Where We Met Silhouette Picture

I found picture of a project I did last year as a present for my husband. Since we first got together I have made a point to make at least one of his presents myself every year. This one now hangs in our bedroom.

Last year one of them was a silhouette of the place we met. Don't recongize the place? Don't feel bad, lol, we met in an on line video game, World of Warcraft. It was so romantic, I was a healer and my group was looking for a tank, we found him, and the rest is history.

Materials Needed:

Picture frame (I scaled mine for a 8x10) $11.99 at Hobby Lobby, then 40% off!
Scrap booking paper, mine took three sheets/colors (I chose thick sparkly sheets, sparkle = good)
X-acto Knife (needs to be very sharp)
Something to cut on, I used my fabric cutting board
Tape
Scissors for trimming
Ruler for measuring and making sure you get straight lines
The image of where you met (might want to have a couple identical copies, that's the one thing I wish I had done, I ended up having to be very careful and tape it back up before I went on to the next part).

This was the finished product. See, three colors.

This is the image I worked off of. This was the instance in the game that were met in. 8 years ago, lol and we still play that game till this day.

I cut the frame of the image, man, castle and the front tree out of black. The furthest trees and moon out of light purple, and used a dark purple sheet as the background, and that one didn't need to be cut at all.

All I did was lay the image on top of the piece I was cutting and tape it in a few spots around to the back of the image so the two were stuck together but I could still move the image as I was working. This took a lot of hunching over nose to image to complete.

So just pick which layers you want which colors and slowly and CAREFULLY (those knives be sharp) cut out the image. As long as your knife is sharp and you are willing to put the time into it you can do as detailed of an outline as you want. I did find it took some hit and miss testing to find the exact right pressure needed to cut through the thick (and yes very sparkly scrap booking paper I had chosen). And be prepared for sore finger tips and indents that might last a few hours.

Once you are done, just stack the image and put it into your frame. Easy right!

One thing I did do afterwards was write a little note to my husband and glued it on the back of the frame, it's never a bad thing to put it into words how much you love and appreciate the people in your life!

Over all the project cost less than $10.00 but the look on my husbands face when he opened this present was priceless. Something that comes from the heart is always best.