My sister, Molly, and I collaborated on Mom's birthday present this year. I got the idea for it while perusing the awesome items at Pitter Patter Art. Molly has a cricut, so she did all the lettering and figured out how to make it fit. I took a canvas, glued a linen-looking fabric on it, layered paper on top of that and then the shape of Africa. I got the Africa by printing out a template off the Internet and then used my printer to blow it up big and then taped the pages together and cut it out. Then I mod podged scrapbook paper on top of that and followed the shape to cut it again. Lastly, I mod podged all of Molly's letters on top. Tedious! In case you don't know why this art is meaningful to my Mom: my parents have (so far) adopted 8 children from Ethiopia. So, yeah, she liked it. :)
