One of my very good friends recently bought her first home, so I spent some time last weekend helping her decide on paint colors for all the rooms in the house. Of course, you can’t help someone else pick out paint without grabbing a few swatches for yourself (if I had the time/talent, the rooms in my house would change color wayy too often), but what’s a girl to do with a variety of pretty paint swatches if she’s not actually painting anything? Well, let me show you some awesome options — and yes, I’m talking about those free paint swatches you grab at Lowe’s or Home Depot…
1. Create Wall Art
(Via Addicted 2 Decorating & The Crafty Scientist)
2. Design a Party Banner
(Via A Bit of Sunshine)
3. Make Party Garland
(Via Etsy, Little Bit Funky and Grace and Light)
4. Scrapbook
(Via Elle’s Studio and AliLilly)
5. Design Bookmarks & Gift Tags
(Via Bella Carta)
What other cool uses of paint swatches have you seen?
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HI!
I love these ideas – very clever.
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Elise
Of course it’s okay :) Thanks for sharing!
Love, love, love these ideas! How cute. Check out this use of color samples. Has to be the best one ever. http://livethefinelife.blogspot.com/2011/07/painted-ladies.html
Oh my! These are AMAZING :)
These are wonderfully creative ways to use color swatches! I hope you don’t mind if I pin them. Please let me know if you would like for me to remove the pin.
Of course you can pin them! Pinterest is actually how I found them all to begin with :) Thank you so much for sharing my post!