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Chip It Progress

Using the Chip It! button has been so fun.  Have you tried it yet?  I’ve almost changed my mind a dozen times about the colors to use in our guest room, but I’m sticking with my Ruby picture.  I loved that chicken, and I love the colors in the Chip It! palette, and I want the guest room to remind me of Ruby.

Since we now have 25 pet chickens and when someone comes to visit they want to meet the chickens right off the bat, I’m thinking of using a chicken theme in the room.  The walls are going to be painted the Sand Beach color.  I would love to use the Rockwood Medium Brown for the trim, but I think we’re going with the White Flour for the baseboards and window trim.

For the bed, I think I have a quilt that will coordinate with the palette (I need to do some more unpacking), and if not, I’ll make a new quilt.  It was easy to match fabrics to the palette colors.  Also, I ordered dust ruffles since the bed is so tall. I ordered a long tan one and a shorter eyelet-type one, and I think both of those will go great with the Chip It! palette.

A couple of decorating items have been purchased for the walls.  Everywhere we go, the printed Chip It! palette goes with me.  The last trip we made to Abilene, I found some little cabinets that had a couple of shelves and a couple of baskets.  I’d like to go back and get two of those and paint them using the Rockwood Medium Brown.  The baskets had a plain liner, and my friend Doris suggested using chicken fabric to make new liners for them.  I may go back to Abilene to get those.  The bed in this room is an old bed and it’s really high, so while a traditional night stand is too low, the cabinets I found would be perfect.

If you haven’t done so already, check out the Chip It! video and then drag the Chip It! button to your bookmarks bar:

Chip It!

If you love it like I love it, you’ll be wanting to repaint your whole house, room by room, several times each day!

Tell me about an image you’d like to “chip” (include a link to the image, if you like!) and you’ll be entered to win a $1,000 Visa gift card and $200 Sherwin-Williams gift card.

Rules:

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d) For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.

Entries from all participating blogs will be pooled for winner selection; only two entries per household.

This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

The Official Rules are available here.

This sweepstakes runs from 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012.

Be sure to visit the Sherwin-Williams brand page on BlogHer.com, where you can read other bloggers’ posts!

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  1. I know your room is going to be really nice. I love the idea that it helps coordinate your colors, and able to take those colors with you to find accessories.

    Sibyl

  2. Could not get access to the rules from your blog so I’ll just chance leaving a post here for the contest. I love to paint! I know most people think that;s crazy but I do like to paint. My husband just leaves it to me because he hates to paint. I have some psinting that needs to be done but I’m waiting on the heat wave to go away. A gift card sure would help.

  3. Could not see whatever (picture, I think) in between first and second paragraphs.

  6. I would use a picture of Ayers Rock in Australia. I love those earth tones. Beth

  7. I have no idea what I could chip – I’m just hearing about this cool thing! There are about a thousand different quilts and or fabrics that I just love that would probably do the trick. YEAH! I could totally get the perfect paint for my bedroom in the new house if I chipped the quilt I’m binding now for the bed! Thanks!

  9. This looks like it will be FUN! Now to find the pictures I want!

  10. Painting is so fun and exciting and Chip It so entertaining with whatever picture you choose and the colors that come up.

  11. Found your blog from kay’s blog and fell in love with Chip-it. It will help with my quilting and knitting as well as home decor when i move this year. I will be making all new quilts for the new space.

  13. Oh sour dough pizza, sounds to die for!! I made homemade pizza last night myself, I put zucchini on it, along with sausage (homemade), onions and green peppers. We really liked the zucc on it! Try it, you’ll like it!

  15. I took this photo on the way home one afternoon:
    http://ifyoucouldseewhatisee.blogspot.com/2012/04/scattered-showers-tuesday-i-was-driving.html

    Ever since I have been trying to figure out how to incorporate some of those stormy blues into my bathroom. I love the way chip it picked up a bunch of blues and none of the green, since I don’t plan on planting any green in the room. Then again, maybe I’ll crop the picture and force it to pick up the green one day. 😉

    I am loving this new button on my toolbar!

