Cricut and SCAL - Silhouette of my Son

Oh boy!!!

I'm pretty excited! I decided to go with a "low tech" method of getting the silhouette of my son's baby photo. I decided that my learning curve on how to do this in Inkscape is WAAAAY too steep. So here is what I decided to do:

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1) Convert the photo to black and white.

2) Printed out the photo on text weight paper.

3) Got an overhead transparency and a sharpie and traced the lines that I wanted cut.

4) Took a photo of my drawing (yes, I know! I need to get a good scanner!!!)

5) Re-edited the photo of my drawing to darken the black.

6) Uploaded the .jpg image of my drawing into Inkscape

7) Converted the image to an .svg file

8) Cut it out!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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I would love to make a t-shirt using this cut out as a stencil. I'll let you know if I am able to get it to work!!!

Here is the black and white photo: Is this a "prom night pic" or what?!! I LOVE this picture!!

Here is the pic of the drawing I made:

Here is the cut on vinyl. Yes. It did take forever to cut, but IT CUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Yippie! I'm really, really happy with it!!!!!!!!!!!