I loved these silhouette portraits found on Design Mom a while back so I decided to try and create my own. I took a profile picture of Henry last night (which proved to be tricker than I thought. We ended up having to wait until he was sleepy and pull the binkie out of his mouth to take the shot, hence the open mouth). I resized the image in photoshop and printed it out.

Then I traced it onto grey cardstock and cut it out. Care…fu….ly.

This is what I have now.
Next step: I was planning on mounting it onto some of this white poster board and doing some fancy lettering at the bottom with his name/birthday. Maybe on the gocco.
I am also planning on putting some foam backing (part of my gocco supplies) so it will kind of stick out from the white board, to give it dimension.
But I’m stuck on what the finish product should look like.
Do I:
a. Mount the whole thing onto a stretched canvas board. And if so, so I choose oval or square?
or
b. Do I frame it?
and
c. does it look weird that his mouth is open?