Hi guys, I’m Karen, welcome back to Karen
Kavett Puzzles.
Today I’m going to be trying something a
little bit different for me.
Rather than doing just a straight time lapse
with nice music of this puzzle, instead I’m
going to be doing a full-on review deep dive
into the Canvas puzzle by Cloudberries.
Before I get into it though, I just want to
give a shoutout to jigsawjunkies.com, which
is a blog about jigsaw puzzles and they have
an entire brand comparison page which has
so much information about like every jigsaw
puzzle brand.
And I kind of stole some of the criteria that
I’m going to be judging this puzzle on from
them.
So if you want more Jigsaw puzzle magnetic factory (https://amzdeals.eleoem.com/) puzzle reviews,
I’ll put that link right down below.
I’m not affiliated with them in any way,
it’s just when I found this site, I was
like, this is what I need in my life.
And I, maybe some of you puzzlers will find
it useful as well.
Anyway, today I’m going to be looking at
the Canvas puzzle by Cloudberries.
Cloudberries is a fairly new puzzle brand
based in the UK.
And they did send me this puzzle and all of
their other puzzles that I have by them for
free but this isn’t a sponsored video, um
everything I’m going to say is my honest
opinion.
First let’s look at the box.
I love how modern and simple the design is.
The front of the box has the entire picture
of what’s on the puzzle without any of it
being covered up or getting cut off.
And then the rest is a really simple gray
background with white text.
And then on the back it’s just a solid gray.
I love that all of their puzzle boxes match
and they’re all the exact same size, and
they’re just a really nice, simple design,
so you could totally have these out on display
and it wouldn’t look messy or cluttered.
The one thing I do wish though is that I wish
one side of the puzzle boxes had a little
thumbnail of what the puzzle looks like.
Because right now all of them are just white
and gray, and so if you have them stacked
here, you just have to kind of know what they
look like, or you have to pull it off the
shelf to look at the front.
Whew, five puzzle boxes are kind of heavy.
Alright, so when you get the puzzle, it is
shrink wrapped, so you just have to cut off
the plastic.
Then inside, the pieces come in a plastic
bag that you have to cut open.
There’s nothing else that comes with it,
no catalogs or posters or anything like that.
The pieces themselves are mounted on a light
blue cardboard.
It’s pretty neutral, not quite as blue as
the Ravensburger puzzles but not just a straight
gray either.
The pieces feel pretty thick and high quality,
and the picture is really well glued onto
the front, so I never had an issue with it
peeling up from the corners or the cardboard
peeling up on the back.
The printing is kind of a satin finish, not
totally glossy, but not totally matte either.
There is quite a bit of puzzle dust that accumulates,
both in the box and on the table as you’re
working on it.
It doesn’t really bother me since I can
just blow it away, but it is a little annoying.
And a few pieces did come put together where
they weren’t completely cut apart, but it
was only a couple and they were easy to just
pull apart as I was sorting out the pieces.
So this puzzle has a lot of fun colors and
designs.
I began by sorting the pieces into the completely
white pieces, the colorful pieces, and the
edges.
And the sorting took me about 15 minutes.
After that it was time to start working on
the puzzle itself.
This puzzle is 1000 pieces and it measures
about 27 by 19 inches.
And that is the perfect size for me because
not today but sometimes I do puzzles on foamcore
which usually measures 20 inches by 30 inches.
And so this one will fit completely on the
foamcore without any of it hanging over the
edge.
You guys know that I love any puzzle with
bright colors and I also like puzzles that
aren’t frustratingly hard.
I just don’t find it fun to be staring at
pieces and not making any progress.
So, I really liked this one because it had
several distinct sections that were easy to
separate and put together so you always felt
like you were moving forward and making good
progress.
And the colors are beautifully printed and
saturated, which I love because if I’m going
to be staring at something for three hours,
I want it to be colors that make me happy.
I think this would be a really fun one to
do totally blind by hiding the box and just
figuring out where all of the sections go
as you work on it.
I just couldn’t do that for this video,
because I didn’t want to end up with even
more footage to edit.
So the second hardest part of this puzzle
was this dark section right here, but that’s
also partly because my light was shining directly
on it and I couldn’t look too closely at
it without blocking the shot with my head.
But then absolutely the hardest part of this
puzzle was all of the white pieces at the
end.
There are some sections where it’s slightly
more yellow or it has a little bit of texture,
but you’re going to want to do this part
in really good lighting so you can really
see all of the very subtle color differences.
I ended up resorting to my little trick of
separating out the pieces by shape, which
definitely helped the last 50 pieces or so
go in much more quickly.
All of the pieces are standard puzzle shapes,
and there aren’t any weird ones in there
to have to worry about.
I also did not have a problem in this puzzle
with pieces seeming like they fit where they
didn’t actually go.
That’s an issue I had with their earlier
Mountain puzzle, which is more of a gradient
with less texture.
But that was one of their very first releases
so it seems like they have totally solved
that issue in their later puzzles.
And that’s the puzzle.
As I said, I really loved this one.
I’m sure it is one that I’m going to be
returning to over and over.
Once I finished sorting the pieces, it took
me a little under 3 hours, which is definitely
on the quicker side for a thousand piece puzzle.
But I would definitely say that this is a
very easy puzzle, except for all of the white
sections at the end, everything else is very
distinct and it’s easy to tell where on
the board all of the pieces are going to go.
I realized that I never showed you guys whether
the pieces interlock tightly, so I broke off
a section here.
You can see that as long as you hold it carefully,
you can pick up and move large sections, however
they’re fairly loose, so you wouldn’t
be able to pick up the entire puzzle at once.
If you wanted to hang it up, you would definitely
have to glue it together.
But, it’s not like the pieces just crumble
apart if you try to move a large section.
So since I talk about these a lot, I’ve
had a few of you asking me where to get the
Cloudberries puzzles.
You can see the prices on their website – they’re
about 23 US dollars.
When I plugged in my city though, unfortunately
the shipping came out to be more than the
puzzle itself, which is a crazy price for
a puzzle.
And it was the same price on Amazon, except
for the Gradient Puzzle, which is currently
$25 on Amazon Prime, so you didn’t have
the extra shipping cost.
I didn’t actually realize that the shipping
was gonna be so expensive to the US, so now
I am extra thankful to them for just sending
them to me for free.
I really hope that the puzzles will be available
in the US soon for less of a shipping cost.
If they let me know when that happens, I’ll
definitely tell you guys on Instagram.
If you’re in the UK though, I’m sure the
shipping will probably be a lot less so you
can get them on their website and I’m gonna
have that linked for you right down below.
These puzzles are really beautiful, I’m
so happy that they got in contact with me
when they saw that I am really into jigsaw
puzzles because honestly they’re some of
my favorites right now and I definitely recommend
them.
So, make sure to stay tuned for the longer
cuts of the puzzle time lapse without any
of me jabbering on in the background.
It’ll be much more calm and meditative where
you can see me put the whole thing together
both in a slightly sped up to like an hour
long and also the real time time lapse which
will be like two and a half hours long.
So those will be up very soon.
I’d love to know in a comment right down
below if you guys like this new review format
for a video or if there’s anything else
you want to know about the puzzles that I
didn’t cover.
Or if there are any other puzzle brands that
you especially want me to cover.
The next review is going to be of a Ceaco
puzzle, this really fun rainbow ice cream
one, so stay tuned for that.
And I think that I have chattered on long
enough about jigsaw puzzles.
I’m gonna go, thank you guys so much for
watching and I’ll see you all next time.
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