make your own silhouette picture.

i, like i'm sure most of you, have been drooling over all the custom silhouette pictures of your kids.

i wanted to ask for those for christmas, but i wanted shopping money too.

well, i am now the proud owner of some cute new clothes so my selfishness won.

but....

now i also have some silhouette pictures thanks to my crafty (a.k.a cheap) bum.

here's the supplies you'll need:

photo frame ($10.00 on sale at joanns)

spray adhesive

cardstock

black paint/paint brush

scissors

picture of your kid (the hardest part)

step 1:

take your kids picture.

print it (my frame is an 8 x 10 size, so i printed the picture in a 5 x 7 size)

i printed it on cardstock as well, so the paper would be thicker.

step 2:

cut your picture out...being very careful around the sweet little face parts.

step 3:

paint the cut out picture black.

let dry.

step 4:

i then used my spray adhesive to adhere it to the white background (sidenote--my white background is just the piece of paper that comes with the frame...i just turned it over)

and voila:

i will post a picture later of all 4 of them, hung on the wall (after mr. anderson does a little handy work).

this craft literally took me 30 minutes to do.

30 minutes people!

now i have sweet memories of my little people...and new clothes.

everybody is happy.