Map Art Lab Blog Hop and How to Make a Personal Planet

I want to share the list of bloggers participating in the Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel blog hop that includes lots of chances to enter to win copies of this fabulous new book, and scroll down to see how to make a personal planet. I started mine with Washi Tape states.

Blog Hop:

 

May 7 Linden McNeilly http://www.facebook.com/lindenmcn

May 8 Kim Rae Nugent  http://kimraenugent.blogspot.com/

May 9 Debbie Gonzalez http://www.debbiegonzales.com/simple-saturday/

May 9 Cynthia Morris  http://www.originalimpulse.com/art/

May 10 Amy Smith  http://www.amysmithdesigns.com/blog

May 12 Sean Corcoran https://www.facebook.com/TheArtHand

May 13 Janet Fox  http://janetsfox.com/

May 14 Tony Kehlhofer  http://www.maps4kids.com/

May 15 Laurie Mika  http://www.mikaarts.com/

May 16 Jill Berry http://jillberrydesign.com/blog/

And I thought I'd share one of the awesome projects from the book. I never thought of making a personal planet, but I think it sounds like a blast!

Click on these pages from Map Art Lab to enlarge and read the full tutorial on how to make a personal planet.
 

 

Here is how I started my personal planet on a lamp globe with my home state and my current state made out of washi tape.

 First, I printed outlines of each of the states on regular paper the size I wanted them to be.

I glued wax paper over the outlines with a glue stick.

Then, I covered the shapes with strips of washi tape.

I held up the paper with the window behind the paper so it was super easy to see the line to cut the states out.

Then I simply pealed the wax paper off the back partially on one side, keeping all the strips of tape attached to both the wax paper and the globe surface. I then kept peeling the wax paper off and pressing the tape down.

More about the new Quarry craft book:

Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel

by Jill K Berry & Linden McNeilly

Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds.

Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Map Lab is the perfect book for map lovers, creative/DIY-inspired, designers. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises.
Everyone loves maps. And what’s not to love? They are beautiful and fascinating, they teach you things, they show you where you are, places you long to go, and places you dare to imagine.

 

Jill K. Berry, author of Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media, teaching scheduled for Art & Soul Portland, Valley Ridge Art Studio, San Diego Book Arts, Tucson Paperworks, Petaluma and Eureka Art Centers, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Virginia Beach and Taos.  Jill’s first book with NorthLight has sold over 10K copies in the first year.