silhouette tile

Posted on | May 31, 2010 | 10 Comments

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I’ve been thinking about what to give to my kids teachers for the end of the school year gift for a long time. I thought about making silhouette images of teachers etched on glass frames or vinyl on glass frames. But, that would take too long to make and I wanted something simpler.

I liked the style from ModernBirdStudios and thought about using woods. But, didn’t feel like asking anybody to cut the woods. Thought about using stretched canvas, but I wanted to save this for a future project.

Well, I remembered seeing a tutorial from theHybridChick.com on how to use Modge Podge to transfer images onto tile, and decided to use the tiles.

I liked this side profile photo of my kids.

I used this tutorial for creating two tone silhouette in Photoshop.

I made this one to test. But, for the actual gifts, I plan to use teachers photos. I hope I have all their photos. Heehee.

The tutorial said to use a laser printer, but I did not listen. I only have a black and white laser printer and really wanted to use brown color. So I tried the technique TWICE using images printed on my ink jet printer, and it did NOT work.

So, I tried the b/w laser printer and it worked like a charm (gray color). The ink scratched off from the tile when I was rubbing the transfer paper off (regular white printer paper). But, when I cleaned the title again the next day, the ink stayed on the tile. This technique will work on stretched canvas as well.

It doesn’t show on the photo, but I added clear liquid glue (Crystal Lacquer) over the image. It looks like embossed and I love it.

So if you haven’t decided on what to give to teachers, why not try this? =)

Category: 3-D, Photography

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10 Responses to “silhouette tile”

Jessica
May 31st, 2010 @ 1:57 AM

What a fun teacher gift!! I love how creative and personalized it is!
Marie-Pierre
May 31st, 2010 @ 5:25 AM

Very very nice!!!!!! I’m sure the teacher will love it!
Emily Leiphart
May 31st, 2010 @ 8:39 PM

Sunghee, you’re killing me! You have the best ideas and this is so, so amazing.
Sheena B
May 31st, 2010 @ 8:51 PM

Wow this is truly amazing, Sunghee!
Virginia L.
May 31st, 2010 @ 9:36 PM

UBER cool. Now why didn’t I think of that when I needed a teacher’s gift!!? Brilliant idea, Sunghee! xo
Cristina
May 31st, 2010 @ 9:36 PM

This is very cool, Sunghee!
Fabi
May 31st, 2010 @ 10:52 PM

Wow! I never thought this idea as this teacher’s day. Very cool! Thanks for share with us. Fabi.
Deirdre
June 1st, 2010 @ 2:34 AM

Fab idea…. love the tile.
Julia Spencer
June 2nd, 2010 @ 12:33 PM

Wonderful! I tried this on Canvas… And love love love the result! I will be doing more of these!
jo
June 2nd, 2010 @ 11:12 PM

Great idea! So fabulous!