If you’re looking for pretty and simple printable leaf coloring pages, this set includes maple, oak, palm, aspen – and 8 more leaves! When you’re done, check out these mushroom coloring pages, too. This post contains affiliate links.

If you’re a fan of coloring of any age, leaf coloring pages are a must-try. Leaves are one of those wonders of nature: they are so similar in basic structure, yet so different! Virtually any plant can be identified by simply snapping a photo of its leaves.

That’s why these leaf coloring pages were kept simple: focus on the simplified shape of each leaf and have fun coloring!

And yes, grown-ups and kids can both have fun learning about leaf shapes and coloring in leaves with these. Kids can color them in more simply or get creative, and adults can practice shading and highlighting, and blending various art supplies on these.

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A peek at the whole bundle

These coloring pages are sold as a bundle, ready for you to download and explore. They include the following leaves.

You have a magnolia, maple, ash, and palm. These are obviously not proportionate to each other and are designed to fill the page as much as possible.

There’s Linden, chestnut (note: the spelling has been fixed on your copy).

Finally, you get Lilac (did you know that’s a tree?) Birch, Poplar, and Holly.

While these are great for any time, they are fabulous for coloring and using in fall crafts – or even Christmas! Do them all at once or break them out for certain occasions.

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Tips for coloring leaf coloring pages

What I used

I always like to share my best tips for coloring these when I can.

For these, I pulled out my Ohuhu alcohol markers. I pulled out sets of similar colors – and stepped a bit outside the expected bounds, going deeper, darker, yellower, and browner than the obvious.

I protected my surface using a sheet of plastic for backing. The markers I used were fine tip on one side and chisel on the other. I do find brush-tip alcohol markers easier to blend since they fade more naturally.

Alcohol markers are fabulous for layering and blending on projects like this one because they won’t soak the page and shrivel it – they just absorb right in.

Color theory in leaf coloring pages

When choosing your colors, don’t just stick with the obvious. Think of the variation in color in what you see, and step outside the box. On the red maple leaf, I added a splash of yellow that really made it pop more than the others.

The aspen would never be a flat yellow. It always has a brown tone to it.

Studying photos of leaves as you color your leaf coloring pages is a really helpful way to get a convincing effect.

More cool supplies for coloring leaf coloring pages

If you’re not up for using alcohol markers, or just aren’t in the mood for them, try this (and yes, you can follow the steps below roughly using these media too):

• Try this with chalk pastels instead
• Soft core colored pencils are a favorite! A good mid-range brand is Prismacolor Premiere.
• Trace the design onto a watercolor board using carbon paper and color it with watercolors.

You can also add highlights using a white gel pen, sparkle using a gold paint marker, or use your imagination to overlay it with doodles and mandalas!

How to color leaf coloring pages – step by step tutorial

I usually stick to basic tips and not an exact process for coloring pages, because you need to be the artist.

However, since this is a more nature-sourced and specific – “technical” – coloring page, I’ll follow a process – but do whatever YOU’D like!

1. Swatch each color you plan to use before you start, testing how they blend. For the maple leaf, start with a darker red. Fill in around the border, adding thicker blocks of color in some spaces.

Avoid making things too homogeneous.

2. Take a lighter and brighter shade of red and color over it, blending the colors together. I recommend coloring over your darker color, too, to get a better blend. Use light blending strokes as needed.

3. Keep going lighter and brighter. Don’t be afraid to go more orange and yellow. If you go too bright too fast, choose an in-between color to blend things better.

And remember, nature doesn’t have perfect blends either!

4. Keep going, overlapping and blending.

I often like to find a very light shade that I can use to go over the whole thing and set a specific “tone”.

5. For the aspen leaf, which I colored “yellow”, I started out with tans as my deeper color, working my way into golden tones and yellow. This one I left flat and less dynamic.

6. On the oak, which I colored green, I started out with deeper colors on the inside, working my way lighter. I did jump ahead a bit on this one, coloring the outline in the light shade first just because I wanted to block that in with neat strokes to allow me to then do more fast strokes on the inside.

