design vacation – project break :: the letter a

In the midst of my craft armoire declutter yesterday, inspiration struck, so I decided to go with the flow and create a little something.

I started with a canvas that I had painted in black & white stripes for a previously failed project.

In my decluttering, I came across an old atlas that I was saving for a moment like this. My son has an collection of letter As, since his name starts with A, so I had the idea of making a letter A with the map of Ohio, since we live in suburban Columbus, Ohio.

Here’s the Ohio page…

The Columbus area is a lighter color, which will make the perfect center of a lower case A.

A lesser person might actually print out a letter A in their font of choice and trace it onto the map.  I decided to create a more imperfect freehand version…

Then I adhered the letter to the painted canvas using rubber cement, which will create a good hold and will allow both the paper and the canvas to remain smooth.

All that was left was to add it to my son’s collection…

Done deal! Perfect addition to his collection, and since the canvas had already been painted, the project only took about 20 minutes.

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