National Trust: The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes - Summertime (Colouring Cards and Envelopes Series)

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ColouringInTheMidstOfMadness

The book itself is large at 28cm square, it’s paperback with a flexible card cover with copper foiling lettering and detail. The cards take a surprisingly long time to colour so you get hours and hours of enjoyment from this book and you can really spread the colouring love by posting them coloured or even uncoloured to family and friends. One small gripe I have is that these stickers are arranged in a random order and it’s not clear which card many of them are designed for, with many being suitable for a number of cards which just irks the perfectionist in me.

Sadly, the space left on the front of a few of the envelopes is pretty small and not exactly suitable for a normal length postal address and there is also no space for a postage stamp (I have been contacted by the publisher who has explained that this may well be changed in future reprints so there is a larger space for addresses). comI received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I’ve been having a rough few weeks jam-packed with anxiety and these cards have really helped me to calm down, zone out, and focus on a manageable project which I could colour in sections or larger bits when I was feeling better. Following this are pages of colourable cards with two on each page connected by tabs on perforated pages which are very easy to remove from the book with no issues or bending and a thin strip that the perforation is attached to that you can cut off with scissors to neaten up the card edges. In terms of mental health, I personally found these cards absolutely fantastic. The designs themselves are utterly charming and absolutely adorable.

Inside the front cover are instructions detailing how to fold the envelopes for the cards. The envelopes are printed onto bright white, thick paper which I didn’t experience any bleed through of water-based pens on but did get the lightest of shadowing when I coloured too slowly and the ink saturated the paper a bit much so do please be careful if you’re wanting the inside of your envelopes to remain pristine for colouring too. The line thickness is thin throughout and the images are mostly very intricate and detailed with a few larger spaces on leaves and petals but predominantly each image consists of lots of teeny tiny elements so these cards are definitely for those of you with pretty good vision and fine motor control.

You’ll need pretty good vision and fine motor control to enjoy them but if you have those then you’re sure to love these cards, because apart from the address section being a little small, they’re genuinely perfect! When posting these cards to friends and family I will be popping the whole thing inside a normal envelope so that I can keep the envelope design intact.

The envelopes have illustrations on the front, each of the four flaps, and the whole of the back of the page which makes up the inside of the envelope has a repeating design on it that can be coloured if you wish. The cards feel luxurious and are extremely well made, I couldn’t ask for more from a set of colouring cards, and with an RRP of just £7. This book is fantastically well made and everything has been thought of, matched and produced with quality in mind.

This review is taken from my blog where I review adult colouring books from a mental health perspective. wordpress.