Map Week: Maps Instead of Photos - Write. Click. Scrapbook.

Welcome to Day 2 of Map Week! Today we have a fun twist: maps instead of photos. Grab a map-themed product (or a bunch of them!) and use it to tell a story. This is a fun twist on the photo-less layout and is a great for when you don't have photos to go with your story. You can also go photo-less even if you have photos - sometimes the map tells the story more clearly.

Our very own Christa is very skilled at the "maps instead of photos" genre of layout. Her "On the Road Again" layout uses a map-print patterned paper to document all of the moves she (and her family) have made over the years.

Another layout by Christa, "Home Sweet Homes," documents the places she's lived in another way. Christa cut the states from a map-print patterned paper apart and adhered them to her background with dimensional adhesive:

On this layout about her move this past summer, Christa used map die cuts to tell her story. She cut the maps from patterned paper and backed each with a contrasting patterned paper:

I created this layout to talk about how I love city life, using a street-view map-print patterned paper instead of photos:

Maps are a great excuse to document lots of things even if you don't have photos. Take a cue from Christa and from me, grab map-themed products, don't worry about whether or not you have photos to go with your story (unless you really want to) and create layouts about any or all of the following:

1. A move
2. All the moves you've ever made
3. Where you live
4. Everywhere you've ever lived
5. A trip you took
6. All the trips you took in a year
7. Every trip you've ever taken
8. A place you'd like to go
9. All the places you'd like to go
10. A place your ancestors are from
11. All the places your ancestors are from
12. The place you'd live if you could live anywhere
13. Do you prefer cities? Suburbs? Small towns? The country?
14. Where you went to high school
15. Where you went to college
16. Where you studied abroad
17. Where you grew up
18. Where you and your spouse are from
19. Where everyone in your family was born
20. Where everyone in your extended family lives
21. What your daily travels involve
22. Your feelings about a current event
23. Your feelings about a series of current events
24. A deployment
25. Where your friends live

Not enough ideas for you? Share more in the comments here!

Source: http://www.writeclickscrapbook.com/write_click_scrapbook/2012/11/map-week-maps-instead-of-photos.html

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