How to Make a DIY Heart Map Art and Free Printable

This DIY Heart Map Art showcases areas that represent special cities in your life. For example, my husband, myself, and my son were born in the same city. Then, we all lived in the same city where my husband and I grew up. Because of this, I only needed to highlight a small section of a state map. We have since moved from this city, but to quote Oliver Wendell Holmes,

 "Where we love is home...home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." 

Create your own, unique map art

I purchased a new picture frame for this project. The frame had a bar code insert. I used this insert as reference to cut the area of map to fit in the frame. I placed the insert over the area where I wanted to highlight in the frame. Using an Exacto knife, I cut around the edges of the insert.

Next, to make the heart, I first needed to create a template. I needed a heart shape to fit in a 5x7 picture frame. I created this silhouette in Picmonkey and printed the shape on to a piece of computer paper. You are welcome to download a free heart printable below.

With the Exacto knife, I cut out the heart shape. Then, I placed the heart over the cities that I wanted to showcase. With a pencil, I marked where the edge of the heart template needed to be cut.

With my template created, I chose an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of scrapbook paper. I made sure I had two scrapbook papers in the same color, just in case I made a mistake while making the cutout heart.

Using the Exacto knife, I carefully cut around the template for the heart frame. I put the scrapbook heart in the frame. I needed to trim off a bit of the bottom of the heart for it to fit properly. After making sure everything fit together nicely, I put the heart map art together. 

Now I am able to showcase the cities that have fond memories for my family and I.

>>>>>Download the heart silhouette printable. 


How many cities would you need to place on your diy heart map art?

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