>This is just neat

09 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment

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>A small collection

24 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment

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This is a few of the silhouettes that are in my home. Some I have cut some other people have cut and some are ones I have cut to copy old ones that are in other family members homes. They span from about 1950 to now. They are all family members except the one in the middle that has the silhouettes of 4 people walking with a poem. I have more I need to cut that are from photos of silhouettes in family member homes. I just haven’t had the chance to sit down and do that yet. Once that is done there will be about 10 more on this wall. Four of these are from Disneyland over the years.

silhouettes

On a side note the ceramic dragon you see on the bottom left my 12 year old daughter made.

>Foil Silhouette

22 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment

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foil silhouette

This is for my sister in law for her birthday. Yes there have been a lot of birthdays in our family in the recent past and I am trying to get caught up on them all. Top photo flash off bottom photo flash on.

with flash on foil silhouette

>Twin Dragons

22 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment

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twin dragons

This is for my brother-in law for his birthday. Sort of a yin and yang dragon theme. He loves oriental stuf and collects dragons. This design was originally meant to be a tatoo but I think it looks much better this way. The design is not my own but the scale and the cutting and material sued are my own.

>Yoda silhouette

20 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment

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all 3 yodas

These are for three different nephews. We are going to my Mil’s house tomorrow to celebrate the last three months of birthdays so I decided I would make each nephew a Yoda silhouette. I don’t know if they will like this type of thing but you know they don’t really get a choice on what gifts they get now do they. Ihave got to find my silhouette paper using origami paper is driving me crazy.

yoda 3
yoda 2yoda1

>David H. and Wendy R.

16 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment

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Davy and his wife Wendy
I showed the Wendy tapes recently. I also thought I would share this a picture I cut of Davy and his wife Wendy this morning. Yes he married a Wendy just not this Wendy. She looks charming and I love this picture that was on face book of the two of them so I decided I would cut a picture out of them. The original photo was of them taking a picture of themselves looking in a mirror so there are things I have edited out and changed. I made a little mistake on the mouth area but if he wants it I will gladly send it to him. I wish them a long life together. It isn’t mounted to the red just sitting on it for contrast for the photo.

>Scherenschnitte

15 Mar 2010 Leave a Comment

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Scherenschnitt Alice in wonderland

There is this blog I found the other day about Scherenschnitte. The lady lives in Salt Lake City which is less than an hour away from me. The basic techniques I already know how to do but it would be fun to take a class from her to see how she does it herself. The image in this post is one, Alice playing crochet with a flamingo and a hedge hog, I cut but I used a free pattern she had on her blog. So if you want to make one follow the this link to the specific page it is on. She tries to post a new pattern every Tuesday for people to try. Which is pretty cool and a major thing to do as she would have to design and cut and make a pattern for you to cut pretty generous of her. I am more use to using scissors to do this type of thing the artist craft knife is not as comfortable to me as you can tell my lines are not as smooth as they should be. I also need to improve where the holes are as that was a little ruff and it shows. But that would improve with time I think I had a death grip on the blade. I need to relax a little and it would be nicer. The red and blue are not glued together I just set it there for the eye popping effect for the photo. Because I am new at this that took me about 30 mins. to cut this I am sure it would be faster with practice as I wasn’t always sure where to cut next.

>Silhouettes

22 Oct 2009 2 Comments

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While in California I took some photos of silhouettes that my grandmother had.  I have a collection of family silhouettes that hang in my dinning room.  I wanted to add to these images.  So I took photos of some my grandmother had that I did not.  Some are in real bad shape so I sat down at the computer for a while to fix the images up so you could see what they should look more like  I am not done with this as of yet as you can tell these are splotchy hard to take photos through glass.   when I find my Silhouette paper and scissors I will cut new ones of these and add them to my wall.  Some I have not had the time to fix yet. So some of these are an after some a before but they all had damage.  I have cut new silhouettes of my own family that hang on my wall and other other peoples families.  But that was free hand and not using a computer I like the free hand more but these where too fragile and not mine so I could not bring them home.  With the aid of the computer I can still cut these free hand just by seeing the image on the screen and have a set of them.  Which is pretty cool as my great grandmother I never met so it is a silhouette that I would have never seen in real life.

My mom and aunt

suzette and nonnie

my Tia (aunt)

aunt nonnie

nonnie

my mom

suzette

suzette

My Biza Avo ( my great grandmother)

Maria

>Silhouettes

23 Mar 2009 Leave a Comment

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>I like to cut silhouettes, but I am not as fast as I would like to be at them; it takes me a little bit of time. But this lady is fast — 30 seconds for a sitting. WOW! Watch the video and see, yes she works for Disney. I cut the one to the right a long time ago. You can make these yourself, but if you don’t live near Disney and don’t want to cut them, I sell these items in my etsy store. Each is one of a kind image of your family members and sure to be an heirloom (each is a set of two mirror images).

>Re-purposed Dress into Butterfly Slip / Prize awarded

09 Nov 2007 2 Comments

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antique butterfly lace
So the butterfly girl wants a butterfly bedroom, but that all has to wait a little. Because she is having a real big growing spurt, we made a butterfly slip yesterday and today. I found this yellow piece of lace at an antique store and bought it just because it had butterflies on it. I love the butterfly silhouettes on this.

Then, three days ago I realized my daughter had grown out of all three of her slips. So I came up with an idea to correct this.

Re-purposed

At one time we had a dress that had tulle on it that kept ripping off, and I got tired of repairing it. So I cut off its underskirt, and sewed on lots of lace to give the slip volume to fluff up her dresses. Then took the pattern from the yellow lace, used size 10 thread and a size 5 steel hook and made three repeats of the pattern, also 3 solid rows so I had something to sew buttons to. Then I added crochet straps and attached to skirt. Wish I had taken a picture of the before dress; trust me, this is an improvement. My daughter is happy to have a so-called new slip, especially since it has butterflies on it. The lace is actually sewn on straight; it just looks funny in the photos.

500 Post Prize goes to:

“Javajem said…
Congrats on 500!!!
I always get inspired when I read your blog :)
Wed, Oct. 31, 2007 10:49:00 AM”

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I will be sending out fat quarters, vintage mother of pearl buttons and other items. I need your mailing address to mail this to you. My email is on the side bar so you can send it to me privately. I would love to see what you make with any of the items.

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