map mad

I spent yesterday playing with maps.

It was great fun!

It has been on my to do list for a very long time.

I had a heap of old maps, some were my aunts, some were from Freecycle.

So on Monday night I sat down with an old map and my bunting proforma ie. a triangle cut from card and starting tracing and cutting the map into triangles. 

I used pinking shears rather than straight scissors after consultation with B3 who happened to be in the room at the time and said the pinking sheared triangle looked better.

(OOPS looks like I need to go back and rub out some lines!)

On Tuesday morning I laid them out on the table to get an order I liked, then I ironed them because they had crease marks from where they had been folded. 

I then simply folded down the top and glued it over a piece of string.

 Voila in no time at all I had some map bunting to hang in the study.

 Next I thought I would tackle this tray that I op shopped before Christmas.

First I sanded it lightly, gave it two coats of white paint and then distressed it.

I love distressing - its great way to cover up a bad paint job.

I then mod podged an old map onto it.

It is of Spain and Portugal and is in Spanish.

It's the first time I have ever used Mod Podge.

 After it was dry I kept coating it with some mod podge to seal it and give it a shine.

I will also spray some varnish over it when I get to town and by some more today.

My next project was to cover some biscuit tins in maps.

First I sprayed the top of the tin and the lid with silver- I would have used white but I had run out and when I am in the midst of a project I can't wait, so I just keep going with the next best thing.

I then cut and stuck on the map, again using mod podge.

Next I cut out a circle for the lid and glued that on.

 I have done two but can't complete the third until I have visited Bunnings for some more spray paint, because guess what - I ran out of silver as well!

I then upcycled VCH's beer holder into a holder for the above tins.

 I painted it white and then distressed it and wrote on the blackboard paint with my new best friend, my liquid chalk pen.

I am hoping this will go in our new home school area that I am about to set up for the middle two next week, after a very exciting trip to IKEA with VCH on Saturday in the ute and without children!

We only get to go once every twelve months or so- as it is 3 1/2 hrs away, just south of Brisbane, this will also involve some time travel as Queensland doesn't have daylight saving. 

If there is one thing I miss about not living in Brisbane it's IKEA and if there is one thing I don't miss it's the lack of daylight saving!

My final project for the day

was making these magnets out of maps, clear glass stones, mod podge and magnets.

Here's a close up.

For more info on how to do it click here

I am on a role, I have a few more things I would like to cover with maps- so stay tuned!

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