Silhouette Ornaments

The Christmas decor is up!  Yay for twinkly lights!  It's even more exciting watching ladybug and little guy enjoy it.  They love watching everything that lights up and makes noise.  

Last month when I did the silhouette tags and silhouette family I said I would post the silhouette ornaments I made last year.  

 

Here is how I made them:

1.  I painted wood pieces from Hobby lobby.

2.  Attached white snowflake scrapbook paper with Mod Podge.

3.  Made the silhouettes the same way I did HERE and attached with Mod Podge.

4.  Screwed in a eye hook at the top.

5.  I had room on the back to put their little hand prints.

It's those little sentimental ornaments on the tree that I love most.

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Silhouette Tags

I am STILL working on our Thanksgiving countdown.  I had hoped to post that today.  Hopefully tomorrow or Thursday it will be done, and then I can share that with you.

So, for today I am sharing some fun little Christmas tags I started working on.  I knew that If I didn't start now, they would not get done.  

I made the silhouettes of my munchkins using the same method I used here.  

I have an oval cutter that I used on some Christmas paper to make the background.  

I just attached them to the pretty little scallop tag and added a ribbon. Done.

I like them.

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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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