Jenny's Crayon Collection: Coloring

The Ultimate Guide to Adult Coloring

Do you like to color? I do, it is so much fun! I am so glad there has been an adult coloring craze the past few years. It is such a relaxing activity and so fun to do. And really adult coloring is not just for adults. It can be for teens and kids too. My daughter has some "adult" coloring books for kids she uses and loves. They have designs and patterns designed for kids in them.

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30 Special Edition Sharpie Permanent Markers

I do not know how this is my very fist Sharpie post EVER because I LOVE sharpies. But it is. This is the 30 Count Sharpie pack. There are 15 Fine Point Permanent Markers and 15 Ultra Fine Point Permanent Markers. The colors are included on the back of the box. If you know me you know I love when they include colors. I can not wait to use these markers to color. Sharpie ink is super bright and absorbent. These markers will bleed. It is best to color on top of something perishable or not important because it will be bleed through.

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Crayola Art with Edge Coloring Books and Markers: What's Inside the Box

I am so excited to share with you all the information about the Art With Edge Coloring Books. I received these books and markers from Crayola in exchange for an honest review. Art With Edge includes: coloring books, loose coloring pages, markers and colored pencils. They are aimed at the tween and teen market. There is a lot of variety in the books making them appeal to many different people, super heroes, fantastic beast, zombies, skulls, and fun sayings. My kids (4 and 6) and I really liked the books and had so much fun coloring them. To see our review of the books click here.

Here are the pages I colored from the Say What?, Fantastic Beasts, and Justice League books.

Collecting Information
The markers I was given are black with the Art with Edge Logo on them.
Books& Boxes:
Markers: 12 Count Crayola Art With Edge Wedge Markers, 20 Count Crayola Art With Edge Thick & Thin Markers
Coloring Books
2016 Art With Edge-Say What?, 2016 Art With Edge-Zombie Daze, 2016 Art With Edge,-Sugar Skulls, 2016 Art With Edge-Batman Collection, 2017 Art With Edge-Fantastic Beasts, 2016 Art With Edge-Justice League
Other Books & Boxes:
Art Supplies-16 Color FX Pencils, 8 Glitter Markers
Coloring Books
Art with Edge-Geoscapes Set, Art with Edge-Graffiti, Art with Edge-Naturescapes Set, Art with Edge-Nickelodeon 90's, Art with Edge-Ridiculousness, Art with Edge-Slick Pics Set
What's Inside the Box: Colors not named :( Maybe one day they will name all their markers.
Purchase Information: Received from Crayola
Where to buy: Any place that sells Crayola Products
Style Numbers: 04-0027 (Bold & Fearless), 04-0027 (Art With Edge-Say What?,) 04-0032 (Art With Edge-Zombie Daze), 04-0031 (Art With Edge,-Sugar Skulls), 04-0025 (Art With Edge-Batman Collection), 04-0017 (Art With Edge-Fantastic Beasts), 04-0026 (Art With Edge-Justice League), 58-8187 (12 Count Markers), 58-7212 (20 Count Markers), 58-8618 (Glitter Markers), 68-1015 (Colored Pencils)
Code Numbers: 04-0027-0-960 (Bold & Fearless), 04-0027-0-960 (Art With Edge-Say What?,) 04-0032-0-960 (Art With Edge-Zombie Daze), 04-0031-0-960 (Art With Edge,-Sugar Skulls), 04-0025-0-960 (Art With Edge-Batman Collection), 04-0017-0-960 (Art With Edge-Fantastic Beasts), 04-0026-0-960 (Art With Edge-Justice League), 58-8187-0-250 (12 Count Markers), 58-7212-0-250 (20 Count Markers), 58-8618-0-250 (Glitter Markers), 68-1016-0-700 (Colored Pencils)
UPC Numbers: 071662100278 (Bold & Fearless), 071662100278 (Art With Edge-Say What?,) 071662200329 (Art With Edge-Zombie Daze), 071662300319 (Art With Edge,-Sugar Skulls), 071662200251 (Art With Edge-Batman Collection), 071662201173 (Art With Edge-Fantastic Beasts), 071662400262 (Art With Edge-Justice League), 071662081874 (12 Count Markers), 071662172121 (20 Count Markers), 071662086183 (Glitter Markers), 071662510169 (Colored Pencils)
IBSN Numbers: 978-0-9967102-5-1 (Bold & Fearless), 978-0-9967102-5-1 (Art With Edge-Say What?,) 978-0-9967102-8-2 (Art With Edge-Zombie Daze), 978-0-9967102-7-5 (Art With Edge,-Sugar Skulls)
Manufacturing Location: USA (Coloring Books & 20 Count Markers), Malaysia (12 Count Markers), Brazil (Colored Pencils), China (Glitter Markers)

2016 Crayola Art With Edge Coloring Book-Say What?

2016 Crayola Art With Edge Coloring Book-Sugar Skulls

2016 Crayola Art With Edge Coloring Book-Zombie Daze

2017 Crayola Art With Edge Coloring Pages-Fantastic Beasts

2016 Crayola Art With Edge Coloring Book-Batman

2016 Crayola Art With Edge Coloring Book-Justice League

2016 Crayola Art With Edge 12 Count Wedge Markers

2016 Crayola Art With Edge 20 Count Thick & Thin Markers

Crayola Art With Edge Review

I was so excited to receive the Art With Edge Coloring Books and markers from Crayola in exchange for an honest review.

