Creating A Silhouette

Jun 27, 2011

I had no idea how many peo­ple would be ask­ing me how I made this sil­hou­ette that I decided today was the per­fect day to show you. This tech­nique is really easy to do and doesn’t take too much time. First you want to print a photo to the desired size you need. For the project above (part of my Cocoa Daisy Sneak Peek) I printed my photo to a 5″ x 7″. This left me with a sil­hou­ette the size of approx­i­mately 5″ x 5.25″.

Note: I printed the photo in black and white so not to waste my color ink.

Once you have the photo printed, using scis­sors and a craft knife cut and remove the pho­tos back­ground. All you want are the images of the peo­ple. Next, using a pen­cil trace around the photo onto a dark col­ored cardstock.

Using a craft knife cut around the traced image on the card­stock. Now, Place the photo image on top of the cut out sil­hou­ette. Using the craft knife make cuts through the photo image and the card­stock to accent the clothes, chin, arms, hands and hair.

Note: You will need to push a bit harder than nor­mal when using the craft knife as you need to go through both the photo and the cardstock.

Here you can see how I accented the the areas on my sil­hou­ette. I love how it turned out and plan on doing this with other pho­tos in the near future.

Have fun!