Silhouettes with the Silhouette!

I have wanted to make silhouette profiles

of my kids for a while!

well, it got cold...

which kept my crafting indoors...

I started by taking a profile photo against a white wall.

I could have taken more time to get it just so...

but I figured I would fix it up enough in 

photoshop...so alas, it is what it is.

I used photoshop to eliminate the background.

Select the inverse and then cut so it remained in black.

After some tweaking of lines, I saved my files as jpegs 

and brought them into the silhouette software.

Once in Silhouette studio, I just had to select the trace area

and then trace outer edge.

Silhouette's tutorial is good...the photo editing

work all done in ss...not photoshop.

Super simple!

then I cut a draft on regular paper...

got the sizes to fit the frames

{which I got for 20 cents each...}

Found some paper I liked...

Presto! 

Oooh!  I love those little profiles!