Hi guys, it's Thao from shine bright design and I have some happy mail
so this is a package that i received over the weekend and I wanted to open up with you
I already did open it just to make sure, But I just wanted to show you.. This is how the package came
So I'm an international buyer and when I think about
Colouring books and what I want, I'm really cautious about where I buy from and a lot
of people are buying from Penstore in Sweden. And I wanted to buy from this store specifically because They had all
the prints that I wanted so if I was to go to a bookstore in Australia and ask
for a certain book, I would probably get 1/3 and it would probably cost me 30 dollars
Australian, per book and it would take over
two months or like for four weeks I reckon it'll take me a month to get the books
and that would be really slow shipping and they wouldn't be able to get all the books i want to but
Pen store stocked all three books that I wanted for a fraction more
But I got it really quickly, So I paid $109 australian shipped
and I got 3 books, and this is how it came. As you can see, they have carefully wrapped it with the card board, and yeh I think its good packaging and very sturdy
They're books by the way so there it is less likely chance
they will get damaged, so I wouldn't be that worried so I already opened it
just so you know
But this is how it did come packaged, so when you open the cardboard
Its actually placed in the pen store bag and that's a really nice touch, I like it.
Just so you know this is international shipping so you may get a little damage but i honestly don't think it that
that big of a deal, So I got 3 hard cover books from Hanna Karlzon's
i'm excited for this one and I'm really Really excited for this one too
so the condition that it came in
this ones condition is very good
almost no damage them on at all, Its hard cover, so remember hard cover book are less likely to have damage
also because its wrapped in that cardboard, it not fragile at all
Its like dented on the edge here
yeah that's a little thing but that's not a big issue for me, same with the next one.
Its not a big deal they're really great books
and I'm really excited to do time lapse video on it and a review
so I'm really excited, these hardcover books are really beautiful high-quality
I think these are best high quality books that i have now in my collection.
Talking about my collection
let's talk about my coloring book collection so far
alright so i have this book-Let do just a just a quick flip through
The paper stock feels really beautiful and excited to show you some time lapses and
see how pencils take to this. Her illustration of beautiful. One of the
many reasons that I chose Hanna Karlzon books is because, just because I like her style
faces that she does and all the fine detail work is not too tiny
which I like and I feel that there's just enough detail to satisfy me
well in other coloring book I feel like the details on way too fine for the
pencil, you may need a marker or a fine tip color pen and look at those diamonds
I love, I love this women's style. So this is the Blomster mandala, sorry I had to do a voice over in
this one
the audio and funny but this is one I'm really looking forward to
this one and I like this one because the black background. Its not
common
I haven't seen any books like this and one side is black and the other side isn't
i really like that you know.it's something that haven't seen a lot and
it's something that I'm very excited about
so that's why I really wanted to buy it. Look at that black backgrounds
I haven't seen that yet so that's one of the reasons I bought this print specially as well
and the illustrations are beautiful
if you want are all slower flip through please comment below on any of these
collection I have
so this one is Blomster Mandala
If you want a flip through of any of these please comment below andjust
tell me about the title and ill see if I can do that for you in future
this one a lot of people have this book this is one of the first books and I
and I really like her style ahead
The faces they're beautiful and flowers
the details in these colouring books aren't too fine and that's what I like about it, There's enough detail
that it's engaging but it's not too tiny that you have to squint
If you get what I am saying, so that's one reason why I like this artist
I have jasmine Becket-Griffith, A Fantasy art adventure. The first book and the first book so far she's
has another book coming out in September
I think it is a Halloween edition so I am excited for that one too, if I can get my hands on it
on it but yeah this is great, I have some time elapses my channel if you want
to watch them as well
so again if you want to see any slower flip through please tell me comment belows
That you are very interested in and I'll see what I can do
this is a magical garden- create your world and this is by
i guess just a publishing company and this is something that picked up
in my local bookstore
the reason I chose it because it had really nice
paper and and they had really nice prints, I wasn't too fussy about who the
illustrator was
so yeah
I like this one..its as I guess
cool & mystical and about fantasy and mysterious. It's magical like the other books that I showed you just then
This one is more about
still life flowers and animals...more realistic but honestly like the paper is
very nice
it take to pencil really well so I do recommend this book as well there
are a couple of reviews on on this book on youtube, if you want to look it up.
But it's a good book
I have a bunch of Johanna Basfords books
I have all her books that are available at the moment
Enchanted forest; I've done a couple colourings here
Still yet to do more, Im always collecting but not colouring quick enough to collect. Lost oceans
I did one for her latest competition, which was this one. I did this is coloring in of the whale
and some people really liked intrigued by the background and
if you would like to know how did this background I can do a watercolors technique
for you and show you how to do this background through watercolor which is what I did
so if you're interested in that please comment below that you would like to see some
watercolour techniques or how to achieve these techniques for you know colouring books
because you can use watercolour this book. I tested it and it hasn't gone
through. The page does buckle a little but it's not enough to cause a big issue for
you if you wanted a color the back page
if this is not going to cause an issue. but this one is back on that page is the
is fine
I Don't know if
I have colored anything in this book yet. Always collecting too quick but not
quick enough to color
I like all of Johanna Basford's books. They're very nice.
Secret garden, I have done a video on this and I have down time lapse and I like this book
The paper weight is very nice, the paper quality is nice for all medium, I have tried watercolour and
pencil and I'm assuming it can take marker
because it's one sided again like if it bleeds through it doesn't matter
No ones gonna care cause it's one sided. And if you rip them out you can frame them, So no ones gonna look on the other side anyway
so these prints are taken from the secret garden and these prints are nice
I think from the get-go she chose a different paper so..it was good choice as well
the paper that she chose for this book really worked well
well against what color markers and fine tips.
but It definitely works with watercolor and markers. But I did use a marker. I did use a
a marker on this one as well. But yes, that is my colouring collection so far
So I have 4 Johanna Basford books, 1 random generic book..4.. 5..6 6...9
I'm going to keep it like that for now, till I find a really good book
so yeah I have 9 books to colour in
that's a lot of pages
I'm going to take my time before i buy any more buying find two more
Buying too much
so this is my channel and Hiiii, cause this is the first time
i probably showed my face any my videos so I'm thao Hiiii and this is a new segment that i'm
going to do I guess we're gonna call it "Chat in my Love Sac"
hahaha Cause this is a love sac
ok so my thoughts on pen store which is where all my books from Hanna Karlzon
really liked pen store, they're based in Sweden and they do international shipping
and the shipping cost isn't that expensive and the condition that the books cam in were
very good
I thought there was minimal damage; the damage on the corners is something
that it can't be helped
so if it may happen, it may not happen but the condition that it came in was very good
the way they packaged it was very safe as well and was very good for the books
the delivery was really fast as well it took ..
.It actually came earlier than it should have than it should have taken another two weeks from when I was
supposed to receive it
so delivery is very quick; also transaction was good it asked for credit cards
which kinda is something that I'm very hesitant to do it
so my feedback to penstore and I have already told them problem is to try and integrate paypal into
their website payment system
so that will be a good idea in the future and yeah but then other than that
My experience and giving them my credit card details to pen store; I think its safe
I think your details would be safe and I recommend you guys to use it
for colouring books or their art supplies
so i'll link in the description box below
but check it out I was very satisfied with their service and what they provided
anyway thanks for watching and I'll see you guys next time be sure to check out
my other videos which will be in the next screen! Byeeee
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