I did then go over the whole leaf with the same process.

Have fun coloring your leaf coloring pages! And no, you don’t need to keep them realistic! You can color them in a rainbow spectrum, see how many shades of green you can discover, or just work with any fantastical color scheme!

And yes, this would make a FABULOUS classroom project – whether it’s a bulletin board or garland. Give everyone a leaf to color and see what they come up with!

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If you enjoyed this, you’ll definitely want to check out my tutorial on how to draw a maple leaf!

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One of the biggest breakthroughs when the Cricut Maker first came out was the knife blade, and its ability to cut through much more substantial materials. It opened up a whole new realm of possibilities for home crafters like me. (We now even have the next gen, the Maker 3, which is insanely awesome, by the way. You could read my Cricut Maker 3 review here. )

However, like with many areas of crafting, there is a learning curve.

When you’re cutting wood on the Cricut, your first project – or five – should be very simple, until you get the hang of things. That’s why this Cricut wood bookmark is the perfect option for getting it started. You’re literally just cutting a rectangle.

You’re also making the hole for the tassel. This is a great way to gauge how it’ll perform on a smaller cut, but it’s not a make-it-or-break-it for the project itself. If you don’t want to cut a hole for a tassel, just add any shape over it, and weld them. Or, contour, and leave out the circle.

To make things more exciting, we’re writing on our wood! Isn’t that cool? Did you even know you can do that?!

Here’s why these wood bookmarks are so cool:

1. You can’t normally just print on wood. The Cricut lets you write on it!
2. Pull it right off the mat, pretty much finished with little assembly required!

This makes a fantastic library project, handout, or even teacher gift! Place it in self-sealing plastic sleeves with a few markers and a skein of floss as a DIY craft kit.

Balsa Wood for Cricut vs. Basswood

Since the Cricut Maker can cut both Balsa Wood and Basswood, many crafters have the question: which should you use? The answer is that it depends on the project, of course!

Many projects can use either, including this one.

Balsa wood tends to be lighter. Basswood tends to be stronger. So choose your most needed features!

This project gets some play, with kids (or adults) coloring it. So that’s a win for basswood. However, since it’s a bookmark, that’s a win for balsa wood. Sometimes it boils down to cost and what you can easily find.

This project was made using basswood, but either one goes for it.

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How to cut bass or balsa wood with Cricut Maker

Supplies Needed

• Basswood or Balsa Wood Sheet 1/16 inch
• Cricut Maker (you can only cut wood using the Maler)
• Strong Grip Mat
• Masking Tape
• Cricut Knife Blade
• Cricut Pen 0.4 tip Black
• Markers
• Free Cut File above
• Pre-made tassel, or a skein of embroidery floss to make one

Step-by-step balsa wood Cricut tutorial

1. Upload your file to design space and ungroup the images.

2. You will need to change the words and rose to the pen setting.

3. Select all 3 layers and attach

4. Prepare your mat by placing your wood on it and then using masking tape to tape all 4 sides. Make sure to really press the tape down so your wood does not slide.

5. Now we need to set the tools in your maker. In clamp B put your knife blade. It looks like this.

In clamp A add your pen. Your carriage should look like this.

5. You will want to cut the bookmark using the proper wood settings – Basswood or Balsa wood 1/16″ (1.6mm)

If you use a different kind of wood please use the appropriate settings. It can really mess up your machine if you use the wrong kind of settings.

6. The machine will first draw the design on and then it will cut the bookmark. It will cut many passes – mine cut 14 passes. Do not leave the machine while it is cutting. You’ll want to be around somewhat supervising. You can do other things in the area, but keep half an eye.

When finished your bookmark will look like this

I suggest using fine tip markers to color on because some of the lines will be small. After you are finished coloring it, add a tassel to complete!

