Motif: Silhouettes

I am admittedly silhouette-obsessed. Ever since we got them as souvenirs from our trip to Paris three years ago, I was hooked (and don’t get me started on the opening credits to Mad Men, hehe).  I just love their charm and how they fit right into both traditional and modern settings.

I only got as far as incorporating them in our Thank You cards (below), but I totally would have used them as our main motif had I been thinking creatively enough (or if only the photo inspiration above came during my planning, haha!).

Silhouettes are no longer only made the old-fashioned way either.  Of course, you can always go to Montmartre or to Disneyland and get your portraits hand-done by paper cut and silhouette artists.  Or get them online from artist Karl Johnson and others from Etsy.  But since I know you haven’t OD’ed on DIY projects just yet, here’s a few goodies for you:

• Tutorials: here and here on how to make your own silhouettes (the latter, you’d have to scan and digitize to use on your paperie).

• Free Dingbats: lowercase g for the Victorian lady and lowercase p for the Mad Men-ish guy

Can you see these two with the blue Victorian frame here?

Someone please use them so I may live vicariously through you!  Still not convinced?  Well then, I shall leave you with this.

{ image credits: 1, 2, 4 }