Traveling Hearts Wall Art

Brian and I love to travel.  We have been together for almost three years now and in that time we have already traveled to Buffalo NY, New York NY, Portland ME, Nantucket MA, Boston MA, Hampton Beach NH, Cape Cod MA, Atlantic City NJ, Nashville TN, Chicago IL, New Orleans LA, Fairhope AL, Columbus OH, Pittsburgh PA, Provincetown MA, Newport RI and more together.  Because of our love of travel and our great memories of the places we've visited I wanted to make something to remind us every day of those trips.   I saw something that inspired this project on Pinterest or StumbleUpon, I can't remember which, and decide it was perfect. Here is the how-to for my Traveling Hearts Wall Art... hope you like it!

SUPPLIES:

• Decorative Picture Frame
• An Atlas or Maps (of the places you'd like to include)
• A Heart Stencil
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue
• Ruler
• Scrapbook Paper

DIRECTIONS:

1) Take the map of your choice and your heart stencil and trace the heart around the area of the city or place you'd like on your wall art.  For example, place the heart over the map of a section of Cleveland and trace it.  I chose six different locations but you can do it as many times as places you'd like to be framed. I placed mine in the order of a six pack of soda because I liked the space between and a more organized, less cluttered  layout but you can get creative with your placement also.


2) Cut out the map hearts.


3) Paste the mapped hearts to the scrapbook paper in the location you want them. Again, mine is two across and three down like a six pack but whatever way you choose will work.  Also, make sure you have measured the scrapbook paper to fit the back of the frame, I usually take the image that the frame comes with, cut it out and trace it onto my scrapbook sheet.  Then I cut out the scrapbook sheet and it's always a perfect fit.  


4) Put your paper with the hearts glued on it in the frame, hang and you're done.

Here is ours... 

We chose:

Chicago           Portland ME        

           Fairhope AL         Boston 

                

New Orleans  &   Pittsburgh

What places would you choose? Maybe a timeline of your life? First date to proposal to wedding and so on? Could be neat!

Bookmark

I was wasting some time and flipping through pages on either Pinterest or StumbleUpon and saw the cutest little bookmarks! I actually made a bunch of them for gifts for my family and friends. You can use any design for the paper and any type of teeth or eyes too, it's easy, fun and cute!


Here is the how too...

SUPPLIES:

• 1 Page for your template
• 1 Page Designed Scrapbook Paper
• 1 Page Solid Paper for the background (should complement the designed paper)
• 1 Page Solid Paper for the eye color
• White Paper for eyes and teeth
• Black paper for eye pupils
• Scissors
• Glue
• Ruler
• A Pencil

DIRECTIONS:

1) Make your template.. here is how...

• Take your ruler and draw a square 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches. Then draw two more coming off of or sharing the side of the square...hard to explain! Draw this!...

• Now, take the two end squares and draw a line straight through the middle like this...

• Now, cute out the exterior bolded line, that will be your template!

2) Trace your template on the plain piece of complementary solid colored paper. Also, cut our 3 squares about a quarter inch smaller than the square used for the template. In my case, I used a 2.5 inch square so my other squares are 2.25 inches per side. Then cut out the pieces for the eyes. As you can see my pieces for the whites of the eyes are larger than the pieces for the color and the pupil. I just free handed mine buy you can use a nickle and a dime to trace the whites and colors and then the top of a pencil for the pupil if you want.

3) Take two of the smaller squares of designed paper and paste them on either side of your main solid piece. You want to paste them over the position that was the original square from your template and center it. Like this in number 2.

3) Fold the ends up and over the paper like in the photo and glue them together, it will make a little pouch like in number 4.

4) Now, you are going to want to take the third small square you cut out earlier and cut it diagonally down the middle, creating a triangle. Then, paste the triangle on the top of the pouch as seen in image 5 behind the eye ball.

5) Paste your eyeballs together. Whites to the rim of the pouch, color to the white and pupils to the colored in a stacked kind of way... it should look like #5.

6) Finally, cut out the teeth! You can be creative here and chose and style of teeth you like, I free handed some buck teeth. Make sure to leave room and the top of your teeth so that you can glue it to the upper inside flap of the pouch.

YOU'RE DONE!

Here is how mine turned out...

Cute, functional and fun!

Sorry about the confusing directions everyone, hopefully it still worked out for you!

What do you think? Any other ideas for goofy faces?!