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Life is a wonderful adventure, and all of our dreams can
come true! Hold on to your dreams with Creative Coloring
Inspirations
, the coloring book that offers hope and encouragement
on every page. Inside you'll find:

  • 30 ready-to-color art
    activities
    designed to stimulate your
    spirit
  • Beginner-friendly tips on color ideas and color
    theory
  • Beautifully colored examples of finished work from
    Marie Browning and others, to help encourage your
    creativity
  • High-quality, extra-thick paper won't bleed
    through
  • Perforated pages for easy removal and display or
    gifting

Team up with talented artist Valentina Harper as
you personalize her exquisite line drawings. Valentina combines
exhilarating words with flowing, intricate, and highly detailed
patterns. Best-selling craft author Marie Browning joins in with
beautifully colored examples of finished work.

This sophisticated
coloring book opens up a fantastic world of rich, intricate patterns.
You don't need to have the skills of an artist to enjoy these relaxing
and creative activities.

Valentina Harper's flowing, fantastical,
and dreamlike drawings invite you to lose yourself in amazingly
therapeutic interactive art. This book includes valuable tips on
Valentina's distinctive, easy-to-learn patterning
techniques.

Printed on high quality extra-thick paper, Creative
Coloring Inspirations
is perfect for decorating with colored
pencils, gel pens, watercolors, and more. Designed to eliminate
bleed-through, each page is pre-perforated for easy removal and
display.

A fun way to exercise your creativity, these books
provide the perfect excuse to get out your markers and feel like a kid
again!


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Reviews for Creative Coloring Inspirations: Art Activity Pages to Relax and Enjoy! (Design Originals) 30 Motivating & Creative Art Activities on High-Quality, Extra-Thick Perforated Pages that Won't Bleed Through:

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Dec 27, 2014

The adult colouring craze has become a big deal recently, so I thought I would see what it's all about. GMC Distributions sent me a copy of Creative Coloring Inspirations by Valentina Harper, from Design Originals, to review.

There are four colouring books in the Creative Coloring series; as well as Inspirations, there's also Flowers, Animals and Mandalas. I love a good inspirational quote, so I went with this colouring book hoping that, as well as having the calming and stress relieving affect The adult colouring craze has become a big deal recently, so I thought I would see what it's all about. GMC Distributions sent me a copy of Creative Coloring Inspirations by Valentina Harper, from Design Originals, to review.

There are four colouring books in the Creative Coloring series; as well as Inspirations, there's also Flowers, Animals and Mandalas. I love a good inspirational quote, so I went with this colouring book hoping that, as well as having the calming and stress relieving affect colouring is supposed to have, the quotes would give me something additional to smile over.

The colouring book starts off with some notes and tips from Harper. Over and again she emphasises that there is no right or wrong way to colour in, and we are free to experiment and try different things with our colouring - something I was quite pleased with; having not coloured since I was a child, and seeing just how amazing some people can colour in (seriously, just look up #adultcolouring on Instagram and prepare to be amazed!), I was feeling a little disheartened, knowing I'm not that good. So I was glad to be reminded that whatever the result of my colouring, all that mattered was that I had fun with it.

Harper goes through the different media that can be used, and shows how each would turn out, to help you decide which look you want to go for, and which medium to use.




She then discusses basic colour ideas, and different ways to colour in the shapes in her illustrations, helping you choose which you prefer.




Harper talks you through basic colour tips, going through the primary, secondary and tertiary colours, and different combinations that work together - or contrasting colours depending on the affect you're after.




And then we have some examples of Harper's illustrations coloured in by fellow artist and author, Marie Browning. Here are two examples







With each example, we're told not only what media was used, but what makes, as well as the kind of tones Browning went for.

And then it's on to choose which illustrations you would like to colour. Originally, I was a bit daunted by some of the illustrations, because they were quite detailed, busy and complicated. For me, this seemed the opposite of calming and stress-relieving, seeming a bit chaotic and the tiny shapes would do my eyes in, causing me to have trouble focusing on the image. But for those wanting to challenge themselves, they're great. Fortunately, for those of us who are newbies just starting with adult colouring, there are smaller, simpler, cleaner illustrations to get going with.







The inspirational words to colour are pretty great, a nice little reminder while you're colouring to keep you chin up and remember the good things in life. Each page is perforated, so once you're done, you can pull them out to hang up, put on your fridge or share with a friend. On the reverse of each page, there is an inspiring quote by various well known people, giving you a reason to pause, reflect, and smile.




After flicking through, I decided on an illustration to colour and got to it. I didn't realise just how long it would take! I got engrossed in what I was doing, and time flew by without me realising.




If you're going to colour, you really need to have a spare few hours in which to do it in. I kept thinking about how it was taking so long, and how I was hoping to do some reading, but that didn't look like it was going to happen, and so I tried to be quicker - until I decided to stop for the day, as it started to feel slightly like a chore.




But by the time I finished it the next day, I found I enjoyed the whole experience. I'll just have to make sure I have more time to simply colour next time.



Please excuse the smudges.

I used the advice Harper gave to try and see what worked for me. I both coloured individual shapes in different colours and I coloured some sections all the same colour. Some of my art lessons from school came back to me, such as things on tone and shading, though I forgot until later that it's better to start from the top left and work your way down and to the right to stop smudging what you've already coloured with your hand when colouring elsewhere. So yeah, a few mistakes there which you can see. But I'm generally quite happy with what I did, and really enjoyed it!

Despite how much I enjoyed it, while flicking through, I did feel that the illustrations where kind of samey; although the illustrations as a whole were each very different, the patterns used - especially all the circles - were repeated too often for my liking. Although I'd be colouring a different illustration, I'd still be colouring the same patterns, and I think I'd get a lit bit tired of the same thing over and over. It's great to have to dip in and out of, but I don't hink it's the kind of book I'd enjoy completing all at once.

Creative Coloring Inspirations is a great and enjoyable colouring book, with great tips and ideas to inspire and encourage experimentation as you colour.

Thank you to Design Originals and GMC Distribution for the review copy. ...more
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Oct 23, 2015

I just started adult coloring and this was my first book but it was definitely a good one to get hooked on, as I have already ordered several other ones. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone who is stressed or just likes to color. The pictures are so beautiful and you can make them as easy or as difficult as you want them because there are so many little circles and spaces that you can either color the same color or mix up. The pages are pretty thick and work well with colored I just started adult coloring and this was my first book but it was definitely a good one to get hooked on, as I have already ordered several other ones. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone who is stressed or just likes to color. The pictures are so beautiful and you can make them as easy or as difficult as you want them because there are so many little circles and spaces that you can either color the same color or mix up. The pages are pretty thick and work well with colored pencils, crayons, or thin markers. I have not tried gel pens, but heard they work well also. One idea I had was to buy another copy after I finish this book and maybe a few others, just to see how much I have grown as an artist. This book made me believe in art therapy and I am more excited than I have been in a long time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :) ...more
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Apr 17, 2016

Inspirational and motivational sayings--fun to color, and keep- they make my day every time I see them again. I've even posted one (it's not even finished) at the back of a workbook that I use regularly. Just seeing it in my morning work pile, or lying on the seat next to me in the car makes me smile!

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