If you are regular readers of Mudpie Fridays you will know that when I returned to work from maternity leave I made a resolution to try and get away once a month with Hubby and the boys for some family time. So far we have visited Cambridge, Warwick, London, St Ives and Eurocamp in France. In June I was a little sneaky and ended up having a couple of days away on a Retreat and in July we have our first camping festival planned. These times are very precious to me.
Many of them are recored here on this blog in the form of an electronic journal, some of the photos may make it into a frame but I do very little else with them. Zippi offer a way of making these photos (and art) into gifts and keepsakes. Yet it was their selection of map canvases that caught my eye.
Monkey is very visual and like many young children can struggle with understanding distance and how far apart places are. I thought that by having a UK map canvas it would help him identify where we lived and where we were going or visiting. As Zipp’s UK map canvas came with coloured pins it would also become a lovely keepsake we can build over years. Plus the educational bonus of understanding the different counties when he’s older.
I opted for the middle size canvas of 36 x 24 inches or 60cm x 91cm, its the perfect size for our hallway. We have an old fashioned picture shelf that runs up the side of the stairs and the canvas sits perfectly there. Monkey was very excited when I first took it out of the box and wanted to get ‘stuck in’ straight away.
Things we love:
- You have three colour options, black & white, sepia and colour. We opted for the coloured version.
- The printing is good quality and the colours have come out lovely and bright. They have a twelve colour printing process which means you don’t have any colours the same next to each other.
- The names of the counties, cities and towns are also clearly printed with no ghosting
- The pins are good quality, the flags being pretty thick and withstood Monkey putting the pins in. They went in really easily but are stiff enough not to fall back out.
- It came really well packaged with several layers of bubble wrap and the box had fragile printed all over it.
- The website is really easy to use and delivery is super quick. Plus they have a free delivery option and on some items next day delivery if you are in a rush.
- There is also a European and World version of the maps available in the same three colour ways
The UK map canvas starts at £48.99 for the 16 x 24 size up to £94.99 for the 30 x 40. You can select add ons during the process, a 100 more pins cost £1.99, a wall hanging pack costs £2.99 and framing tape to finish £1.99. I am really impressed with Zippi as a company and will definitely be ordering more from them going forward, at the moment I am looking as a laptop skin of the boys in the lavender. The prices are so reasonable and they have such a wide range of gift ideas.
The lovely people at Zippi are giving one of my lucky readers the opportunity to win a £70 voucher so you can buy your own map. To be in with a chance of winning please enter via the Gleam application and note the T&C below.
£70 voucher for Zippi – WHERE ART AND PHOTOS MAKE GREAT GIFTS 0
- Competition is open to residents of UK aged 18 or over
- There is no cash alternative offered
- The winner will be drawn at random and receive a voucher code for £70 to use on the Zippi website
- The competition will close on 2nd August 2017
- The Winner will be asked to provide an email address and full postal address
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We were given a Zippi United Kingdom Map for the purpose of this review all words and opinions are my own.
70 Responses
Not heard of this site before
Looks fab
Looks great! were planning more days out and visits so this would be fab!
Thanks for the review! I love your map – such a great idea!
The map looks brilliant
fabtastic giveaway
What a great idea, thanks for showcasing it.
I love your canvas, it looks lovely. Thanks for the giveaway.
I also love maps especially closing my eyes and puttong my finger on a map to plan my next trip it’s more exciting that way
The map looks great.
This would be amazing for logging our geocaching!
I would love the worldwide map
I’ve never heard of this site but I must the map looks very beautiful my kids love family adventures
your map is such a great idea!!
never tried them, however seeing the map I may give them a go
Would really love to go there. Think a treat for hubby and I is due
I meant and take the Grandson too. Loving the map also/ Our Grandson world map has been damaged by his little bro so time for a new one
Sounds like a great idea – Would love this for my little girl
Wow, fab prize, this is amazing!
Loving the map, fantastic idea!
This is awesome! I’d love to have a map and be able to pinpoint my travels
FAB IDEA SO FINGERS CROSSED !!!
There’s some lovely things on this website and I’ve never heard of them before so going to be busy browsing for a while 🙂
Cool map
Unusual prize, would be great to win
awesome!!
Great map and idea
lovely giveaway thank-you
Lovely prize
The lavender fields are amazing, I bet the smell was fabulous too.
great giveaway
I rembember having a huge map on the back of my bedroom door…which I reckon I learnt most about the different areas of the world from staring at them in from my bed in those very moody early teenage years? 😉
Love the map canvases
Looks like a lovely range of items x x
Great giveaway
I would use this to get a collection of little canvases for the nursery wall.
It’s a brilliant idea, fun and educational.
The UK map on the canvas looks really cool actually
Awesome Giveaway 🙂
This looks wonderful. My son would enjoy seeing all the different places
Lovemy review and giveaway – I’ll keep my fingers crossed
These look great, such a good idea, I’d love to win for my grandson so he can start recording all the places he goes.
A great idea and helps children with geography
That map is brilliant 🙂 I love the way they’ve done it, makes it more obvious to find borders
Love this map love one myself
fantastic
id love this 🙂
Wow i’ve never heard of this before but it looks fun
Thanks for the giveaway
Love all of the fun items on the website. Thanks for the chance x
great idea
How fab. I have a thing about maps so find them beautiful. The little people like them, too.
This is a wonderful idea
Great idea, gives us lots of ideas
lovely giveaway
This looks great for the kids so they can pinpoint everywhere they have been or are going to visit 🙂
I love maps 🙂
The map looks like a fun way of leaning, and that includes myself
Lovely giveaway. Thanks so much for the chance x
Lovely way for children to learn x
Nice
Great prize.
Excellent prize but the tweet option doesn’t appear to be working @wildabouttheboy
Great idea, brilliant review.
These are fantastic
I think the map looks great but dad is a retired lorry driver and we’d need more pins.
This looks lovely!
Looks great
I might have to get one of those maps!
Fabulous giveaway – love to win this!
How cool!! I really want one now