real life pin: with the odd girl

 

 

My real life pin is up over at the odd girl today.

It all started awhile back when I “pinned” this image.

If you are a regular follower then you know I bought a motor
home and have been traveling with Kevin {my boyfriend} and my parents.

My
parents have a racecar you can find out more about that here, and here.

 Since April 16^th
I have driven {been the passenger}

over 10thousand miles, across the country.

I
am currently on the last trip of the race season.

 

As I was traveling across country I’m sure I was on one of

my many mobile devices, trying to stay connected

to the rest of the world.

 

I found the above image and loved it.

I knew it would be a
great way to document my travels.

 

In July I got the assignment from Simple Scrapper,

to scrap a layout
using a map.

I was so excited for this layout to be created.

 

1. I love maps

2.
I have traveled so much this year it would be super easy

3. I immediately knew
I had pinned this image, and wanted to try it.

 

And that is why I am calling
this my real life pin.

 

I pinned & I recreated the pin!

And now for my tutorial.

 

I thought about how I would recreate this for a while,

and
the first attempt worked

{so thankful for that, not all my ideas work! lol}

I went to AAA and got a map of
the United States.

Now I wasn’t sure if this would work, so the girl gave me 3
maps to fuss with.

{I am a member and with a membership you get free maps}

I was afraid that the cities/towns wouldn’t be the right
size with the punch,

or I might end up cutting through a town that I needed to
punch,

blah, blah, blah.

 

I wrote out a list of states/towns we slept in.

It ended up
we almost stayed in every state we drove through.

 

I didn’t have a large heart punch so I went out and bought
3. I didn’t know what size would be good,

and you can always use a heart punch,

so I got all 3 and ended up using the largest
one I found.

 

I located the towns/cities/states and started punching.

Some
of the states we stayed in multiple places.

I decided to make little flags with
the town/cities on them.

 

I found a font I liked and
typed all the info out.

I cut them up into flags as small as I could.

After I punched the hearts from the map I ironed the hearts
to get the creases from the folds out.

I just used the iron on a low setting.

 

I wanted the hearts to have a bit of dimension,

so I punched
some more hearts from cardstock and glued the map hearts to

the cardstock
hearts to give them stability.

 

I went to lay the hearts out on a 12x12 piece of card stock,

and I realized I had to many hearts for 1 piece of cardstock.

 

With my left over
map,

I knew there were other places I would be traveling through out 2012 so I
punched those places too.

 

I then attached my little flags with my tiny attacher

{little tiny staples for little tiny
flags}

With the all of the places on my traveling agenda punched,

I
laid out all my hearts and I was able to fit in a title for a 2-page layout.

I
was only required to have one pager,

and I needed it finished by a certain
date.

I finished the left side of the page. And this is what it looks like.

When my travels are done this year I will finish the right side,

it’s all ready
to go

{I just didn’t want to finish it incase our agenda changed, I wanted the
places to be correct}

I currently am in Pennsylvania, and I drove through Arkansas,

Tennessee and Virginia to get here.

So you can see I will have no problem
completing the 2^nd page!

Hope you enjoyed this project. If you have any questions
please ask away