What is Art With Edge?

Art with Edge is a new line of books/coloring pages geared at the tween and teen audience. There are some really fun and cool books to choose from. There are also sets of markers and colored pencils to go with them. My kids, 4 and 6 even loved them. We colored pages from the books all morning.

Some of the books are actually loose pages covered in plastic. I can see kids or teens being annoyed by the loose pages, but I liked them. My son got a Cars 3 coloring book recently with loose pages. He said, "the people making the book didn't make this right." I like the loose pages because we like to make copies of the pages here to use. We usually all color the same page at the same time. The loose pages made really good copies. It is also easier to remove the loose pages for framing than to remove the pages from the book for framing.

The coloring book/pages come in the following books or coloring pages:

Fantastic Beasts (loose pages)
Justice League (loose pages)
Batman (loose pages)
Sugar Skulls book
Say What? book
Zombie Daze book

Not pictured are:

Graffiti
Nickelodeon 90's
Ridiculousness

They also come in art sets:

Geoscapes
Naturescapes
Slick Pics

One really cool thing about the markers is they are black and have the Art With Edge Logo on them. I love it when Crayola makes products unique. I do wish the color names were on the markers. The Art With Edge markers and colored pencils are:

12 Count Wedge Markers
20 Count Thick & Thin Markers that connect together
16 Count Color FX Pencils
8 Count Glitter Markers

I think all but the Wedge markers are good markers to color with. I found the wedge markers fun, but hard for detail work.

I had so much fun coloring these pages. All the books were very unique and had fun pictures to color. Here is what I colored. I have included the instruments I used on each page and in the caption.

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Wonder Woman, Justice League Book, colored with 72 Count Color Escapes Colored Pencils. I love colored pencils for detailed work.

Say What? Book colored with Art With Edge Wedge Markers. Bo Bunny paper used in the background.

Say What? Book colored with Dynamic Duos Markers

Fantastic Beast Pages colored with Art With Edge Thick & Thin Markers

What Did I Think?
I think these books are great for teens and kids, and even adults. We all had fun coloring the pages. There is a variety of books that will appeal to all personalities. I personally would not have gotten the Skulls or Zombie book on my own, but I know there are a lot of people out there that like those kind of books. I would definitely recommend picking one of these books up.

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Crayola Adult Coloring Books Review

I was so excited to find the Crayola Folk Art Escapes and Elegant Escapes adult coloring books at the Crayola Store in Kansas City. I found the Whimsical and Patterned Escapes later at Toy's R Us. The coloring book pages are sturdy and heavy. They were first made in 2015 in conjunction with their parent company Hallmark. I am planning on copying the pages and coloring them with my little girl. It will be so much fun. Crayola also came out with a line of matching markers and colored pencils (Aged Up). Check them out here! I wanted to find all of the adult coloring books, but they fly off the store shelves.

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Here are some pages I colored from the books. It is super fun to color and come up with ideas for what they should look like. I love using thin markers like Doodle Scents, Dynamic Duos and, Pip Squeak Skinnies, and Super Tips markers.

In 2017 Crayola came out with it's own Escapes series Nature and Inspired Escapes. These books are only 40 pages and not made by Hallmark Artists. Hallmark actually has their own line of adult coloring books now.

Crayola Aged Up Adult Coloring Colored Pencils and Fine Line Markers: What's Inside the Box

Crayola came out with a new line of adult coloring books and pencils and fine line markers in 2015. Crayola advertised their large color escapes cases, 25 dollars, a little pricey for me. They did not advertise this line of "Aged Up" colored pencils and fine line markers. I stumbled across them in Target and Walmart. I grabbed them up because I loved the packaging. I love the white and colors and the vibrant colors. I also loved the dual-ended colored pencils. I have a packaged called blenders that I will post soon. They are some of my favorite colored pencils. I think the pencils in that box were closely related, a shade darker or lighter, but these ones are opposite colors that will go together well when coloring.

I also stumbled across this handy dandy chart of how to make different colors with the colored pencils on Crayola's website. Check it out, you will not be disappointed. I can not wait to use the tips.

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These fine line markers are not washable, there is a stain advisement on the back of the box. And another by the way, the name Aged Up is not on the package, but is what they are called on Target's website.