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Posted: Jan 03 2009 at 6:51pm | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris
Have you noticed that silhouettes are all over the place these days? I am seeing them in all sorts of decorating mags and the blogoshpere. I remember that my mom always had ours done at Disneyland. Anyhoo, today I followed a link from Elizabeth's blog and found these silhouettes (you have to scroll down to the middle of the post) and I gave them a try. They are so cool. I took a profile shot of my youngest, printed it, cut it out carefully and then painted it black. Easy Shmeasy! I think it would be best to print them on card stock to make them sturdy. I can't wait to do more! Way more cost effective than a trip to the Magic Kingdom too.

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Posted: Jan 03 2009 at 7:10pm | IP Logged Quote mary theresa
Oh, they are so cool, aren't they? I tried some too! They turned out great.   
I did it a little differently though. I painted the cutout cardstock of the girls profile shots (printed smaller, like a 3X5 size) a rich brown color, glued them to antique cream paper and put them in 5 X 7 frames like these to make them more like cameos. It might have even been better to make them even smaller.
My mom loved them when I gave her sihouettes of the girls for Christmas.
Now I think I'm going to make more for myself!

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Posted: Jan 05 2009 at 2:52pm | IP Logged Quote nissag
I did a silhouette tutorial a little over a year ago - it' still one of the most popular posts on my website.

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