My World in Color

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Summit Ridge Etsy Shop makes a beautiful water color representation of city or neighborhood maps from around the world. I love how abstract they look until you ealize it's actually a map. I think having three or four of these in a gourping is a great way to personalize artwork in your home. i absolutely love this one of Paris.
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Paris, France

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 Denver, Colorado
 
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Manhattan, NY
 
 
boston
Boston, MA
 
 
If  you are feeling crafty and or you are techno savvy, here's a great way to DIY!
It would be nice to put your own spin on it and try to copy the images below by hand.
Stamen.com is a website that you can do it yourself- and the best part- it's free! Just enter a city and it comes out like below. If you like the color in the original map- great! you're done, if not, you can play with it to make it look how you way in any image manipulation software.
I saved the image and took it into photoshop, converted to black and white, then added a blue color overlay, or I left it alone.
 
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Moopark, CA
(original version)
 
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Moorpark, CA
(photoshoped version)
 
I took a couple of places near and dear to my heart and made them look how I wanted.
 
I'm thinking in my guest room I might have to add some new "art." 
 
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 Central Park
I fell in love with New york here.
 
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Gottigen, Germany
Girls trip to Germany
 
 
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San Diego, CA
Too many memories to name.

 
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Saint Marteen
Honeymoon spot
 
 Have fun traveling through the World in watercolor!
Happy Tuesday!
 
xo
b
 
 
 
 

1 comment

  1. Love this idea... I have been wanting to do this for a while, I had the idea to frame maps of all the places Matt & I have traveled... the list is short for now, but hope to add more. Thanks for the do it yourself link, so cool!

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