Turning a line art image into a silhouette (digital or stamped image)

Today a whack of pictures with the teeny details

of these 2 Amber Ink Hostess with the Mostest cards...

&

...a general how-to for turning line art

(digital or stamped) into silhouettes.



Card #1...

(for this one, I hand cut the silhouette & adhered it to watercolour paper)

& Card #2...

(for this one I just printed the silhouette & cut with an oval cutter)



The silhouettes are an Amber Ink line art image that

I filled in PhotoShop to get a silhouette:







They're embellished with mini things like this

teeny tiny dinner invitation with a folded mini envelope

(made with paper, thread & printed text bits).

Here are the insides of the 2 cards:

The square card says "What's Cookin' Good Lookin?" inside.



The tall card has this little salad bowl in it

(which is also part of the Hostess with the Mostest set):

(It got the same silhouette treatment as the hostess.)

They both have matching envelopes:



One paper envelope:



(how to line any envelope quickly here).



And one upcycled organza bag:





(It used to have silk undies in it! *giggle*)



I stuck a mini tea towel & recipe card on the

organza envelope to hide the company logo:







The tea towel was made by printing a small section of

this ipaper onto Sticky Back Canvas and

wrapping it around a bit of cardstock & fraying the ends



The recipe card was made by printing a part of a recipe

sized to a 2 point font & cutting it out to measure

just under 1" x 3/4"

1... details: DIY mini card embellishments

2... the image Hostest with the Mostest from Amber Ink

3... how to make a line art image into a silhouettes (plain & patterned)

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Some mini things made of paper:

To make the mini pencil out of paper,

I rolled it like a paper bead.

Here's how:

1. Cut a wee scrap of patterned paper about 1 inch by 1/2 an inch.
2. Stick a teeny bit of double-sided tape on one side of it.
3. Roll the paper on a needle (adhering the paper to itself).
4. Slide the paper off of the needle.
5. Then cut the tip of the rolled paper with scissors to shape it into a point like a lead.
6. Draw on details (the pencil lead & the eraser) on with black and silver pens.

The recipe card is identiacl to the one on the

organza envelope above (again, 2 point font).

To make the book, I cut & folded some tiny little pieces of paper

(patterned and copy paper) and doodled on them.

...then stitched the pages together & wrapped some turquoise thread

around the cover and pasted on a tiny printed label.

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(in digital or stamps)

This Amber Ink set is called

Hostess with the Mostest:



I used the digital version:

...but they also have

Do you prefer stamping?



You can find the stamps here.





I also used these 2 digi papers:



ipaper Schoolgirl Plaid





& Swiss Dots Sunny Yellow tiny





My printer a Canon MP240 prints colours funnily,

so I added green to these papers (+100 green)

before printing.



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...create silhouettes from line art images:



DIGITAL SILHOUETTE:



Open the silhouette in Photoshop

(or other digital software that is

capable of filling images with solid colour.)



Fill all the areas of the line art image

Then print it & use your image:







This digital fill is how I did the ones I used on the cards above

(but not with a deep black. I like using black at 80% to get a silhouette

that reads as dark, but still shows some of the line art of the image.)



You can even get a funky patterned silhouette:







Simply fill the image with a pattern

(Please see this tutorial post if you'd like

to see how pattern filling works).



STAMPED SILHOUETTE:



Stamp the image & then simply colour it in:







To create a patterned stamped silhouette:







Stamp the line art image, then stamp & heat emboss a pattern over it

(with clear embossing powder) then colour it in.



...and here are the cards again:





measurements:

square card: 4 1/2" wide x 5" tall

tall card: 3 1/2" wide x 6 3/8" tall

Thanks for having a look.

Hope you & yours are doing well,