Comments on: diy project: custom paper silhouettes

By: Laura @ The Soulful House

Laura @ The Soulful House — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:55:42 +0000

These turned out great! I love your colored backgruond paper. I simplified mine a little bit to eliminate the tracing paper step, then made the silhouette in white for a twist on the traditional. See the quick and easy tutorial at:

http://thesoulfulhouse.com/2011/12/how-to-make-silhouettes/

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:34:19 +0000

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I used it to make Mother’s Day gifts and linked to you!
http://moliorfamiliae.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-take-on-photo-gifts.html

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:59:31 +0000

I saw the link for this site at Rock’s in my Dryer… and so now this is my project for the weekend!
Thanks so much for all the detailed instructions!

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:03:18 +0000

I did these for mothers day last year for grandma’s. The only differance is that I just cut out the photo and then i let my son paint black over top of it… he felt special getting to help make a big portion of it. He was also was just learning to write his name, so I let him write it below the silh on the white to make a really cool affect.

By: Destinee

Destinee — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:46:56 +0000

so cute! im going to make this for my mother for xmas!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:51:33 +0000

I just found this article in Real Simple, May 2009. I have always loved silhouettes since my first one was made when I was in Kindergarten. I still have it 49 years later. I would like to share two ideas. I am a 30 year first grade teacher. My favorite mother’s day gift is a silhoutte project I help my first graders make. I take each of the kids pictures with an instant polaroid camera. The child’s face is on one side of the picture and the back of the instant picture is naturally black. I use a small pair of cuticle scissors to cut around the face. When you’re done cutting, turn the picture over and miraculously you have an instant silhouette to use as you like. The second idea I’ve used for silhouettes is when celebrating the President’s during the month of February, you always see Washington and Lincoln in black silhouette. My whole school made life size head silhouettes of every student in our school and hung them over their locker. It looked so cool. We had fun guessing who was who and had them hanging during conferences when parents were there. It was one awesome sight!