Creative Haven Glorious Gardens Color by Number Coloring Book (Adult Coloring Books: Flowers & Plants) Paperback – Coloring Book, October 16, 2019

The designs in this book are charmingly sweet and relaxing to color. Some claim that color-by-number books discourage spontaneity and creativity. I beg to differ. I love this book. I love choosing between colored pencils, gel pens, and markers of various widths. I love the feeling of starting on a new number, and I also love keeping track of the materials I've associated with each number so far. When everything else in life seems uncertain, this book provides a clear and fulfilling sense of direction. Five stars!

The pictures are great! the numbers are small. I'm not sure yet how to tackle the pictures. I might end up buying a magnifying glass so I can read the numbers. I do love the book a lot. Very detailed.

Love the pictures. One think I did not like is that the numbers of the color to use is way to little. I have to struggle to see what the number is and have to use extra lighting to do so.

This is my first color by number book and I've been enjoying it. Would be great if it came with its own set of pencils, since I've had some trouble finding good matches among my existing pencils, particularly for the 'beige' v 'light brown,' and 'yellow green' v 'light green' colors. I tend to color in most of the supposedly 'white' spaces. For the 'shaded' spaces, I usually have used a blackish-green, since most of the 'shaded' spaces are in the midst of other greens. The numbers are extremely tiny and light--fortunately I had a good magnifying glass on hand.

As expected, great paper quality.

It has lovely scenes and will be a great book to work on. It has very detailed pictures which will be a challenge.

Beautiful color by number book but pictures are super detailed. I sharpened my pencils as sharp as possible and it was still hard getting into the small spaces, without going over the lines. Really love it but this will have to be an "every once in a long while" coloring book :)

The artwork is really lovely, but on my first page, I've already noticed more than 7 errors like one area having multiple numbers (because of a missing dividing line between the two numbers), an incorrect number (using the colored preview images as a reference for where colors are supposed to be), or just missing numbers all together. There's a note in the tips and tricks section that says that some areas won't have a number because the details are too small or too fine to fit a number, but I've found several areas that very clearly would have fit a number but just didn't have one.For the most part I've been able to figure out my way around using the colored preview images, but I got a color by number book specifically so that I wouldn't have to think too hard about the coloring—this is supposed to be a stress reduction activity for me. So it's frustrating having to spend time and mental effort to make sure everything is where it's supposed to be.I'm using marker pens to outline some larger areas of color so I know relatively where colors should start and stop. The pens bleed through to the back somewhat but not enough to mark the next page. Still, I've taken to keeping a piece of cardstock behind my working page to protect the page behind it.The paper quality is relatively thick and nice but even using colored pencils to fill in color, I have one spot that began to pill up and produce unwanted textures on the page.I also wish the color palette list was a detachable piece so you can have it next to your working page all the time. I just made my own so I wouldn't have to keep flipping back to the front cover to reference the list.All of these things said, I've been enjoying myself and the illustrations really are lovely and engaging. I'll definitely continue to use this book and hope for some fixes for future books from this series!