I am really into the three R's right now - reduce, reuse, and recycle! What better way to embrace this philosophy than to find ways to use the paint colour cards that you can easily source at the hardware store! Don't you just love the names they give to all the paint colours?
Present gifts of cash or store vouchers more creatively this holiday season with these easy to whip up gift tags. I made these using colour cards I had on had - using seasonal colours would be more effective.
A paint colour card is trimmed and placed on top of a buff coloured tag (available from newsagents). Sew along the sides and bottom of the tag. Add a ribbon and you are done!
Tip: Use an old sewing machine needle as sewing on card can blunt the needle.
Check out Whimsy Love for this great Paint Sample Notebook Tutorial
Here are the ones I made:
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Posted by Lisa
43 comments:
Love these - and I have millions of paint samples as I can never make up my mind, so bring home every one in a shade when I go to repaint (and then can't find them when I get around to doing it, so it's repeat the process all over again!)
Kris
What a cute idea!
you always have the best ideas! I love paint cards, I love the way they feel and the cool names for the colors lol
i love paint samples too. you are amazing...such simple, but darling projects you come up with! love that recycling vibe too!!!
I am impressed, I find it so enjoyable to see what you come up with, they just look so good.
those are so cute! i love the paint color names, too.
I'm always amazed at how many paint colours are named after food. At various times I have had walls of banana daquiri, wasabi, lemonade and cotton candy. At the moment I must be in a garden because my walls sport wattyl orchid.
What a great idea I would never have thought to use those cards for anything never mind tags or notebooks.
lisa x
Those tags are adorable! I'll be linking to this post.
Terrific idea. I have tons of paint chips. One year my daughter got green ones and cut them into tree shapes and decorated them and used them for gift tags.
Very, very cute! Will file this idea away for future use!
Love them! We're all white in our house as the rooms are dark so we accessorise instead. I think there is a glimpse of my country curtains in one of my latest Oscar pictures on my blog... Good effort with the reduce/reuse/recycle though xx
Your tags are beautiful. What a clever idea.
What a great idea to use the paintcards for gifttags... Now I need to go find some in red and green :-)
A very nifty idea. The little notebooks look great. Thanks for the link.
cute idea!
:)
candy
they are fantastic. I love the idea of recycling stuff like that which would usually end up as rubbish
That's a very crafty idea...10 out of 10 for your 3 R's
Cute idea! We had loads hanging around when we painted our SA house. The colours of our walls were not very celebratory though LOL
LOVE this idea, well done! How many times have we all picked up samples from the paint store only to throw them in the bin and collect more later - recycling - love it!
What a creative idea! I love that it uses the paint cards. What a great way to reduce, reuse and recycle.
That is a great idea! I'm sure I have paint strips around somewhere!
Great ideas there. Anything to encourage the 3 Rs!
I bet you've got some more great ideas ?
Those are Wonderful!
Sandra
What a great idea. I love looking at all those paint chips.
You girls have the best ideas. I love to see what you come up with all the time......
love the ideas...i adore paint chips and charts etc...i think its because i love house painting...i know that sounds strange...but i really do love it...
That's my motto: Reduce, reuse, recyle. Lately I have been buying old kitchen cloths at "brocantes" instead of buying new ones at shops (they're MUCH better quality, by the way)
Wow - what a great idea - watch out Bunnings you may be cleaned out by crafty mummas
What a cool idea! They are so pretty too.
Mary
i am in love with this idea! wow! thanks for sharing!
You're a font of ideas there sugar girls! Fantastic! Jen
I too am a fan of paint sample cards and was always wondering what to do with them! Now I know-great ideas and thanks for sharing-and yes those names are fabulous!
You are a power house of designing ideas!!!!! What a great idea Lisa!!!!!
Love them!! What a super cute idea.
OOH sounds like an easy project my daughter and I could do together!
Oh man! I was at the paint store today... I should have read your post earlier in the day. What great ideas. Have an awesome weekend. I am having a little giveaway so come and visit.
Such a clever idea. I love the names it makes them sound so muuch more exotic.
What a fantastic idea. We recycle as well, and this idea is great.
Sarah J Doyle
http://PatternsThatFitYou.com
http://SewingBusiness.com - blog
Clever ideas - I love the 3 R's
These are fabulous. What fantastic ideas for gifts. Thanks for sharing them.
What a nice idea, it looks lovely!
Greetings, Carolien
what a good idea, and thanks for the link to yet another addictive blog!
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