Product Description

This only-from-Klutz deluxe treatment of a classic coloring activity comes complete with ten vividly colored markers. Follow the step-by-step directions to make a fuzzy photo frame, a tactile maze, a wall hanging and other feel-good projects too. Finally, velvet art with the caliber of imagination, inspiration and artwork such a cool format deserves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20820 in Books
• Brand: Klutz
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 20 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781591742593
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Velvet Art......A Super, Terrific, Wonderful Gift!
My daughter just received this fantastic book for her birthday and we are already searching for more editions. I don't know what it is about velvet art, but kids love it! Forget the oversized ponies and unicorns from the grocery store, this book is so hip and is condensed down to normal book size. The velvet pieces are protected w/ cardboard and plastic and have all sizes, shapes and uses. We've got bookmarks, picture frames and all kinds of cool things to do with this book. My daughter just turned 8 and is quite the aspiring artist, although I have to say, her little 4 year old brother has had just as much fun. Highly recommend and at this price, buy it for all your kids friends and save them for the next birthday party your invited to!

Awesome book
This book has the coolest pictures in it - appropriate for boys & girls. It also has more than just pictures - you can make a frame or ornaments etc. I bought it for a gift and my kids both wanted one.

Really Fun, Enjoyed by Both Boys and Girls, a Great Gift
Velvet Art is an art activity kit bound into a book. Klutz, the publisher, makes many different art and craft kits sold in a book format.

These are cardboard pages that are held within plastic sleeves, you remove the pages to color them. The pages are quite sturdy so cannot tear or rip by accident, another good thing about this kit. Each page has velvet in between the images to be colored. The kit comes with thick markers which are easy for younger hands to grasp. It is impossible to `color outside the lines' because when the marker touches the velvet on the edge of the area being colored, it is forced to stop. This results in perfect looking colored pages, which is rewarding for all kids, and especially younger kids who may not be used to doing such a perfect job on regular coloring book pages. The markers that come with the kit and are held in a re-sealable pouch attached to the spiral binding. Three years later, our markers are still not dried out.

There are ten pages to color in total. One page can be turned into a frame, there are some small images that are perforated to be made into gift tags. There are two smaller images which they say can be turned into a gift card and there is one bookmark. The images are a mix of boy-interest (one is space, another monster) and girl-interest (one has a cute mermaid) and others are unisex.


One year we gave this as a gift to six children in our family aged 5-10, to play with at our Christmas Eve family celebration. Each child had their own book/kit and all the kids loved it, girls and boys, younger and the older. Even the boys who didn't usually like coloring books enjoyed this as the black velvet makes a stark contrast and the colors pop, and because it `comes out perfect every time'.

I highly recommend this book for children who need to be kept busy and quiet, such as at a big family party, to be given as a Christmas gift, to use when on a long car trip or airplane ride, or for any child who likes to color who is looking for something different.

The only downside is that the markers are not labeled as being washable, they seem to be the `regular' markers, so the younger kids have to be careful about getting them on clothes or on furnishings.

We own many of the different Klutz books/kits and have been happy with all of them so far!