Silhouettes- a step further

I've been seeing artwork lately using the pages from sheet music and old books. It gave me an idea on how to redo with our silhouettes from a while ago. Of course our originals are not hung back up on the wall since remodeling because I have yet to finish my gallery wall. And true to my typical procrastinating self, I decided to look past all the halfway finished projects and looming todo lists, and give this little project a go. My materials: scrapbook paper, old poetry book, silhouettes, scissors, tape and ModPodge.

I resized the kids' silhouettes using photoshop and printed out the smaller black and white copy. Out of an old poetry book I chose some sweet poems (Twas the night before Christmas for little guy and A Butterfly for the gal), taped silhouettes to the back of the poem, and cut around the black silhouette.

I cut some scrapbook paper to the size of my frames and situated the cut out silhouettes on them.

I loved the way that they were coming along so much that I decided to make one of our newest family member, my daughter's pet parakeet. Kinda silly, I know, but when I found a poem about flying in a garden it had to be done. I cheated though and just found a silhouette online.

Then I painted on some ModPodge. This was actually my very first experience with using ModPodge, and I'm not sure I did it right because I ended up with some wrinkles. I'll be looking into that.

And then I got a little carried away... Seeing the remaining two identical frames I had left (I told you I had a "collection" of frames going for a while now), I decided my husband and I needed our likenesses done as well. He was only slightly confused when I asked him to take my side-shot and then I took his. A few snapshots, some photoshopping, and a couple of love poems later, I had the whole family done.

{What a wonderful discovery this poem by Roy Croft was.}

I figure since they are just 5x4.5" each, it's not completely obnoxious. I'm actually pretty excited about them. Of course, now I have five more things to hang, right after I finish that gallery wall!