Hello creative friends, I hope you are doing well today! Have you joined the adult coloring craze yet? I recently have although I didn’t plan on it at all! I can remember back in the fall going to the book section in my grocery store to pick up my favorite magazine. I was so annoyed when I realized that there was twelve adult coloring books for sale, replacing many of the magazines I usually see there. I was determined not to get into this fad…

Then I met some wonderful people at Leisure Arts and they gave me a lovely coloring book and asked me if I would do a project with a coloring page. I was up for that. I’ve made cards before with a coloring page as a background and I had other ideas floating in my head. You will be seeing another few projects coming soon.

For today I did a simple but somewhat time consuming paper piecing project. The idea came from quilting and I thought it would be fun to mix the patterns together to create a new one. I hope you will try this.

For this project I used the following supplies:

Coloring book from Leisure Arts

Tombow Dual Brush Pens

Tombow Aqua Mono Liquid Glue

Scissors

Binder

Self Adhesive Gems

Letter stencil

Step One: Color the coloring page with the markers. (note, my 14 year old daughter broke her ankle and was bored out of her mind so she colored this page for me! No worries though, you will see my coloring skills in future projects but this shows that you can get your kids and teens involved too!)

Step Two: Hand Draw a Dragonfly or image of choice. You can also print out something online, just make sure to have permission to use it.

Step Three: Cut the dragonfly in pieces, keeping them in place so that this doesn’t turn into a puzzle!

Step Four: Trace each piece onto the back of the coloring page and cut them out. I did mine one a time to keep everything in order.

Step Five: Use the stencil to trace a word on the back of the coloring page and cut the letters out. (yes this could of been done with an electronic cutting machine but since I was already fussy cutting I did mine by hand!)

Step Six: Adhere all the pieces of the dragonfly and letters on the binder surface with the Mono Liquid Glue.

Step Seven: Attach a few gems here and there.

That’s it, try and see how many fun patterns you can create!