Technique Tuesday: Stylish Silhouettes

Looking for a simple yet stylish holiday card design? Layer customized silhouette clip art images either by hand or digitally for a cool and unique greeting card that won’t take hours to create! The photo card above features a hand-cut deer image from patterned paper…while the card below was created with mirrored images layered in Photoshop.

There’s still time to get your custom-designed card printed…online card services like Cards Direct and Shutterfly offer a number of convenient options. For a truly unique holiday photo card, PhotoWorks has a number of truly unique designs that I couldn’t resist ordering!!!

This concept speaks to collage and mixed media art…I’ve posted step-by-step instructions for creating a layered silhouette collage from clip art on my other blog, Creative Collage.

Posted on Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 at 1:14 am. Filed under: Blog, The Crafty Girl, art technique RSS 2.0 feed.

5 Responses to “Technique Tuesday: Stylish Silhouettes”

1. ~~~Drama Queen's Mom~~~ says:

   12/14/2005 at 3:01 am

   awesome cards!
2. miss fish says:

   12/14/2005 at 1:17 pm

   Oh my!
   I just stumbled across your site and have read every entry on the main page. Your work is delicious.
   Insta-bookmark for me! :)
3. Kip says:

   12/15/2005 at 10:33 pm

   I’m going to have to remember these cool online stores next year, re: cards as it’s very apparent that my homemade ones are not going to get made….lol!

   Kip
4. Alina Chau says:

   12/23/2005 at 7:50 am

   WOW!! Your christmas card series are awesome!! GREAT STUFFS!
5. Crafty Green Poet says:

   01/13/2006 at 2:28 pm

   I love that deer silhouette card! Excellent! I’m going to put a link to this blog from mine. I really like your work.