Vintage Map Christmas Trees
I found these old maps at an estate sale and initially just loved that they were from the surrounding area. I'll admit, I bought them without actually knowing what I'd use them for. But for a whole stack for $1, I couldn't pass them up.
I found two maps that were green and red and got to working making them into Christmas decor!
After cutting the maps into triangles, I sewed a line down the middle of the triangle. After fanning out the pages, you could stop and have trees right from that. I made them into honeycomb shapes to give it some extra dimension. For details on how I made that work, head on over to my blog!
I added glass glitter to the edges of one of them, and left the other one as is. You could easily make these trees with any type of decorative paper, old books, or sheet music. I personally love the maps!
The red and green are definitely subtle, but give it a little Christmas touch.
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Great idea! glad I don't live in these hoarders houses! I assume they must be hoarders since they think everyone else should save everything
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I happen to be ONE OF THOSE HOARDERS, and I don't mind saying I love a good yard sale or tag sale find. I always have items to use for odd craft projects and I give TWICE LOVED gifts for most everything. I don't have the cash to buy new, but I have the creativity to make something that I put my heart into and lots of love. Everyone always loves my SECOND HAND projects they receive as gifts. One of my favorites is repurposing old index card boxes and making them into recipe boxes and clipping easy and fav recipes and taping the neat recipes I find in magazines & newspapers onto the cards throughout the year. I pass these on as shower gifts to new brides to be and also they make a great housewarming gift that took more than a few dollars and 5 minutes to buy at a store. Sometimes the gift is about the thought put into something more than the price tag. I am in LOVE with HOMETALK ideas.
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