I have been dying to do a silhouette project for a long time. I kept putting it off because I thought it was going to be complicated or wouldn’t turn out quite right but I was wrong about both! This project was SO simple and turned out great!! The silhouettes look just like the kids and I love the fact that you can even tell Marco is laughing! Let me just say, when you complete this project don’t admire your work with wet paint on your hands! Yes, this is round 2! I got black paint all over the front of BOTH of them! The lighting in my house is horrible so this photo doesn’t really do them justice, they are soooo adorable!
The first step is to take a profile picture of your subject. Preferably near a large window or slider and don’t use your flash so you get a nice silhouette. Then I used the magic wand tool in my photo editing software to outline just their heads, it doesn’t have to be perfect, and I printed it on plain paper. If you don’t have software that can do this you can just cut out around their head after printing. Next I photocopied and sized it onto a plain sheet of paper until it was the size I wanted.
Next you are going to take your purchased wooden plaques and paint the edges and just around the sides on the top. I purchased these at Michaels. The “unwrapped” plaques are very inexpensive starting at .59 cents. Measure the top of the plaque and cut your decorative paper to the appropriate size. Once the paint is dry I used Mod Podge for paper to glue it to the front.
While the paint is drying you can cut out your silhouettes. I used double sided tape to adhere the photocopy onto a piece of black cardstock to help keep it in place while I cut. Place the tape around the edges not under the silhouette. Once the paint is dry you can glue the decorative paper on and give it some time to dry before gluing the silhouette on. Let the silhouette dry for an hour or so and give it one more coat of Mod Podge on top and you are done! I stapled some ribbon to the back and glued a piece of felt to cover it and finish it off .
I made a mini ornament silhouette for Kate’s tree…as if it doesn’t already have enough ornaments
xoxo, Sonja
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