Craft Books and 2018 Calendars Review & Giveaway (ARV $67) {Hello Autumn Giveaway Hop}
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Craft Books and 2018 Calendars Review & Giveaway (ARV $67) {Hello Autumn Giveaway Hop}

Do you love to color and decorate? Would you like to give your brain some good workout by solving complex puzzles? Are you ready for a better organized year ahead? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, you sure don't want to miss the fun craft books and calendars I'm going to introduce to you today.


Brain Bend: Extreme Architecture Mazes to Decode and Color by Mister Mourao
Rockport Publishers | USD: $15.99

Brain Bend is a unique book featuring 25 wild, vibrant, architecturally themed mazes, along with black-and-white versions of the same artwork for coloring in. The stunning, mind-bending designs, range in style from joyfully freeform to impressively structured, offer a stimulating visual challenge to maze and coloring enthusiasts. It also includes maze solutions at the back of the book. And the perforated pages make it easy to remove the designs, and high-quality, heavy, uncoated paper make them a pleasure to solve and color.

This is such a brilliant book which combines the fun of coloring and maze solving! I have never seen anything like it before. Visually compelling and challenging, each maze features various architectural shapes and structures drawn in 3D. The author provides three versions for each maze: fully colored, partially colored, and black-and-white. The fully colored versions are provided by the author as inspiration for coloring the templates; the partially colored version makes it easier to solve the maze; and the black-and-white version opens up all possibilities for creativity. The book also includes two fold-out pages with mega mazes. Offering hours of creative and entertaining activities, Brain Bend is an excellent book for both children and grown-ups to relax and stretch their minds.

Draw, Color, and Sticker Creative Lettering Sketchbook: An Imaginative Illustration Journal by Marissa Giambrone
Quarry Books | USD: $19.99

Draw, Color, and Sticker Creative Lettering offers page after page of beautiful inspiration designed to get you drawing letters! Stickers and partially illustrated pages provide a rich canvas to encourage you to practice drawing with a multitude of elements and across multiple themes. Black and white drawings with touches of color will get you started, and invites further experimentation. The uncoated paper stock is perfect for drawing, painting, and coloring with any variety of materials. The included stickers are printed on soft uncoated paper so they can take color or additional drawing on top!

Any book with stickers is a sure win with the kiddos and this book is no exception. It contains 500 stickers that are either colored or waiting to be colored by the creative minds and hands. This book has convinced me that letters are not just for words and that they can turn into stunning artwork through changes in style and color. It's amazing to discover in this book so many different forms letters can take: illuminated, shadow, woodland, inside out, creature, floral, just to name a few. I love how the book provides step-by-step exercises to help beginners master the art of creative lettering, which can be used to add a unique touch to banners, signs, greeting cards, and handwritten letters. Besides easy to follow tutorials, the book also provides helpful prompts and ample space for your own creation. Feel free to enhance it with the stickers and fun quotes included in the back of the book!

Busy Family Calendar 2018 by Allison Cole
Rock Point Publishers | USD: $15.99

Keep your family's organized while enjoying charming artwork on in the large calendar grid, colorful reminder stickers, and handy storage pocket make it fun and easy to manage everyone's schedule! Busy Family Calendar 2018 will organize and track up to five family members while enjoying charming season artwork by Alison Cole. The large calendar grid, colorful reminder stickers, and handy storage pocket make it fun and easy to manage everyone all year long!

This fun and functional calendar is designed to be used for 17 months long, from August 2017 to December 2018. Each page is punched for easy hanging and features colorful cartoon style pictures to match the theme of each month, such as summer vacation, back-to-school, Halloween, Christmas, etc. The cute stickers not only cover important events like birthdays, doctor appointments, parties, field trips, picture days, vacations, and more, but also provide fillable notes for meal planning and chores list. Each row on the monthly page is color coded for easy viewing and tracking. The large grids leave sufficient space for creating to-do lists and taking notes. Another nice feature of the calendar is that it indicates holidays in different countries and cultures.

Color for Calm All Year Long 2018 by Carrie Stephens
Rock Point Publishers | USD: $14.99

Color for Calm All Year Long 2018 offers 314 coloring templates for grown-ups looking to calm down and relax in a demanding digital age. Our lives become busier with each passing day, and as technology escalates, so does our access to work, obligations, and stress. Constant stimulation and expectation have left us burnt out and distanced from the present moment. This boxed calendar has a unique feature of five double sided colored pencils attached to the back stand. This will make it easy to color yourself calm all year long!

This 6" X 5" desk calendar offers daily coloring fun for those who are looking to relax and rewind through exploring their creativity. Each page can be easily detached for display or storage. The five double sided colored pencils that come with the calendar are perfect for coloring and they can be attached to the calendar base when not in use. The templates are beautiful, featuring a wide variety of creatures and patterns inspired by nature. While they are intended for grown-ups, my kids had great fun challenging themselves with these more sophisticated coloring exercises.

The Giveaway
Quarto Group has generously offered to give one of my lucky readers a Craft Books and Calendars Prize Pack, including a copy of Brain Bend, a copy of Draw, Color, and Sticker Creative Lettering Sketchbook, a copy of Busy Family Calendar 2018 and a copy of Color for Calm All Year Long 2018 (Total ARV $66.96)! Please fill out the entry form below for your chance to win. Good luck!

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Disclosure: I received free products to facilitate my honest review. All views and opinions expressed are my own. icefairy's Treasure Chest is not responsible for prize fulfillment.

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