    Also? I love you. Anyone who could love a chicken and create a room in her memory is a gal after my own quirky heart.

  18. One of my all time prints – http://timcox.com/1131.html – this one hangs in our bedroom.
    We have restored an old rock building – circa 1910 – into a studio and I was asked to go to Sherwin-Williams (husband is a contractor) and pick out the colors I wanted. Can’t wait to try Chip-It!!!!

  19. I have played with it … my daughter told me about it (of course she did) … and it’s such fun!! My sweet DIL is in the process of creating a new nursery … we’d probably use a tropical underwater scene — filled with blues and corals and all the exotic colors that includes!! 🙂

  21. What a coincidence! A few years ago, I attended the local County Fair, where a photographer had set up a booth. I bought a photo of chickens that I thought would be a great palette for a quilt. It’s a close-up of chickens sitting on a barn window edge — the barn is nearly white, it’s dark behind them, and the chickens are a golden color, with reddish-orange the color of Ruby on their wings nearest their bodies, upper back and neck. Their wingtips are dark, maybe a blue/black, with some gold feathers interwoven. They have the red top, one has gray legs, the other, light brown. I wish I could scan it well enough to Chip It! I use Chip It! all the time now, especially since I’m trying to decide on a new kitchen color! Thanks (I guess) for recommending it — now I get to spend even more time online 🙂

  22. I would use a picture of wheat harvest time in Oklahoma. The colors of the best time of year: light golden wheat, blue skies, red roads, farmers tans….

  23. I want to chip some photos of Ireland and the rolling hills that I captured! Thanks for a super giveaway!
    My email: anashct1 [at] yahoo [dot] com

  32. the yellow roses at my local arboretum
    tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com

  38. I’d use one of our pictures from Florence. That’s the best color combo I’ve seen. Probably the Duomo.

    ky2here at msn dot com

  47. Need to chip away at my 80’s family room – remnant 80’s border, chipping paint – needs some renovation love pronto!
    tvollowitz at aol dot com

  48. I want to chip the quilt made out of blue fabric that my grandmother made for me.

  49. I would love to chip a monster high image for my daughters bedroom. sweepmorey at gmail dot com

  51. i’d chip a picture of the ocean – love the natural colors of water and sand on a beach

  54. I have a picture that we took while at the ocean a few years ago, and I would love to pull all those beautiful colors in!

  56. I have two images I’d like to use to create a color palette for my bedroom. One is a photo of a wedding ring quilt with vibrant colors and the other is a quilt I made that has neutral greens and tans. I’d like to see if I could use both of them to create a new look for my room.

  57. I am really into old family photos, and I have a bunch of my grandparents’ kitchen in the 1950s and 1960s. It would be so fun to get some of these pictures “chipped,” and to recreate a look from the old days on my walls.

    amyzak11 (at) gmail (dot) com

  59. I’d chip the image of my new house, which we just put an offer in for today! Thanks!

  64. chrisdeglen tweeted:
    twitter.com/chrisdeglen/status/225991808222625792
    chrisdeglen(at)gmail(dot)com

  66. would like to chip a photo of our living room that is due for a makeover.

    brich22 at earthlink dot net

  68. I would love to chip a pic of a bird

    itsjustme62613 at gmail.com

  73. I would love to chip an image of an accent pillow I have to help finish the rest of my bedroom.

  74. Oh, I would totally chip a chicken! My partridge plymouth rock Alice has gorgeous colors.

  75. i’d chip my bubble lamp.
    we love our chickens, too! In fact last winter our power was out for an extended time and it was soooo icy cold… they all came inside (in super large packing boxes) and stayed in our living room over night. they loved the wood stove,lol. only time i’ve ever heard our chickens make sounds like a cat purring!

  77. i have a photo of my best friends’ tulips that i would love to chip!

  79. We are about to remodel our bedroom in the Fall. I have no idea or images yet, but I will absolutely be using chip it when I find pics that inspire me

  84. I LOVE the color of light blue hydrangeas–I would love to have my bedroom painted in that color. It would be so calming and refreshing.

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