A Very Loooong Project

I am probably the last one left in all of Blogland (like how I exaggerated a bit?) to finally do a silhouette project.  At least it feels like it.  For me it started around October, especially when I saw this great project:

From Lisa at The Pennington Point.  How could you not {heart} it, right?  I set out to copy it exactly, except, you know, with my family members and all.

I took profile pictures of all the CC family around the holidays.  Yes, that far back!  (Fortunately, you can't see the looks of boredom on Darling Children's faces as I insisted they stand in profile for a photo.)

 

I recycled the frame that I had asked for your opinions on quite some time ago.  It used to hold a mirror, but somehow got cracked whilst in Strapping Lad's bathroom.  I had to break the mirror out (no easy task, I might add).  That led to the frame coming apart into three pieces that ended up in different parts of the garage...

Luckily, (ha!) we had to replace our TV a few months ago, so I was able to get a piece of cardboard that was long enough to fit the frame (about 48"--note my precise cutting skills).

Burlap wasn't in my original plan, either, since I was copying Lisa, and hers had a nice light background.  However, I was planning on putting it on my chocolate brown walls and didn't want the high-contrast of white, so burlap it was.  Which then led to finding a piece in my stash.  I ended up cutting an old project apart to get this color of burlap, and piecing it.  I had another long chunk of burlap that the color just looked "Yuck."  You can quote me on that.

Now that I've gotten all of my whining out of the way, I must say, this is one of those projects that was really simple, but so FUN.  I {heart!} that it is personal.  The cutting of the actual silhouettes went quickly.  I had to hand cut out my numerals, too.  They correspond to the family member.  I put the papers together including onto the burlap with rubber cement.  I used spray adhesive to attach the burlap to the cardboard, hot glue to attach burlap to the back of the cardboard and E-6000 to glue the frame back together.  That's alotta gluin'!

I really intended this to be hung in the loft, but there is lots and lots of Healthy Chick's shower gifts up here, so that will have to wait.  (Oooh, did that count as whining?)

Happily, because of the dimensions of the frame, it looks pretty cool leaning.  What about you?  Have you completed your silhouette project yet?

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