I have always loved looking at map crafts! I love the colors and lines of maps. They seem to illustrate some cool adventure out there! I used to love looking at the maps that came with the National Geographic in the doctors office when I was a kid. So even though it has been a long, long time since I used one (thank you GPS) I still love to collect them when I find one. These are some really creative ways that some brilliant people used to craft with their maps! They have inspired me to try out a few more map crafts!
I love this ideas from Cut, Craft, Create! She cuts a photo in the shape of the state they visited! Fun!
This map craft turned out super stylish!
This is a great way to display a pretty map you already have! Love the rustic frame.
Map lined envelopes are a great way to personalize stationary.
I love these cool tags made from old maps!
Hazel and Ruby share this DIY world map with lights! I love the quote above it too!
The paint and the map lining really make this map craft pop! From My Creative Days
Pivotal Expressions made a really fun map wreath!
Merryweather’s Cottage used old Disneyland maps for these coasters! What a fun memory!
I like the idea to use maps as a drawer liner!
Lovely Greens made this DIY map craft with wood and a wood burner!
This map craft uses letters, maps, and mod podge!
I love these little gift bags made from maps!
Little Birdie Secrets made this awesome canvas map craft!
Use maps to wrap presents!
and another great map wrap!
This is a cool map craft! She put it in her son’s pirate themed room!
Skimbaco Lifestyle updated this Ikea clock with some maps!
- Pine Cone Craft Ideas - December 10, 2016
- DIY Snow Globe Crafts - December 3, 2016
- Crochet Ornament Round Up - November 19, 2016
- DIY Advent Calendar Awesomeness - November 12, 2016
- Awesome Leather Crafts to Try - November 5, 2016
- Mason Jar Luminary Ideas - September 3, 2016
- DIY Door Mat Roundup - August 27, 2016
- DIY Cupcake Topper - August 20, 2016
- DIY Baby Suits - August 13, 2016
- Fun with Large (Inexpensive) Engineering Print - August 6, 2016
I used maps behind a collection of my Dad’s cherished model car collection when it was willed to my son on my Dad’s passing. It really ties together the idea of driving and maps!
Great idea! My father had a car collection as well. Great memory.
These are super cute! I’m not really a “map” kind of person in my style normally, but I do like a few of these ideas! Especially the gift bags! Where would you recommend going to get maps to recycle for a reasonable price?
Sadie recently posted…30 (Mostly) Free Spring Date Ideas
I definitely wouldn’t have ever thought to do at least 90% of these things! Thanks for such a fun roundup!
Chelsea @ Life With My Littles recently posted…What It Feels Like When You Can’t Get Pregnant
After seeing map ideas you featured now need to go back over them all to see which ones can’t do without. So many good ideas to try, something to keep me even busier. Love them all actually but need to narrow down to about three for now. Have some embroidery projects want to do in addition.
Sure glad you shared all these map ideas, thanks so much.
Hope can find my maps. Use pages out of hubs trucker atlases, copy pages to use for maps. Buying maps is expensive now-days. Whatever happened to gas stations giving maps?
This is 3rd. project of yours have gotten into, just keep clicking one after another, love your very interesting blog.
Have wonderful weekend.
Thanks for some great ideas! I have a drawer full of old maps (60’s and 70’s) and a few as old as 40’s. I think the oldest would be great either on a dresser or behind shelving like you did here. That way I’d use large pieces of the maps. I love the advertising on these old ones too. These were all my own or my fathers but I have seen them for sale at yard sales for pennies too.
I used maps to mod podge gift boxes to use for decorative storage of pictures or other items,, mod podeged a wooded crate and then sanded the edges, and mod podged a picture frame. It also looks fabulous on furniture.