Paint Chip Challenge (& freebie)

Join the challenge in the thread in the forum here!

I have seen many great layouts by traditional paper scrapbookers who utilize paint chips that can be found at any store selling paints for free. What a great accent to a page for free! Traditional scrapbookers can get pretty creative with them. How creative can you get?

Here are some s for you in ways that you can utilize a paint chip.

1. Use it as a tag for a title. Write across the whole paint chip or write one word in each square.
2. Cut into squares and hang from a ribbon or rope as a title
3. Punch a hole in one end, thread ribbons, and cut in the shape of a tag
4. Cut it into pieces and position it into a square mat
5. Cut into corner pieces around a photo
6. Use it for journaling
6. Cut into thin strips and create a border around the entire layout
7. Add a piece of vellum and stickers to it
8. Use two pieces of it next to a white square to make a journal box
9. Punch shapes into it
10. Use them as a mat behind photos
11. Use them to ground your layout, reaching from one edge of the layout to the other
12. Grunge up the edges; ink up the edges; sand the edges
13. Cut into thin strips and use to accent layout
14. Cut into thin strips and use as borders between photos
15. Rip/tear the paint chip
16. Use an overlay with the paint chip

I am including my .png file for you to use, as well as the .psd file so that you can use it as a template to put in your own colors.


Click here to download.

I scrapped! I cannot believe it! Scrapping can be good therapy! Don't I say it all the time? Just by doing this layout, I feel so much better. I'm beginning to get motivated again to bring you good stuff!

I did this layout to choose the winner of the Title Game, as well as to do the paint chip challenge.

I did not cut up the paint chip and really did not get all that creative with it. I did find it stark on my layout, so I made a selection of the chip and used the selection to cut the background paper. I placed the cut paper over the chip and used the soft blending mode to get the chip to match the rest of the grungy layout better. Thereater, I merged the layers and duplicated the strip to move to other areas of the layout.

I used Flergs 6k74 kit for everything else on the page. It is one of the prizes for the Scrap the Guys contest!