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I hope you’ve enjoyed the Silhouette fun here over the last week. I am so excited to get to share one of these machines with one of you tomorrow. If you haven’t had a chance to enter the giveaway on facebook, you can like me there and leave a comment there to enter, or if you missed the original giveaway, you can find it and leave a comment right here.
I want to share one final project with you. A favorite project and an appropriate one for the Silhoutte SD; a drink tray I made for my mom with the silhouettes of her grandchildren.
I started with photos of the kiddos.
My favorite way to take silhouette shots is indoors in front of a light window. The backlight makes a great contrast. You can find an excellent set of tips for creating silhouettes from Inchmark, I find it especially true that it is important to make the kids smile and look up a bit, and for long hair to go in ponytails.
I created my silhouettes with Adobe Illustrator, but if you don’t have a drawing program, you can print your photo and snip the silhouettes out of dark paper, then take a picture of the new silhouette on light paper. This should create a crisp shot that the Silhouette SD will turn into an image it can cut with no problem. You just use the “get outline” button, and you can create an outline from any graphic.
I was tickled to pull away the extra vinyl to see perfect miniatures of my children’s profiles.
The vinyl transfer paper made it easy for me to position and reposition the silhouettes until I had them just where I wanted them.
And there you have it. The final product. Ready for serving and for hanging proudly on a wall between service.
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If you’re looking for more pretty things to hang on a kitchen wall, don’t miss the mini-goals chalk boards by Mary Kate McDevitt. She also has a new Lincoln wall quote that I just love.
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Love this. I was under the impression that the sillhouette could only do fonts and designs provided by the designers that can be purchased on the website… Makes it SOOO much more desirable now that I know this :-)
So excited you are doing a silhouette series… I just bought mine a couple of weeks ago and love all of the things you can do with it! Thanks for all the fun ideas!!
Very cool. But you know what I’m struck by?! Does that mean you have 5 kids?… and you are this creative? I wouldn’t be so good even if I didn’t have kids. You’re amazing, Amber!
Hi Jenny!
Thanks for the compliment, but only three of them are mine! The other two (who are very sweet and I would love to claim) are cousins. So far, though, three has kept me nice and busy.
This is such a sweet gift for grandma. Love it! Is the gingham back drop contact paper?
Hi KJ!
Thanks for stopping by. Yes, the gingham back drop is contact paper. Sorry I neglected to mention that!
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