Sunday, October 2, 2011

one cute little cranium ;)

i've seen several projects involving creating silhouettes of your little ones, and have wanted to do it myself for awhile.  i finally landed on this one in which the silhouette is actually the negative space, or in this case, the natural wood grain/color with the outside painted.
i eventually want to cover a wall in henry's room with frames/prints/art/crafty items :) and this will just be one little piece of it.  i decided to go with a small piece of wood instead of a larger one, like i was originally thinking, because it seemed to make the the entire piece more precious :)
i picked up this square wood tile at hobby lobby for fifty cents.
then, i went through all of my images of henry (which are quite a few-ha) and found a good profile of him.  i sized it to fit the wood piece, printed it off, and traced it.
it looks kinda weird here--haha
 then i painted it, with super fun blue craft paint
 tada!  the paint wasn't quite yet dry when i took this photo, but i couldn't wait :)  i love how it turned out--my sweet little boy's sweet little silhouette
bt-dub....super easy and only cost $1.50 to make....  ;)

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