Valentines Jigsaw Puzzle Reviews

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Brand: Eurographics Title: Sweet Valentines

Puzzle, Size: 19.25" x 27", Pieces: 1000

Sweet Valentines Puzzle Review

Overall Experience: Perfect Finish Quality: Smooth-shiny

Cut Quality: Great Board Quality: Great

Shape Cut: Grid/ribbon like Image Quality: Great

Hardest Area: Pink shades/vase Puzzle Dust? no

Box Quality: Great Sealed Pieces Inside Box: yes

Was this purchased new? no Price: Picked for review

Recommend Level: Highly Time: 10 hours

Brand: Bits & Pieces, Title: Valentine Stamps Puzzle By: Barbara Behr, Pieces: 500, Size: 18" x 24"

Overall Experience:  Great Cut Quality: Very good 

Board Quality: Medium thickness Shape Cut: Large random

Image Quality: Great Hardest Area: None

Puzzle Dust? minimal Finish Quality: Smooth

Box Quality: Solid Sealed Pieces: yes

Was this purchased new? gift Price: N/A 

Recommend Level: Highly Time: 5.5 hours

 I did not do my usual sorting routine with this 500 piece but merely sorted out the edges and then laid out the rest of

the pieces.

As you can see the border above on the bottom right it went together so quickly I almost forgot to take a photo. This image can be referred to as a collage type which meant basically putting clusters of pieces together and lying them into their perspective areas of the image. Then the rest would simply fall into place. The random cuts were quite helpful too. The following two images shares the progress as I carried along.

Valentine Stamps Puzzle Comments...

The scenes are a vintage era which is another favorite for me. I can actually recall seeing some of these Valentines Day images in my past as a youngster.

Brand: Ravensburger Collection Silhouette, Title: Heart Shaped Puzzle, Artist: Ulrike Schneiders, Pieces: 948, Size: 26.378"x26.378" (67 cmx 67cm) 

Overall Experience:  Great Cut Quality: Very good 

Board Quality: Medium thickness Shape Cut: random

Image Quality: Great Hardest Area: white roses

Puzzle Dust? none         Finish Quality: Smooth

Box Quality: Solid         Sealed Pieces: no

Was this purchased new?  No         Price: Gifted

Recommend Level: Highly Time: Under 10 hours

After I completed the border and the inside hearts I headed straight for the solid dark red roses and assembled them into their positions on the board as shown below. Then I attempted to work around the hearts that were already on the board as those pieces where shaped slightly different than the more common standard shaped pieces. Some of the pieces were actually a 'stretched' variation of random/grid-like and not so much as extremely random.

I continued to build around the heart shapes that were already in place and I started to add the pinks, whites and the small amounts of green colors into place. There were actually some 'almost' black pieces that filled the background. Then there were some 'sprigs' of white leafy-petal type pieces that were a little tricky too.

The Ravensburger Heart Shaped Puzzle is a such beautiful shaped image produced in 1999 and  the image is by Ulrike Schneiders, who was born in Germany, and (like her father) is internationally recognized as one of the foremost still-life photographers. Her images can be found in many brands of jigsaw puzzle companies.