DIY Map Crafts: Beautiful Map Artwork and Do-it-Yourself Map Crafts

Here are some of the best map crafts we've seen around the web lately. If you follow us on pinterest, you can find even more map do it yourself crafts and art.

There’s no limit to what you can do with maps. Already graphically engaging and informative, maps lend themselves well to incorporation or inspiration in all kinds of art. Artists render their own maps using an outline as a starting point, or cut, paste and overlay maps for visual interest. We love what these artists have done with maps!

Like this beautiful quilled map by Amber Rousse. You can tell she spent many hours perfecting each quill. The land even has mountains! Now that’s a three dimensional map!

We love this DIY map clock, it’s beautiful and inexpensive! The materials? Clock workings, a round tin plate and a map. You could do this with any map, or get a custom map printed just for you!

Create a wall full of maps! Your own unique map wallpaper of the places you been, and/or where you dream to go one day! We love this example of DIY map wallpaper. You can take any maps, old, new, vintage, antique and artistically design your own world.

Simple and elegant, these vintage maps are craftily displayed in wooden embroidery hoops. Similarly, you could use maps of any location and any style to achieve this look. Reminds me of maps with wooden rails because they have this vintage feel to them!

A beautiful wedding gift. This map could represent the location and date of the wedding, where they met, or the location of the proposal. If you’re not a designer, you can get a custom map made with the location marked and the names printed in any design, of any location!

I hope you felt inspired and not intimidated by all this beautiful DIY map artwork! And, if you don’t have crazy amounts of time or the will to stay up all night and craft with maps, you can always go to mapsales.com and shop for beautiful paper, laminated, framed and magnetic maps of all sizes (even large enough to cover an entire wall!). Or call and have a map custom designed just for you!

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Maps for Walls: How to Decorate with Wall Maps

Maps are everywhere right now, stretching across whole walls. Do you need special wallpaper for maps on your walls? No, you just need to find someplace like mapsales.com that will print your map as large as you need it!

On wall maps you see where you've been and dream about where you're going. Maps connect the past, present and future all at once in our physical space. Display your travels and the scope of your dreams with maps that stretch across the wall.

We've picked a few beautifully decorated spaces and we'll show you how to get the look with maps for your walls!

We love the bright colors in this wall map.

Find a World Wall Map

Decor Tip: Find maps for walls with vibrant colors to pull a room together.

Yellow Vintage Wall Map

Decor Tip: Or choose a map in one tone for a bright conversation-starter.

Island Maps for Walls

Islands are prime backdrops for pirate and treasure-seeking adventures. Maps on walls inspire imaginative play and set the scene for good night story-telling.

Decor Tip: Cut your maps and mix up islands for new variety across walls.

Islands of the Pacific Wall Map

Decor Tip: This Islands of the Pacific Wall Map features dozens of islands, with dozens of possibilities for wallpapering, creating a collage or framing different islands.

Indonesia Wall Map

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World Satellite Explorer Wall Map