Adult coloring books are all of the rage these days, but what do you do with all of those beautiful pages that you colored? Well, if your a crafter, you can cut them down-to-size and use them on your scrapbooking pages, on your handmade greeting cards, decoupage the designs onto glassware or you can laminate the smaller images and turn them into refrigerator magnets!

Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing with you several different craft projects that all utilize those beautiful coloring book pages that you made!

For this particular project, I used images from an adult coloring book that I colored with glitter gel pens. Check out my review on the Butterfly Gardens Adult Coloring Book if you love butterflies! When making refrigerator magnets, I use images that are 4″ or less in size…with 3″ being ideal.  If you don’t have your own laminating machine at home, you can take your finished paper projects into some office supply stores and use their’s for a small fee. You can also check the public library or if you work in an office, see if you can use that one.

Not into refrigerator magnets? Don’t worry, you can still laminate them and poke a small hole through the top of each one to turn them into holiday ornaments! Remember Shrinky Dinks? These magnets look just like them!

Craft Project: Laminated Paper Refrigerator Magnets

Laminating Machine with Plastic Supplies
Colored Images from Adult Coloring Book
Scissors
Round Magnetic Discs
All-Purpose Craft Glue

Note: I love using the glitter gel pens from Yoobi when I color in my adult coloring books. I love how they glide across the paper and the shimmer glitter effect with their colors. You can use whatever you prefer.

You’ll want to select images that are 4″ in size or less. Color them in using your preferred artist tools. Using a small pair of scissors, cut around the perimeter of the image. I find that large scissors don’t work as well.

When I make these, I will make several at one time. I lay them onto my plastic laminating protector sheets and then place them on the feeder board. I heat up the laminating machine on the lowest heat setting. Once it’s reached temperature, I feed the feeder board through the machine. You’ll want to follow the directions for your particular machine. If you’re making these with kids, this part is best left for an adult to do.

Once they come out of the machine, I let my sheets cool down for 5 minutes. I then use small scissors and cut around the perimeter of each image. When doing this, you’ll want to leave some space around the image, so that you don’t break the plastic seal. I typically leave 1/16″ of an edge. (image above shows them cooling on the plastic sheets).

Use some all-purpose liquid crafter’s glue to adhere your round magnet disc onto the back of each laminated image. Let them dry overnight before using them.

That’s it! What a great way to preserve and use those smaller colored images from your adult coloring books! It’s a great way to add some “adult art” to the front of your refrigerator or use them to decorate the front of a file cabinet. They also make great gifts and can be inserted into greeting cards & mailed to a loved one.

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