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By Lin Newcombe

Like any crafts person, my work space is

full of little bits and pieces that ‘I might need

one day’. Well after doing some decorating, I

couldn’t bear to throw away all the little paint

colour swatches I had accumulated when trying

to decide on the colour scheme. I have now

found them to be fabulous for craft work.

Materials Required:

Old paint colour swatch cards.

Teddy paper punch: PPU80.

Scraps of paper and corrugated paper in

various colours.

Ribbon and ribbon bows.

Craft knife and ruler.

Cutting mat.

Standard hole punch.

Deckle edged scissors.

P.V.A. Craft adhesive.

Card Mount: DEC4U-27, Bright Blue (or to

match your swatch).

To Make The Card:

The swatches I had were mostly ones which

have different shades of the same colour in a

strip with white bands between them. I decided

to use one colour swatch for the background,

with the teddies and deckled strips cut from a

contrasting swatch.

So the first thing to do is choose two swatches

which look really good together, in the main card

mine are dark blue and yellow.

Having chosen the swatches, select a card

mount and some scraps of paper to make a back-

ground in colours that work with them. It’s a bit

like decorating then choosing the furnishings etc.

to match the room, but on a much smaller scale

and you don’t have to live with your mistakes.

Using a sharp craft knife

and a ruler, cut the white edges

off of the swatch which you

intend to use as the background

piece. Cut the swatch to a good

length for the size of card you

are using, I found three panels

were perfect on the 88mm x

114mm card.

Cut a background oblong

of card so it is just a couple

of millimetres bigger than the

trimmed swatch all round, then

a second piece (if desired) to

approximately 2mm bigger all

round than the last piece.

Glue the larger background

centrally onto the front panel of

the card then the smaller piece

and the swatch centrally on top

of this.

Punch one teddy from three

different shades in the contrast-

ing swatch. Place them onto

the background swatch but

don’t glue them on just yet. On

the blue card I put the lighter

teddies on the top and bottom

panels and the darker one on the centre, but the

opposite way round in the peach/brown card.

Using the deckled scissors, cut two strips

of colour from the teddy swatch, making them

wide enough to cover the white bands on the

background swatch. Cut the strips to length and

glue them into place.

Place the teddies at slightly different angles

on the panels and glue them into position.

Decorate the

corner using a

ribbon bow if

desired.

You can also make really stylish bookmarks

and gift tags using the same basic method. The

bookmarks will need an extra panel or two of

swatch for the background because they are

longer. Why not try adding extra elements such

as gold or silver foiled paper for the punchouts

or a mix of three colour swatches rather than

just two.

The tags use just one panel, to give them a

little more interest and depth, use several layers

of background, make one of them from corrugat-

ed paper for added texture as well. Try a row of

bears using a very tiny bear punch and deckle

cut the back-

ground for a

different effect.

Both the

bookmarks and

these tiny gift

tags need a

hole punched

in one corner

for threading

the ribbon

through.

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