Creative Tuesday ~ Make a Paint Chip Gift Tag

 {Post courtesy of Caroline, a TerraSavvy contributor who also creates on her blog, Salsa Pie.}

Today I would like to share with you an easy project for making your own holiday gift tags. I am loving the look of this holiday season already emerging online : grays and browns mixed with bursts of neon pinks and greens are popular combinations.

I made about 10 tags in less than 10 minutes. Here’s how you can too:

You Will Need: 

Paint Chip Samples

Scissors

Sewing Machine and Thread

Step 1

Get organized, lay out your paint chips and decide which ones you’d like to use. For the single paint chips, you’ll need to sew them together. For those with multiple colors in a row, you’ll simply cut out the shape, cutting through all the colors. Go ahead and thread your sewing machine at this point too and have it ready for action.

Step 2

Cut triangle shapes out of your paint chips. There are no hard rules here just make sure you work around the writing on the paint chips, avoiding including any lettering in your cut-outs.

Step 3

Sew multiple triangles together starting from the base and sewing a line towards the tip (Pro Tip: tape the triangles together on the backside with a think sliver of clear tape before sewing) Continue sewing all the way through the tip of the triangle then continue sewing pulling the thread so that a long twisted string remains at the tip of the triangle. You can use this string to tie on the tag! If you are sewing just one triangle repeat these same steps, sewing from the base all the way to the tip.