Our Silhouette Family

I have seen soooo many beautiful silhouette projects in blogland lately.  Last year I made silhouette ornaments of my munchkins, and when we get out our Christmas boxes I'll do a post on those too.  Recently I've been inspired by all the gorgeous ones I've seen over on This Blessed Nest.  

Last night I made my own Silhouette Family arrangement.  

  

(sorry for the funny angled pictures, but I was TRYING to avoid glare on the glass. Oh well.)

I used the same process that I used to make my ornaments last Christmas.  

I know there are easier ways out there, but I don't have any of that fancy photo editing software.  

1.  I took profile pictures of everyone.  This was not an easy task with my 1 1/2 year old.  

Nevertheless, we got through it!  Hubs helped take mine.

2.  I took some super small, fine point scissors to cut out the profiles.

3.  I used a black marker to completely cover the head.

4.  Then I used some Mod Podge to attach the heads to the page.  I used old dictionary pages as my background.  I picked the page that each person's name was on in the dictionary.  

It's a small detail, but I just wanted to do it that way.

5.  Then I  put each picture in the frame (that I got for 50% off at Michaels! Yay for coupons!) 

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