They are in my opinion the cutest kid art ever. I love my sons face. His chin and cheeks, little nose? They are just the cutest shape. Maybe its a mom thing? Maybe I'm just weird.
Anyways, I look for ideas for christmas presents on pinterest, literally all year round. Yes I do try to start christmas presents early, but I also sometimes double up my christmas board as a birthday present board. Kind of. I usually try the christmas presents as birthday presents that way I know what is easiest to whip out in case I run out of time towards the end of the holidays (my husband has waaay to big of a family).
So my moms 50th birthday was today and one of the presents I made for her was a silouhette plaque of her lovely little first and only grandson.
I found the tutorial at ediTORIal. Its Tori Spellings blog, which I didn't realize until like the 18th time I revisited the post. But once I realized it, it made the name so clever.
So now! The How-To
Start out by taking a profile picture. I turned on the TV for this, totally engaged and totally still enough for me to take a photo from multiple angles to get the right silhouette.
On the blog I followed she printed out the picture on her printer and painted it to make the black outline. I don't have the luck of having a printer (sad face) so I printed it out as an 8x10 at walgreens.
Then I cut just the silhouette shape I wanted out of the picture.
Instead of painting the picture cut out black, I traced it on to black cardstock and saved the picture as a future template (Thinking ahead for christmas :)! )
I got a wooden plaque at Micheals
I let trae pick out what color to paint it
Although I prefer hobby lobby, It was sunday :(
first world problems.
so then I used modpodge to put the silhouette on the board
and modpodge over the entire thing, cutout and the rest of the board, just for a nice seal.
REMEMBER!!!!!!!:
When you modpodge underneath the paper and stick it to the board
use a library card, or something to get out the air bubbles.
I don't know how common knowledge that is, but I forget to in every single project I do :(
maybe I use too much or something, but it breaks my heart.
So here is the final product. super cute.
I know she'll love it, but the air bubbles.. they're driving me crazy.
UPDATE: The Airbubbles go away! I've done this project 5 times now, every time even when I use a card the air bubbles pop up, but after it dries they calm back down and look perfect :)
And now I know what to do different to whip out a few for grandparents this holiday season :)
Happy birthday Nana!
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