Swatching my Colored Pencils

I've been looking for a way to keep a swatch collection for my colored pencils for a while. I have shopped various art supply shops and found some very nice swatch books but have always felt they were lacking something that I was looking for. Too big, too small, what if you add or subtract colors from your collection? I wanted something that I could customize as I went. So, I pulled out a little of my graphic design background, my experience working in the print industry and my Cricut.

Here is what I came up with:

• Each color will have its own card.
• I will be able to take them off the ring if I need to.
• I can reorganize them if I want. If pencils are added to my collection.
  
• I can place them in an order that makes sense to me.
  
• I can also remove colors if pencils are discontinued in the future.
  
• Each card is only 3 in. x 3 in. so they do not take up a lot of room.
• I can use different paper for the cards to do other media such as watercolors or inks.

I have discovered that the Cricut pen I have contains an ink that is NOT water resistant, so I will need to do some more research on that before making swatch cards for any wet media, but for my colored pencils (which I have a ton of) this has been a fantastic solution!