Once you finally select Sharkey Gray over Francesca as your new living room paint color what to do with all those spare paint chips? Make tent cards of course! They're colorful and the paper is thick enough to stand without propping.
1 Use old paint cards to label dishes on a buffet table!
2 You can use them to identify meals for guests with specialty diets.
3 A tent for the Carrot Cake.
4 This one ID's the Confetti Rice.
- When can you use a tent card? I use mine to identify foods on a buffet table, no more mistaking wasabi for guacamole. At our last family pot luck to let guests know what was in the dish I simply folded the paint chips in half then wrote on them.
- At other gatherings, where guests have specialty diets, I've simply used a single color to clearly identify the vegan dishes. Identifying foods is not the only use, they make colorful and creative place cards. Try them for your next sit down dinner.
- In addition to tent cards you can use them as gift tags. Simply cut a circle from the colored section then punch a hole. String a ribbon through then write to/from and you're done!
- Lastly if you're looking for some confetti to fill a party pinata look no further. Grab a hole punch like this star shaped one by Martha.
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Until next time keep it simple and clutter-free!
Jamie Novak, The World’s Most Relatable Organizer, is author of "Stop Throwing Money Away: Turn Clutter to Cash, Trash to Treasure—And Save the Planet While You're at It." Please visit her website at JamieNovak.com.
From: Jamie Novak | 10/25/10 at 12:53 pm
What's the last room you painted? What did you do with your leftover chips?
I recently re-painted the main bathroom (seaglass).