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How do you capture cruise memories? Souvenirs picked up in port? Photo albums? Or maybe even a few extra inches around your middle? It happens to us all! How about a piece of personalised wall art that picks out some of your fondest holiday moments? We were contacted by My Icon Story who wanted to share this stylish concept with us.
How does My Icon Story work?
My Icon Story was set up by former advertising bod Laura Robinson to picture special events in people’s lives using bespoke sets of icons. She doesn’t just capture holidays but also personal achievements, friendships, careers and gap years. The possibilities are endless! Laura has a whole gallery of icons to choose from and if you don’t find exactly what you’re looking for she’ll design it for free.
It really is the opportunity to design something that is as original and unique as your life experiences.
Design steps
You can design your wall art using the My Icon Story website or get in touch with Laura who will take the brief straight from you.
Step one: select how many icons you’d like in your design and whether it’s going to be landscape or portrait. You can have up to 12 icons on your design – just about right for all the ports of call in a two week cruise!!
Step two: select a background colour. I love the royal blue but there’s also black, white, red, green, pink and a darker blue.
Step three: search for and add your icons using an interactive map.
Step four: once you have picked all your icons you drag them onto your background in the order that you like. There’s a toggle button that you can use to add or take away the icon description. If you like you can also choose different colours for the icons. I think white on blue looks classy so stuck with that.
Step five: the finishing touches are choosing whether or not you’d like the print mounted and what colour frame you’d like. You can just order the print on its own if you don’t need a frame.
And that’s it: a super simple design process that takes minutes and a chic holiday memory to keep forever!
My Icon Story – our first family cruise
When Laura first asked if we’d like to give her service a go I was suddenly overwhelmed with all the fabulous memories I might be able to capture. After a lot of thinking I decided that it would be wonderful to capture a very special memory: our first family cruise. The first icon represents Carnival Vista and the others are our ports of call. Once I’d made my decision and placed the order it look less than a week to arrive. And that was after a Bank Holiday weekend!
My final verdict? I love our My Icon Story personalised print. It’s a fabulous idea and our wall art will take pride of place in our home for years to come… Where as, I have no idea where some of the little trinkets we bought in Florence, Pisa or Sicily have ended up! I’m sure I’ll find them one day under the kids’ beds!
My framed wall art would have cost £75 or £39 without the frame.
Win your own My Icon Story personalised wall art – CLOSED
Laura at My Icon Story has very kindly offered to design a personalised print for one of our Cruising with Kids readers. Hurrah! The giveaway prize is one unframed print with up to a maximum of 12 icons and the winner will be put in touch with Laura to place their order. The closing date for this giveaway is midnight (23.59pm) on Wednesday 11 July, 2018. Please read the terms and conditions below, and follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter widget to enter. Good luck!
Terms & conditions
- UK entrants aged 18 or over only.
- There is no cash alternative.
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- The closing date for this competition is midnight (23.59pm) on Wednesday 11 July, 2018.
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Disclosure: we are running this competition in partnership with My Icon Story and received our personalised wall art in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
My wedding day.
really would love to capture my eldest’s 21st!
My life really, it can be documented in icons !
Would love to capture our wedding cruise around The Baltics. Married on board the ship, just off the coast of Denmark.
wedding day maybe
My neices wedding day
I’d use it to show all the countries I’ve travelled to!
a christmas family picture x
Such a wonderful idea to keep memories of places I have visited around the world.
My upcoming trip to Paris for my 21st birthday!
I’d love one to capture all the places we plan to visit for our honeymoon 🙂
I would love to capture my daughters birthday!
family memories of our holidays over the years
my daughter first picture x
Would have to be my mums birthdays
my wedding day in las vegas
Places we have visited on our family holidays – Cyprus, Disneyland Paris, Mauritius, Crete and Rhodes
My wedding in Dominican Republic
What event, relationship or holiday would you capture with My Icon Story? We’d love to know! Leave a comment on the blog post
our first holiday abroad, three generations in Spain
The places we have visited over the years
My wedding anniversary
Our first family holiday 🙂
id use it to show me and my husband meeting, getting married and the arrival of our 2 monkeys!!
Family holiday to The Great Barrier Reef
Me and my Partner, we have been to Paris, he’s from Portsmouth, and I’m from Notts
We were blessed with our daughter after multiple miscarriages and years of fertility treatments, she is such a little globetrotting madam like her daddy so icons of her favourite places she’s visited would be so special.
My relationship with my partner I would love to have that in pictures x
So many cruises and fabulous holidays to immortalise… Love the look of yours!
would love to capture visting my sister in gorleston great yarmouth
Would treat myself to a reminder of all the places I visited before I became a mum. Memories I can share with them.
My Honeymoon!
This is stunning is either do our first family cruise or all the capitals our little one has visited
A scene from my young backpacking days would be wonderful.
My engagement in Paris
My Wedding
I would love to capture all the holidays we have been on as a family over the years
I’ve recently got married after 14 years so definitely the wedding
Places I would like to visit in the future.
On my wedding day please
The story of when our family began ?
The places i have visited with my wife on holidays
The places we’ve lived abroad when we were expats
the story of how we became a family
Two of Scotland’s cities.
My first holiday in cornwall
I think I would make one of places we have been as a family
I’d love to capture my graduation day! Which is upcoming this month
Probably the births of all my children.
would have to be our family holiday to Disney Paris
next year my 50th birthday holiday to mauritius
our family travels
Places which I visited.
I would love to capture my relationship with my husband, Our first holiday was to Paris, he proposed on the great wall of china, we got married in a french chateau in Poitiers we then put our roots down in Wales and we honeymooned in Santorini (and so many other amazing locations that we would love to document)
Our engagement and wedding abroad
Camping breaks with my son and his family in their pirate tent
It has to be our first family holiday to America
my travels xx
I would love to capture my wedding day.
Mine and my boyfriends first holiday together!
I’d love to be able to have something to celebrate my daughter’s birthday – such a special and exciting day.
My son just graduated from nursery and goes to school this time. I’d love for him to see his journey so far, and what is to come.
our trip to lapland
a family holiday!
The places myself and my husband have visited over the years
I worked overseas for years, I’d love to add all those countries to it
I’d love to capture the relationship with my husband, particularly the places we’ve visited or lived in. It’s quite a range.
I’d like to capture the new start for my daughter and I and the amazing adventures we will have together – almost a road map of places we can go to together in the future!
The memories we make over the summer.
I’d capture my Caribbean cruise
I’d capture our engagement and having our son as the top two ?
I would say new friends.
With My Icon Story, I would capture the Christmas parties.
We road tripped around the uk, just for a a little over a week but had a different night in each place working our way home, it had so many memories for us, and we still talk about the fun we had!
Our first ever family holiday abroad which was to Venice in 2015. We remember it like it was yesterday and we would love a long lasting memory for our son!
My 50th birthday party
I’d love our honeymoon put into one of these x
My daughters 1St Holy Communion
Me and my Mr. We are in a distance relationship it would be great to have our Icon Story
My trip to Madeira which was my first holiday abroad
Our first camping holiday! The kids have been desperate to go camping for so long we have finally plucked up the courage to got his summer and spend some good quality family time together!
I would love to capture our travels as a family
My journey through chemotherapy treatment with the help of my very loving family
Completing the london marathon
We love wondering around in the Uk, so we would probably choose something highlighting these trips
I’d capture my daughters birthday party xxx