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Progress is the goal with these new motivational coloring pages! If you want full quotes, check out my anti-stress coloring pages, or scroll down to explore this new set. This post contains affiliate links.

I’ve always felt like coloring is a fantastic self-help resource, especially when there are actual words involved.

As I color, I drill the messages into my brain, repeat the mantras, and think about the topics the pages talk about.

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For a while, I wanted to whittle the concept of motivational coloring pages to single words. It’s just much more to the point.

But I didn’t want to go with the same old “faith, hope, love…”

A friend helped point me in the direction of these coloring pages.

Growth mindset coloring pages

The idea of a single word is that it says it all.

So how do you say what you really want to say with one word?

First, I narrowed down my message: Progress, not perfection

We strive to be perfect in our self-betterment, but really, it’s the growth mindset that’s important.

That’s why each of these pages contain the “growth” – more, rather than most – form of the word.

I want to be better. I don’t need to be the best.

As long as I’m working on it, I’m improving, I’m in good shape.

We’re ditching the perfectionism and aiming for progress.

Words featured on these motivational coloring pages

The list of words was surprisingly hard to pull together but here they are – with my thought process behind each one:

1. Bolder:

Taking the plunge, saying what I think, and being strong in my ideals is a life I want to live.

2. Braver:

Not being afraid to try new things, to step into uncomfortable situations, or to speak my mind.

3. Stronger:

Strength comes through willpower, through recovery, and often through hardship. I want to try to let the hard times allow me to grow and be a stronger person.

4. Calmer:

How I respond to anxiety, how I respond to my kids, how I respond when things upset me on social media… I want to remember to take those deep breaths..

5. Happier:

Happiness might be a state of mind, but it’s also a life of working on it. I hope to learn to be happier no matter whether life accommodates me or not.

6. Kinder:

Kindness is everything. One action at a time, one word at a time, let’s be kinder – it’ll solve so many problems!

7. Neater:

It might be challenging to keep things neat with kids home with life tossed upside down… but progress is everything.

8. Better:

Better at everything on this list – but one thing at a time. Aiming to choose the better path in everything we do. Just focusing on the better option.

9. Wiser:

We can learn and we can relearn and absorbing life’s lessons is what makes us wiser. My commitment is to learn from my experiences so that I am wiser.

10. Healthier:

While it can be hard to stick to the daily walk or the diet perfectly, sometimes just choosing the healthier choice in the moment can make all the difference.

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How I illustrated these coloring pages

My motivational coloring pages are digitally drawn using a stylus on my laptop. That means that they are hand-drawn using digital media (and not digitally generated designs or outlined clipart.)

The reason I draw my artwork digitally is to allow me more flexibility in making corrections, creating my designs, and playing around with different options.

All the text was also hand lettered by me – not using fonts. Since I illustrated these growth mindset coloring pages digitally, I was able to add a pre-made grid to follow, and in some cases, I was able to outline my lettering – by hand, using a calligraphic brush – for you to color.

In this way, I can maintain the flexibility of digital art with the organic nature of physical art.

I also don’t need to worry about erasing my pencil well enough (I just disable the pencil sketch layer). I skip “vectorizing” my image which sharpens it but often ruins the detail. When I scan a hand-drawn image it needs that to sharpen it, but drawing digitally means the lines are already quite sharp.

I also have the benefit of digital rulers, use of some basic shapes (such as the main squares on the “bolder” page), and occasionally duplicating or mirroring a design that is a bit repetitive (such as the top and bottom on the “neater” page.)

How I colored the “kinder” page

I pulled out my Prismacolor Premier alcohol markers to try on my favorite page – the “kinder” page – which give me the power to blend in rich, bright colors.

I spent a while coloring it.

And then spilled my last ounce of coffee on it…

I think I did a pretty good save – the colors didn’t bleed much. And Photoshop allows me to to share with you something close to what it looks like in real life. My reaction was “calmer” than it could have been since I’m trying to be a “happier” person…

I did cry a little, though.

