Cleverpedia + Inkspirations November Coloring Book Giveaway

 

Do you ever flip through a coloring book and have no idea where to begin?

Sometimes there are just so many beautiful pages I just don’t know what to color first. Should I save my favorite pages? Start with them instead? Color my least favorite as a warm up?

Still, not a bad problem to have, all in all. And, it’s one you’ll be having a lot if you win this giveaway!

Scroll to the bottom of this article to enter! This giveaway will be accepting new entries until 11:59pm EST on Saturday, December 3rd, 2016. One lucky winner will be drawn at random on December 4th to receive the prize: 9 Inkspirations coloring book titles totalling over $100 in retail value!

Only valid in the United States due to giveaway laws. No purchase necessary. Winner must respond to an email within three days to claim their prize, or a new winner will be selected.

A huge thank you to the team at Inkspirations for providing the review and giveaway copies for this showcase/giveaway! Also, this page contains some affiliate links. That means that if you buy anything, at no additional cost to you, you’ll be helping support Cleverpedia and my coloring book addition. Thank you so much!

I am so excited to be sharing Inkspirations’ fun and whimsical coloring books with you all again! I first showed off their coloring books back in April, and also interviewed Beth Logan, the illustrator behind Inkspirations in the Garden, this past summer.

Now I am back to share a selection of books from the prize pack they are offering up to one lucky Cleverpedia reader!

Check out the set of prizes and sample pages from the books below, along with my in-depth review of four of the titles. Don’t forget to stick around to enter the giveaway at the very bottom of the page!

Prizes & Detailed Reviews

One lucky winner will receive a prize pack containing a fun selection of nine Inkspirations titles, worth a total retail value of $104.55:

• Inkspirations Color Me Postcards, $9.95 value
• Inkspirations Color Me Greeting Cards, $15.95 value
• Inkspirations Create While You Wait: Coloring on the Go, $12.95 value
• Inkspirations for Christmas Joy, $10.95 value
• Inkspirations Animal Kingdom, $10.95 value
• Inkspirations in the Garden, $10.95 value
• Inkspirations for Cat Lovers or Inkspirations for Dog Lovers, $10.95 value (winner’s choice!)
• Inkspirations for a Happy Heart, $10.95 value
• Inkspirations Fruit of the Spirit, $10.95 value

Check out the details of each book below:

Inkspirations Color Me Postcards

This mini coloring book is actually a pack of 32 coloring postcards on firm cardstock, ready for you to tear out, color, and send. They feature whimsical designs for every occasion, from holidays to birthdays, thank yous to thinking of yous. The back of each postcard features a postcard mailer layout with another small design element to color.

I tried these out with my Tombow Dual Brush Pens, a water-based marker, and the color did not run through to the other side.

Inkspirations Color Me Postcards

The linework in these was thinner than in other Inkspirations books, likely due to the smaller size of the postcards, but I didn’t find that it made it any harder to color. I loved the Christmas and winter themed postcards, but there were a lot of fun ones in here for year-round. It’s a nice collection of coloring postcards and I definitely recommend them!

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This booklet includes a set of 8 glossy greeting cards and envelopes. The glossy outside of the cards is already digitally colored with a whimsical design. The same design is copied inside in black and white on regular card textured paper, ready to color. The paper is thick and stiff, similar to a regular greeting card. The cards span a variety of non-holiday themes, such as “thank you,” “congratulations” and “thinking of you.”

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Inkspirations Create While You Wait: Coloring on the Go

Portable coloring books give you the opportunity to color on the go, and this cute little 5×7″ book is no exception! The designs insides are printed horizontally, with the binding at the top, making the book easy to use for both left and right handed colorists. The binding also allows you to press the book open flat, meaning you’ll never miss part of your design because it was printed into the crease.

The book is 120 pages, printed on both sides, though the reverse of each image is typically just a quote with a border that matches the next page. My Tombow Dual Brush Pens left a shadow on the reverse of the page but did not bleed through all the way; I recommend testing your own markers since your mileage may vary!

The designs in here, all by Judy Clement Wall, are super cute! Plus, the small size made it easy to complete a page in under an hour, perfect for a little stress relief break away from the world!

