Creative Haven Merry Christmas Designs Coloring Book (Adult Coloring Books: Christmas)

The media could not be loaded.  The Christmas season is my favorite of the year. I like to do all sorts of crafts and coloring Christmas designs is something I really enjoy. “Merry Christmas Designs” is by artist Suzanne Anoushian who is new to me. The designs range from Santas to Christmas trees to elves, wreathes, stockings and all sorts of things I think of for the season. Each of the designs also provide information, songs, or even stories that relate to Christmas as well.I chose to do a design based on glass ornaments as I like to collect a wide variety of ornaments, including vintage glass ones. I had a lot of fun using both markers and gel pens (especially ones with glitter and metallic looks.) I'll post a photo of my first project as well as samples from the book.The designs have a sketch-style look to them. Even the words look hand written in very neat penmanship. The designs are detailed though not what I would call intricate to color.This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper. I will list, in the comments section below, the coloring medium I use for testing and for most of my coloring projects.31 hand-drawn Christmas inspired designs with lots of Christmas informationDesigns are printed one side of the pagePaper is white, medium weight, slightly smooth and has perforated pages.Glue Binding with perforations so you can remove them one at a time.The designs stop well before the perforationsAlcohol-based markers bleed through this paperWater-based markers bleed through with colorful spots and shadows on the back of the pageGel pens and India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page. India ink pens can bleed through when I use more than one layer of color.Coloring pencils work well with this paper. I was able to use both wax and oil based pencils equally well. I was able to get good color and to get deeper pigment by layering the same color. I found that I could layer multiple colors and blend easily using a pencil style blending stick. Hard lead pencils leave dents on the back of the page.I generally prefer to use a blotter page under my working page to keep ink from seeping through but you can also remove pages from the book to color. I like card stock for my blotter page but a couple of sheets of heavyweight paper works as well.

this is a really nice book I love the image of the bubble lights in it very simple designs and fun

Love this book its simple fun and easy to color if your looking for a simple Christmas book to purchase

I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed in this one. The paper quality is good and it is printed on only one side so it can easily be colored with markers without issue. However, the artwork in this book is somewhat lacking. On some pages, there is very little to color. I don't think there is a single page that I really liked...Cute concept bit the execution could have been much better.

I waited for Turkey Day to finish so I could break out my Christmas coloring books, my fave time of year-when I realized I didn't have any! Thanks to Dovers weekly samplers I found this book & was in LOVE! This was truly the only book I colored from this holiday season! Enjoy...& Color On Friends!!!

In all honesty, it looks like this coloring book was sketched by someone in 5 minutes. The lines are choppy and not straight and it just seems to lack thought. With that being said, it makes up for that with the information included as far as the recipes and origin information on common Christmas items/traditions. So in the end it is definitely worth the $3 and change.

This is a very sweet Christmas themed coloring book. The pictures are printed one per page and are perforated for easy removal. They range in complexity from very detailed to pretty simple. Paper quality is good as are all of Creative Haven books. I really like this book!

I have several Christmas themed coloring books but this one is one of my faves. It has just the right amount of small and medium details to color. It also includes fun facts on each picture.

Great colouring book :D

Donated to School they love the detailed colouring pages.