A Special Personalized Gift Made From Old Maps
5 Materials
$5
30 Minutes
Easy
Maps are lovely to craft with. They are a fantastic way to turn something ordinary into something special and personalized. They can trigger happy memories of places close to our hearts.
As I gift for my husband, I made him a little heart-shaped map of the two places special to us and put it in an IKEA frame I hacked.
These map hearts would make a lovely gift for any couple, on their anniversary or even as a wedding gift. Or even a birthday present.
I used an IKEA Ribba frame a roadmap and a map printed from the internet for this gift.
For me and my husband, our special places are Hong Kong as that is where I was born and bought up. And for my husband, it was Bergen in Norway as that is where his family is from.
I had a Norwegian roadmap, but the Hong Kong map I had to google and print from the internet.
I cut out a heart shape map of each of the places. You can do this either by drawing round a template first or by using a large heart punch like this one.
Cut each of your hearts in half and then stick one half of each map together on a paper background to make one map heart made of the 2 different places.
To prepare the frame. I first spray painted it with gold paint.
Once the gold paint was dry, I smothered vaseline on the bits where I wanted the gold to show through before painting the frame with red chalk paint.
When the chalk paint was dry, I rubbed off the red where the vaseline was so the gold paint could shine through. I then gave the frame a protective wax coat.
I love how the framed heart turned out and my husband loved it too. It makes me smile every time I see it on the wall as it triggers those special memories.
I have also used the heart punch I used for this to make a gorgeous vintage heart map garland which you can see here.
Maps of what special places would you use for your map heart?
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
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4 comments
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Aww that's so sweet. I'll bet your husband loves it!
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very creative - great idea!
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Thank you 😊
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