You can see a quick video on how I blended the sunflowers here (along with a preview of all the pages):

First, I started with a yellow-orange to create the depth of the petal.

I blended it out and filled in the rest of the petals with a yellow marker.

The seeds are different shades of brown in rich tones. The word “kinder” is filled in with a deep blue marker.

I also outlined the letters and added some detail using a white Sakura gelly roll pen.

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To help you get through this, we decided to pool together the huge amount of resources we have created over the years and to bring you one easy download so you can spend less time hunting and more time doing.

In this free printable boredom busters bundle, you’ll find the following:

• Loads and loads of adult coloring pages
• Kids crafts
• Cards
• Posters/activity prompts
• Journal Pages
• Brush Lettering Practice pages and drills
• Cleaning and organizing challenges
• Quarantine postcards and stickers

These free printable boredom busters were very generously contributed by the following artists:

Cristin April Fray lives in upstate New York with two rescue dogs, a rescue husband, and a teenage daughter. She lives on coffee, wine, and sarcasm and when she’s not doodling, you can find her doing something creative and being sassy because she loves to combine the two. Visit her at cristinaprilfrey.com | Facebook | Insta | Pinterest

Sarah Renae Clark creates coloring books, color palettes, printables and tutorials to help you release your inner artist and improve your coloring. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, Shane, their 2 beautiful boys, and their cat. Visit her at sarahrenaeclark.com | Facebook | Insta | Pinterest

And of course, some were contributed by me as well.

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A better look into your free printable boredom busters bundle:

Here are previews of some of the stuff you’ll see inside your bundle.

Adult coloring pages:

You’ll find loads and loads of adult coloring pages in varying levels of complexity. These are fantastic for tweens, teens, and of course grown-ups!

Find my best tools for adult coloring here!

Kids crafts and activities:

Between these sample printable color-n-craft puppets, color-in posters, and printable activity prompts, you’ll have days of entertainment covered.

More creative (and funny) fun:

Brush up on brush lettering, send a loved one a post card, start a journal, or decorate your planner with “tp crisis of 2020” survival stickers.

Organization tools:

Finally, when you start really going crazy from boredom, you might want to start Spring cleaning or decluttering. These two printables can help you get organized.

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There’s something about the fanciful nature about mushrooms that make them so much fun to color!

Whether we do it realistically, or bring in all our imagination, they are simply FUN!

This mushroom coloring page is no exception! The intricate and folksy doodles were illustrated by me digitally by hand – not digitally rendered, rather hand-drawn right into my Surface Pro using a Surface pen.

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Want to see more of this adult coloring page before downloading?

I always like to at least partially color a sample to showcase to you before you download.

In this case, I used these watercolor markers, mainly because I love using the real brush tip. You can actually watercolor your piece if you want, but I didn’t – I just used it as a regular marker.

To use it as a watercolor marker, you can either brush over it to blend (I recommend using a water brush for this as it’s much easier!) Or add water to the wells on a palette and dip your markers.

The way I intended this mushroom coloring page to be colored is by grouping color families. Of course, since it’s YOUR job to add color and not mine, just use my sample as inspiration but don’t get hooked on it! Be creative and add your own special touch.

You can even use coloring tools such as a gold paint marker or a glitter gel pen to add special touches. You can find my guide to how to color and coloring tools here!

When you’re done with your mushroom coloring page, you can frame it and hang it on the wall! Scan it and turn it into greeting cards for personal use. Decorate your art space, add it to your portfolio, or recycle.

As long as you relax while you color – mission accomplished!

If you love to color and relax, you’ll want to check out my coffee coloring pages – my most popular free printable to date!

If you haven’t yet, download the mushroom coloring page here!

And finally, check out more of my coloring books and pages below!

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I love pattern coloring pages because you can actually get quite creative with them.

First of all, you can use them in crafts after you color them. It’s almost like a “design your own paper”.

Second, on the ones that are complete patterns (and not the same icon repeating in a brick shape), you can get creative with the areas where the pattern meets.

