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Brand: Cardinal Puzzles Title: Mum's Guest House Artist: Cheryl Bartley Pieces: 500 (approx. 1"x1" in size) Size: 18" x 24" |
Overall Experience: Good Cut Quality: Loose Board Quality: Firm Shape Cut: Grid-like Image Quality: Brush strokes Hardest Area: The bottom Flower pots Puzzle Dust? minimal |
Finish Quality: Smooth Box Quality: Good and solid Sealed Pieces Inside Box: yes Was this purchased new? no Price: Sent for review Recommend Level: Medium Time: 5 hours |
I did my usual sorting routine.
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![]() Note the size of the pieces are bigger than average puzzle pieces for easy handling. |
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The border went together fairly quickly with the blue sky at the top and flower pots at the bottom just leaving the sides to fall into place. The USA Flag was easy to spot so it got assembled as the pieces were sorted. |
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The blue sky was the easiest color to start with and since this was a 500 piece puzzle with larger size pieces it went rather quickly. Then the Fall colored trees were next bringing the Guest house windows into view. Once the building was completed the side areas and faceless people were completed.
That left only the flower pots and pathways which were the trickiest areas to complete.
I am not sure what's up with the Artist's idea of faceless people in her images - her trademark so to speak maybe? Her style of painting is by brush strokes which makes the pieces tricky to recognize and the whole image somehow come together.
I do like the overall image but I am not fond of doing puzzles that where the pieces that are not easily recognizable. If this were smaller pieces and in 1000 pieces it would be very testy to assemble.
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Cardinal's jigsaw puzzle titled Mum's Guest House is by Artist Cheryl Bartley. It is a 500 piece measuring 18"x 24" and comes with a box lid easel and reusable, sealable bag, both which are very nice extras as shown below.
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This puzzle was sent to me for being part of the Cardinal Puzzle Panel review Group in Facebook. Cardinal Puzzles has reached out to several Group member to provide us with free puzzles upon completing their surveys and reviews. It's our pleasure of course ;)
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