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Alright... bear with me while I try to explain what I'm looking for. I don't want to recreate the wheel if it's already been done!
I am looking for something with the colors by family to help me organize the lid of my crayon tin. I know, it's a bit much... but I figure that I can't be the only one who likes to be this organized!
PLEASE!!! If you have a solution or a template or something, let me know!
Thanks
Can you explain a little more in detail what you want? Is it a color chart for the inside of the Watercolor Crayon lid? Like cardstock cut to the size of the lid, and a chart you can fill in with the crayon colors, like we have for the markers and inks? That would be cool!
Funny, I was thinking about that yesterday, lol! But, I had to leave that in the "some other day" file. I did take the time to turn all the crayons so that the English language color name faced up. They're not as easy to read as an insert would be though...
Hi, I don't have any bright ideas for what your looking for; but I am very curious about the watercolor wonder crayons. Do they work good? are they better than the pencils? I have 60.00 in free stuff comming and wonder if it would be worth blowing it all on them? give me your advice.
Thanks
Lara
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I think they left the lid empty with no insert so you can use it as your palette if you want. You can scribble on the lid and pick it up with the aquapainter or mix colors on the lid.
I also use the lid as a palette and I think I read somewhere that's what they were demoing at convention. I just got my crayons last week and can't put them down!
I got my crayons with my free $60.00 too. Thought that I wouldn't really use them but would try them for 'free'. HA! I can't stop playing with them & would buy them now in a heart beat! I agree about the insert~ I actually was looking for one. I haven't even started coloring the stamps, I just love using the aquapainter & blending the colors.
My solution, and I don't have them yet, would be to get an extra copy of the Summer Mini and cut off the last page. That way you've got a color chart with all 4 color families on it, and it SHOULD fit in the lid, right?
What I did, is take my Brother P-touch labeler and put a label on each crayon, and then also on each "cradle" where they sit - so I know where each crayon will go. The label on the crayon is easier to read! HTH ;)
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What I did, is take my Brother P-touch labeler and put a label on each crayon, and then also on each "cradle" where they sit - so I know where each crayon will go. The label on the crayon is easier to read! HTH ;)
What a great idea! I'm such a geek, I got totally excited when I read your suggestion. I used my labeler everywhere! I may wait to label my crayon "cradle" until I really get a feel for how I use them. If I just pick up the color directly from the crayon I won't need to label the cradle...but maybe I will anyway just because I'm such a geek
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perhaps you could print off the color names vertically so that they align with the crayons when the lid is closed.. print it on a transparency, that way you can still use the lid to mix colors?
Just use a pop dot or something like that to keep the transparency in place.
I missed seeing Karens suggestion, and hers is really good too.
What a great idea! I'm such a geek, I got totally excited when I read your suggestion. I used my labeler everywhere! I may wait to label my crayon "cradle" until I really get a feel for how I use them. If I just pick up the color directly from the crayon I won't need to label the cradle...but maybe I will anyway just because I'm such a geek
I put it in the cradle because at my open house I had different crayons at different stations, and had a bit of "oh where does this one go!" when I was cleaning up. :rolleyes:
__________________ A bad day stamping is better than a good day house cleaning! Karen D My Etsy store
I am not sure if this is what you want. I organized my colored pencils in a nice wood silverware seperater box, the kind you would put into a drawer. Each color family is in a seperate compartment and the other one is for frequently used color that do no fall into the color families. I got in at Target for about $10.
You guys are soo full of great ideas!!!! I hadn't checked back into my own thread for a while... Thank you for all of your suggestions!!!!
Backyard stamper - if you're still checking this one and haven't already spent your $60... I highly recommend the crayons! That's how I got mine was with my "free $$" and I look at it as a way to have all of the colors without investing in all of the stamp pads... yet.
I love my crayons and now think that I am going to have to go buy one of those labelers. I've been borrowing a friends and now I want my own!!!!!
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Watercolor Crayons tray organizer
