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)

-1-

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.

-2-

(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,