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Inkspirations for Christmas Joy

I’ve rounded up and written about a number of Christmas coloring books in the past, and I can say with confidence that this is a really nice Christmas coloring book! Featuring the whimsical art of Kristin van Lieshout, there are over 30 designs to color, as well as 12 pages of DIY holiday crafts. These include coloring gift tags, postcards, wine tags, and more! I love that this book offers some different ways to use your Christmas-themed coloring, all inside one book. (Looking for more fun ways to use your colored pages? Check out our list of the best ways to use your finished colored pages here!)

The pages in the larger Inkspirations books are perforated, so it is very easy to tear the one you want to work on out of the book. The binding is also a “lay flat” style binding, though, if you prefer to work in the book!

I colored this image in about an hour and a half. It was fun! I love the ornaments and the mix of Christmas-y elements in a wreath shape. I did notice that a few small lines were missing in the design, which I drew in with a fine Sharpie. (The right bottom edge of the blue/orange ornament and (ugh) the bottom of the left pinecone, which I didn’t do so well haha.)

The paper is a medium weight and very smooth. I’ve noticed that my markers get almost “sucked into” the paper as I color, so the colors end up going on relatively smoothly, with less streakiness than on a rougher paper. My Tombows did bleed through slightly to the opposite side of the page. Fortunately, the back of each page is just a quote page with a matching border, so nothing was impacted.

Overall I really enjoyed this book and I love the DIY projects at the end. I am definitely going to be coloring some gift tags for my family this Christmas!

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Inkspirations Animal Kingdom

Like the book above, this book has about 32 pages of images to color on medium-weight, perforated paper. The reverse of each page features a quote with a decorative, matching border. The binding allows you to lay the book flat, too.

There are a ton of really detailed, patterned animals in this book — it would be fun to pick a small color palette of five to seven colors and then go to town on the patterns! I recommend this Inkspirations book if you love animals.

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Inkspirations in the Garden

I reviewed this book in more detail here when I interviewed Beth Logan. Go ahead and click over to read the full interview and learn more about this book!

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Inkspirations for Cat Lovers

Similar to many of the other Inkspirations books, this coloring book features about 30 feline-themed pages to color. It is printed on a smooth, medium weight, white, perforated paper. The reverse of each page features a quote about cats and a colorable border.

There were a lot of fun designs in this book, but I particularly liked this one, a sort of pop-art style page with four different parts:

The abstract linework really lends itself to some creative color options. I used a combination of my Caran d’Ache Pablos and Tombow dual-ended brush pens. What do you think of my blue cat?

If you love cats, you’ll really enjoy this book. Of course, maybe you prefer dogs — if you win this giveaway, you’ll have a choice between this book and the next one on the list!

(Love cats? Check out more coloring books for cat lovers here!)

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Inkspirations for Dog Lovers

This book is similar to the one above — except featuring dogs, of course! There are around 30 pages to color, featuring a variety of breeds, such as poodles, German shephards, shih tzus, bulldogs, pomeranians, Siberian huskies, boxers, pugs, golden retrievers, and more. Like the book above, the paper is white, medium-weight, and smooth to the touch. The pages are perforated and the book has lay-flat binding.

(Love dogs? Check out more coloring books for dog lovers here!)

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Inkspirations for a Happy Heart

This book has similar features and form factor to the other full-size Inkspirations coloring books in this list! I love the artwork, which is by Diane Yi and very intricate! If you love the preview images above, hop over to Amazon to check out more previews by clicking the links above.

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Inkspirations Fruit of the Spirit

This book has many of the same features as the books above. The subject of this title is more spiritual and faith-based, including bible verses and images with Christian messages. Regardless of your religious affiliation, the artwork is lovely — just look at that gorgeous mandala!

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IT’S GIVEAWAY TIME! Enter to win over $100 of coloring books from Inkspirations!

In this month-long giveaway, one lucky winner will recieve a prize pack of nine Inkspirations titles, valued over $100. Entries will accepted until 11:59pm EST on Saturday, December 3rd, 2016. The winner will be drawn at random on December 4th, and will have three days to respond to the win announcement email before a new winner is drawn. Sorry, United States entrants only (if the laws weren’t so complicated, I would definitely open this thing up more!).

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