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Recently here at Juicebox Designs, we have birthed twins. No, not human twins, although Kristi in our office is an identical twin. We're talking about product twins. Two coloring books for adults-one was born back in the spring, called Patterns for Prayer, and the other, called Patterns for Peace was born earlier this month. They were conceived months ago on this piece of paper below, when I was trying to come up with a line of books to complement our first coloring book for adults, Colorful Comfort. Our goal was to create a second line of books that had the same level of quality as Colorful Comfort, but have a different visual theme, be a different (and smaller) size, and come in at a lower price point. Visually, we wanted them to be based around patterns-floral, geometric and abstract. Regarding size, we wanted to get away from the square shape on these and move to a vertical rectangle, so after doing some research, playing around with sizes and the page count and crunching some numbers with our printer, we settled on all those things and started the next step. Next up was the actual planning of the book. This is where a lot of my work comes in, since Kristi does all of the illustration and hand-lettering. After it was determined that the Prayer book would be first, I started making a master list of verses from the Bible about prayer and once I had a list of prayers covering various topics, Kristi and I met about them. When we were both happy with the verses and the translations of them, then the fun part started. After the plan was in place, then the creative work began. Since Kristi is a big fan of coloring, and does it on a regular basis, she already had a vision for the types of patterns she wanted to surround the Scripture verses with, so she went to work sketching patterns, like these below. Pages and pages of sketches were being conceived and created, and as this process was going on, we were meeting on a regular basis, to discuss which ones would be good as a border, background, repeatable pattern ...