My New Hall Decor: Part 2

Here is part 2 of my $50 hall makeover. While browsing over some of my old magazines, something caught my eye. The silhouette art on the wall. I've seen this before, a few times at least. I always thought it was super cute... so why can't I do it, and make it for cheap?  So the mission was on: Silhouette Art for the hall. Going into the project all I knew is that I wanted to do a mix-match of black and white framed silhouettes, all a little different from the next.

My inspiration came from two seperate places. The first was from Do It Yourself magazine...

Here is where I first saw the silhouette art idea, and LOVED it...

I headed to Michael's and picked out seven sheets of 12x12 scrap-booking paper in five different patterns. Then I grabbed about 5 sheets of plain black paper to be the silhouette's, a "wanna be" exacto knife. Total: $48.

I started from my first inspiration image - the three peonies in an urn. I got out some sketching paper that I had, which was randomly left in a closet when we moved in by the previous owner. I freehanded it while looking at the magazine image very closely. :)  My eraser got a lot of use in that sitting. 

 

After that was done, I just went crazy with it and kept going ...

 

The following is traced from the picture that is hanging above the shelf on the other side of my hall. 

 

 I traced the flower and butterfly and arranged them a little differently...

   

This next one was traced from two separate wedding pictures of Ryan and I. I added a rose in my hand and trimmed a couple inches off my hips. If you look closely, Ryan doesn't have any feet. I couldn't make the shoes look right so I opted to do without. Its low on the wall, hopefully nobody will notice. =)

These letters took me for-EV-er to get just right. I didn't have anything to copy off of, and I am not much of an artist. This took me probably 30 minutes to get right. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was so easy, I am thinking of trying this idea for some Christmas decor. I totally recommend trying this out, it took a few hours and was super easy and cheap. And if I get sick of the colors, I can always switch out the background paper - each piece was only 59 cents! If I can do it, anyone can do it!