Fabulous Pieced Map Art Tutorial

Fabulous Pieced Map Art Tutorial By Creative Juices Decor

What fun to be able to do a guest post on Cassity's blog!

My name is Selina and I come to you from Creative Juices Décor.  What you will find on my blog is lots of inspiration for all your Creative Juices!  I am an interior designer by degree and LOVE home design/decorating, thrift store shopping, healthy recipes and crafting.  I have 3 young kids so I also have fun thinking of crafts for them to do.  Come stop by, I think you’ll be inspired! 

Today I am going to show you how I turned a $2.00 thrift store map into a large piece of art!

This project was inspired by wanting a large piece of art (on the cheap!) for my 7 year old son’s room.  I had picked up this map from the thrift store for $2 and knew if I got my Creative Juices flowing I could figure a great way to use it! I went to Michaels and picked up a bunch of canvases at 40% off.  I spent 29.00 on all 12.

Next I spray painted the edges with a left over blue from a previous project.  I am a sucker for anything AGED looking so I spray painted some brown on the edges too.

Once dry, I brushed on some Mod Podge and attached my cut out map pieces.

 

Once that dried (I turned them over to add some weight to the drying process) I wanted to age the edges just a little more so I took out my inking pad, or chalk pad, and “aged” the edges.  I also put a little brown glaze on the map itself to try to give it some more character. Anyway, once dry I came back and put Mod Podge over the top, quite thick,  and in criss-cross strokes.

VOILA!!!  Really, that wasn’t too hard.  Now I have a BIG piece of wall art for under 35.00! 

Stay creative with me folks – even if you didn’t find a map at a thrift store you could take this same technique and make a large canvas art display. Just apply Mod Podge to your photos and apply it to the canvas.  It makes it look like a designer print on canvas.  The possibilities are endless.  How about cutting out a favorite fabric and applying that to the canvas? 

Please stop by and I hope to continue to inspire all your Creative Juices!!!