"MAG-NUTS"!

Remember when I got to go to the Michael's stores' big-spender Mod Podge event? 

I got some cool stuff to play with, including some "Podgeable Shapes," which are plastic medallions you can turn into just about anything.

I knew right away what I wanted to do with them, but I didn't want to pay full price for an atlas (sheesh, have you priced an atlas lately?  I was not paying that just to cut it to shreds, and I have a LOT of projects that need an atlas that I can cut to shreds.)

That last paragraph took me about a dozen takes.  I apparently can not type the word "atlas" without automatically hitting shift and typing, "Atlanta." Every time.  Even just there.  I have to stop (which is crazy, because I type about 100 words per minute, and I am not joking), focus on the keyboard, and specifically type a-t-l-a-s.

When we were in Maine last week we found -- naturally -- a treasure hunt store, and had to check it out.  And I found not just one, but TWO atlases!

So, what do you think?!

These are the Podgeable shapes mod-podged with atlas cut-outs of places that are special to us.

Here's what I did/you can do:

• First, wait about a month until you find an atlas at Goodwill.  ;)
• Trace each shape around the part of the map you want to highlight.  
• Then, cut out the map part -- try to go just a hair smaller than what you traced, if you can.
• Apply some ModPodge to the map (I used high-gloss, but it really doesn't matter), and stick the map to the medallion.  
• Smooth the map to the medallion to eliminate any bubbles or wrinkles, and let them dry overnight (map side up).  
• If you didn't trim the shapes quite as nicely as you meant to, do what I did:  the next day, I went around the outside of each shape with an x-acto knife just to make sure there wasn't any overhang (you can see in the top left one that I took this photo before I did that).  

That's it!   Easy peasy!

We turned them into, as CAM calls them, mag-nuts.  I like them because they are so personal to us.  I'm sure the collection will continue to grow, too!

I especially like this project because they don't look like "oh, a kitschy Mod-Podge project," which so many things end up turning into.

--Jen

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