Paint chips...

Click: peanut gallery

then

click: post search and enter: paint chips in the section called: Where Title contains

leave the rest as is and then hit the Search button.

You will be taken to a page that has several examples.

Hope this helps,

Donna

Thanks Donna,

I hadn't thought of looking there so that was a great board upside the head :) I go to the 2peas site all the time but forget about the gallery...

-CC

I hadn't thought of using paint chips. I might have to try that one.

-- Mel Jansen

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Okay, that was a first for me too. Where do you get the paint chips from? It looks like the paint colors you get from the paint store. Is this what they are? Irene/Fl

Yes Irene...that is exactly what they are! freebies...lol

Are paint chips acid/lignin free?

Kellar

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In the reading/research I've been doing on them, some are and some aren't. You'd have to test individual ones to see and then either spray them with archival spray, buffer them, or use them separate from photos... I'm thinking mosaicing might by fun with them and then of course using them in my home improvement pages for our home... it'll be a great way to keep track of the paint colors we've chosen, etc...

-CC

KOOL! Irene

that's a great idea about keeping track of the paint colors you use! I try to throw the paint chips into my HOME file folder so at least I can hunt for it if I need.

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I like the Ralph Loren chips for the suede and river rock paints. They are nice big squares with no writing on the top side. I've been raiding Home Depot. Peggy

I can just see the newspaper headlines now...

Home Depot keeps paint samples under lock & key due to wavw of scrapbooking maniacs in search of freebies!!!

OK, that was supposed to be wave not wavw...

And I used paint samples on Matthew's nursery pages and plan to use them when I do his playroom too!

Same for countertop and laminate samples - I've seen those used on pages too, but not sure how abundant they are.

Oh wow Dawn! The Navy you used for his room looks almost exactly like the navy we used on our guest room which is intended some day to be our nursery! It's not the exact same color since ours is called "cerulean blue" or something like that (have to go back to wally world and get a chip for the book!) but it's almost the same color it looks like! I hadn't thought about laminate samples! I'll have to check those out too! And I wonder about old wallpaper books!!! Hmmm... Gonna have to go to the home improvement store and take a better look around!

-CC

I hadn't thought about laminate samples! I'll have to check

I don't understand where people are getting these laminate chips. Most stores have the chips on a chain and you can most definitly *not* take a chip off the chain. At least you shouldn't be anyway.

Home Depot has laminate swatches in the kitchen section and they even are shaped like tags with the hole and all. I was going to use them for the quote swap but they are on a wood base and the wood tested acid. I can still use them for cards. They look good with a collage of embossing powder. I used some mettalic and aqua glittery powders and glued some small shells to it. That worked. Peggy

Jenn and others,

Try going to a millwork store (cabinetry and such), they have 'tons' of laminate chains. I work in Construction and everytime a subcontractor has to submit 'samples' to the Owners for their approval, in comes a CHAIN of laminate samples. When the owner chooses, they take their one sample and return the chain to me. Most of our subcontractors don't want/care for the chain back - I just confirm the color choice.

SOooooooooooo.....should any of you like a few samples, just e-mail me and tell me what you like best - granite/rock look, wood look, solid colors, whatever, and I will gladly mail some to you. They are, indeed, plastic laminate on wood backing, but they make great tags if you don't place them close to your pix!

Ask away, ladies (and gents). I am more than willing to share. :)

Dianne in Virginia Beach

lmao

scrapbooking

LOL

I suspect they'll start selling the paint chips once they notice the scrappers taking so many. It will be one of those things we'll tell our Grandchildren... "When I was a kid I had to walk 10 miles in the blinding snow to get a paint chip and they were free!"

Lynne