Valentine's Day Map Card Tutorial

Valentine's Day is coming up!  This is a cute, unique card for your sweetie!Here's how to make it:Materials and Tools:

• An old map.  Get bonus points for using a map from a special location.  (Ideas:  where you met, where you had your first home, where you went on your honeymoon, a special vacation spot, or any other special location to you and your significant other.)
• Card stock.
• Another piece of scrapbook paper to cover your card.  Or a pages from a dictionary could be cute, too.  You could also not cover your card and leave it as the plain card stock.
• Marker or pen.
• Glue stick.

Step #1 Fold your card stock into thirds.  Don't fold it into exact thirds, the part in the middle will be larger than the other 2.  Also, the 2 sides should overlap.Step #2  Make a mark with a pencil where the left flap overlaps the right flap.Then make marks in the middle of the card where you'll create a tab.Step #3Cut the right flap at the mark, creating a tab in the middle where you made the tab.Step #4  Close the right tab over the left flap and make a mark on either side of the tab.  Then draw a line between the 2 marks where you will be creating a slot for the tab to go in.Step #5Use an Exacto knife (or if, like me, you can't find your blades, just use a box cutter carefully!) and cut a slot in the left flap between your marks along the line you drew.  Make sure the tab fits in and adjust as needed.Step #6Cut a heart for the inside middle of your card out of your map.Note:  it doesn't matter really if the map is a little folded/wrinkled.  It will smooth out when you glue it.Step #7Use a glue stick and glue the heart down.  Smooth it down.Step #8Write something along the lines of "Without you I'd be lost" or something else you come up with that's cute and map/direction related.Step #9 I didn't really like how plain my card stock was, so I decided to cover it with scrapbook paper.  Just cut it in the same shape as your card stock.Step #10 Use your glue stick to adhere it to the outside of the card stock.Step #11Find the slot from the inside of the card and cut it with your Exacto knife.Step #12I just curved the tabs so they looked a little nicer.Step #13 Cut smaller hearts out of map for the front of the card.Step #14Glue them down with your glue stick.Step #15Sign your card and give it to a loved one for Valentine's Day - or really any time!I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!