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 16th
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 2nd page!
Hope you enjoyed this project. If you have any questions
please ask away