In case you’re not sure what I’m talking about, I colored one square of the repeating pattern to show you. But I also colored one corner from the other 3 squares where the pattern meets.

Can you tell what the baseline square I used to make this pattern is? It’s the area where the four original squares of pattern meet that forms all sorts of cool designs.

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How I made this mini adult coloring book:

To make pattern coloring pages, I first illustrated the “base” pattern. I then imported it to Photoshop, where I created a repeating pattern.

So this pattern is NOT computer generated. It’s hand-drawn. And then the actual repetition was done digitally for the perfect blend of accuracy and artistry.

How I colored these adult coloring pages:

To color the little snippet that I did to demonstrate, I grouped my Stabilo Pen 68 markers into 3 color families that I chose to use – purples, greens, and blues.

One teal color floated between the blues and the greens.

I played on the relationship between the sides of the squares.

If you want suggestions on coloring tools, check out my favorite tools for adult coloring here.

And if you’re looking for more coloring pages for adults, I’ve got em for you here!

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If you’re the type that likes to skip over introductions and background, you can download the free printable right below! Your fall adult coloring page will land right in your inbox once you fill out the download form. If you don’t see it check your spam folder.

After you download it you’ll be taken right to a limited time offer for 40% off a huge bundle of downloadable coloring pages, including Postcards: Coloring Book for Creative Adults – the book that this free sample page comes from.

Now, for those of you who like the story behind the page…

Since the Coloring Tribe stopped creating monthly coloring pages, I’ve somewhat fallen off the free coloring page bandwagon – totally by accident.

I’m not a “trend follower”.

I don’t believe in ditching a trend once it’s passed – once I fall in love with a craft, I’ll stick to it (which might be why I do way more crafts than I can handle, but that’s for another time…)

So I’ve been trying to recommit to doing regular free adult coloring pages – it might not happen every month, but I’ll try for at least seasonal, kay?

Anyway, you can check out my past free printable adult coloring pages, or head on over to my post popular of all time – my coffee cups coloring pages! You’ll get most of these in an easy, instant download with your purchase of the coloring bundle as well. Once again, you can preview the bundle here (but you’ll get a 40% off limited time offer for this once you download this fall adult coloring page!)

About Postcards – the adult coloring book that this page comes from:

A while ago, I decided to create a new coloring book for adults called Postcards. The idea was to include not only nature scenes, but anything that can land on a postcard. These are coloring pages inspired by places and scenes, with most of the pages being landscape-focused, and a few “just for fun”.

The pages are full-sized coloring pages and are repeated in quarter-page size in the back so you can create them as actual postcards as well.

Just like most of my adult coloring pages, the point of most of these pages was to avoid the over-complexity that some adult coloring pages feature and focus instead on mature themes and designs, with some fun and quirky patterns thrown in. Some are simpler lines with patterns (like this one), some feature more realistic/drawing style line drawings (rather than patterns), and a few are more complex and challenging.

Since fall is a favorite season of mine, I decided to offer this fall adult coloring page as a free sample to my readers!

Download the free fall adult coloring page here:

Check out Postcards: Coloring Book for Creative Adults here!

Check out thePDF (printable) version of Postcards here!

After you download the freebie, you’ll have the option to download Postcards as part of a huge coloring bundle for 40% off – so keep that in mind if you plan to grab that incredible offer!

How I colored this autumn themed adult coloring page:

As always, I like to share how I colored a specific page… so here ya go!

This one was colored with STABILO Point 88 markers. They are my most relaxing option. I typically pick out my color families and color away!

I usually alternate color families, using the different shades throughout each pattern. With fall leaves, it’ll look gorgeous even if you just stick to reds and oranges, but you can also subdivide it into yellow-greens, yellow-oranges, and red-oranges, as well as orange-browns for more variation.

That’s all for now!

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There’s something about mandalas that make them one of my favorite relaxing coloring experiences.

