A Silhouette Challenge from Less is More

We are sponsoring the Less is More challenge this month. 

The challenge through Friday is to create a card using the theme of  silhouettes.

Perfect time and place to reprint Mel's Tutorial.

...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.

So what's cookin' good lookin'?

Ready to be #100?

LESS IS MORE

And this just in...Lucianna accepted the challenge with this gorgeous silhouette...

LUCIANNA!

Pure class.

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