Paint Sample Card Notepads… and more

On Sunday I set out on the craft/design blog trail, and found this tutorial on making notepads out of paint sample cards. I knew I had a couple, so I went rifling through the house renovation folders and grabbed anything to do with paint.

Turned out I had two sample cards:
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I also have a paper cutting doovy, which I bought years and years ago. I also had lots of lined binder paper which I haven’t used since I was at Tafe:
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A bit of cutting, folding and stapling later, and I had these:
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Feeling pretty chuffed, I looked at the paint catalogues. Surely I could make something out of these. This one in particular had potential, because the ‘chips’ were painted on, not stuck on:

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Each page was perfect for folding in half into a notebook cover. Well, except for the last one – the ‘Whites’. I cut it in half and glued it back together with a complimentary picture on the back.

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More cutting of lined paper, then I went to staple the notebooks at the spine. Except… the stapler doesn’t reach:

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Solution: some foam core and a stapler that folds open:

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Which gets the staple through (after a few attempts):

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And then you fold the ends in by hand:

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And now I have four recycled paint catalogue notebooks.

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