Unlike more realistic pages that showcase actual real-life STUFF, mandalas can be colored mindlessly. Only I think they call it “mindfulness” but whatever.

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To color these free printable mandala coloring pages, I used mostly Stabilo Point 88 pens, with Pen 68 in black to fill in some background.

I first chose some color families and colored one section at a time, using different shades from the same family. No, I did not finish coloring it yet… it’s sitting on my dining room table, waiting to be finished!

If/when I do, I’ll definitely share it on Instagram.

I hand-illustrated the free printable mandala coloring pages using my Surface Pro.

What does that mean and why do I “cheat” and use digital means to illustrate my coloring pages?

I used to do everything entirely by hand. To tell you that the process took longer is an understatement. Even more so, the results were inconsistent and sometimes I spent hours just trying to keep the quality while sharpening the scanned artwork.

When I hand-illustrate onto my Surface, it means that I’m not using a computer-generated image. It’s the same intricate doodles you’re used to. Only, features such as line correction and the fact that I don’t need to rely on a scanner that pixelates it, mean that you’re getting a better, higher quality, more consistent image.

And even more so… that’s how I was able to offer four different designs in this free printable mandala coloring pages bundle! Because of the time-saving features included in the app I used, as well as the ability to create an image that’s good-to-go, I was able to create four pages in less time than it would take me to do one, while improving the quality!

So there you have it!

If you still haven’t, you can download the free printable mandala coloring pages below:

FYI: After you download this, you’ll be taken straight to a really cool limited time offer to buy almost all my coloring ebooks I’ve ever created – small and large bundles – in one easy download, and at a huge discount.

That includes not only more mandalas, but loads of coffee themed, nature themed, and inspiring coloring pages for adults.

If you land on the deal page, it means your mandalas should already be in your inbox – peek into your spam folder if you don’t see it.

 

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Enjoy, and don’t forget to share your finished artwork!

And if you want more coloring pages you can download, check out this bundle of coloring pages for girls 10 and up, or my famous coffee cups coloring pages.

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You can also find a four page bundle of free printable mandala coloring pages for adults if you prefer something more generic.

As a “boy mom” I’ve been asked multiple times why so much of my blog seems to be geared toward tween and teen girls.

The truth is, I’m not coming as a mom. I’m coming as the “big sister” who was in those shoes not that long ago. It’s hard to believe I’m 20 years past ten but it feels like just yesterday.

The truth is, that this blog is primarily about creating, and for teenage me, creating was survival. I won’t go too deeply into it, but the outlet that crafting brought for me was indispensable and integral to my development into a fully functioning adult, who contributes to society.

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The tween years are so complicated, and while I’m sure it’s the same for boys, I know what it’s like for girls.

I know that a girl needs to be told she’s beautiful, a beauty that comes from within. I know she needs to be taught that she has choices in life, that she can take life by the reins, do the right thing, and be in control of her future as well as her decisions.

I know what it’s like to endure subtle bullying – and  unsubtle taunting. I know how it is to wonder about the body you’re growing up in, to feel awkward, to wonder how beautiful I really am, to wonder what I can accomplish, what my future holds.

Crafting and creating was always that outlet that handed me something beautiful to hang onto. It was something that I can do and an actual result of my efforts, standing there before me. Even more so, it kept me busy, and, well, out of trouble…

These coloring pages for girls 10 and up are great for empowering the teen and tween set – and really for any age group. They have more mature designs than kid coloring pages and are include great statements to empower girls.

To color this, I recommend Stabilo Point 88 or Pen 68 markers (<— affiliate links). The Point 88 are the super thin points that are perfect for tiny spaces (fineliners) and the Pen 68 are just very small tip markers. They have rich colors, and are “grown up” enough to please your tween or teen.

Or, you can check out my list of the best tools for adult coloring for more great options.

Want more? You can find my mini ebook of ten motivating coloring pages for adults here – a bestseller in my Etsy shop!!

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Comment below: which is your favorite statement to repeat to yourself for motivation?

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