may inadvertently start breaking the notepad edge binding.

Alcohol-based markers show color on the back of the page.

Water-based markers, gel pens and India ink pens do not bleed through the page.

Colored pencils do okay with this paper. It very little tooth and both oil and wax-based pencils perform about the same. I could get okay coverage but blending and layering were about what one would expect from smooth paper with no tooth. I much preferred using other medium on these designs.

Here are some sample photos from the book:

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