Comments on: diy project: alexandra hedin’s family portraits http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=diy-project-alexandra-hedin Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:29:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: anonhttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-76502 anon Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:09:33 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-76502 It's lovely, but I'm dying to know who the lucky one was that came after the dog... It’s lovely, but I’m dying to know who the lucky one was that came after the dog…

]]> By: Lisahttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-53279 Lisa Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:18:08 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-53279 I know this is a bit late (I wait a while so I can have one big dose of design*sponge at a time ;) ) but I actually just finished making some silhouette images using Illustrator - it's really very easy, and saves a lot of tracing and cutting (two things I'm not very good at!). All you have to do is open your picture in Illustrator, and set that layer to a template so that you can't make any changes to it by accident. Then, make a new layer on top of that and, using the pen tool, go around the edges of the pictures. If you zoom in, this is tres simple. Another hint - use a colour that contrasts with your picture for your stroke, and chose a transparent fill, for the moment. Once you have done that, you delete the bottom layer (the one with the photograph) and then change both the stroke and fill colour to black. Ta da! Silhouette! If you want to, you can then make a background for it by placing a large rectangle shape behind your silhouette and filling it with a patterned fill. I printed out my silhouette picture onto sketching paper, which gives it a very slight texture and a matt finish but this would also look good on photo paper. And, for extra credit, save your design as a png or tiff file, put it on a USB and find a shop that will print it on to canvas for you. Harvey Norman does it here in Australia, but I'm sure America has even more options. I hope this was helpful to some people! :) Lisa PS I just love the DIY section! I have made so many things for my house - this site inspires me :) I know this is a bit late (I wait a while so I can have one big dose of design*sponge at a time ;) ) but I actually just finished making some silhouette images using Illustrator – it’s really very easy, and saves a lot of tracing and cutting (two things I’m not very good at!). All you have to do is open your picture in Illustrator, and set that layer to a template so that you can’t make any changes to it by accident. Then, make a new layer on top of that and, using the pen tool, go around the edges of the pictures. If you zoom in, this is tres simple. Another hint – use a colour that contrasts with your picture for your stroke, and chose a transparent fill, for the moment. Once you have done that, you delete the bottom layer (the one with the photograph) and then change both the stroke and fill colour to black. Ta da! Silhouette! If you want to, you can then make a background for it by placing a large rectangle shape behind your silhouette and filling it with a patterned fill. I printed out my silhouette picture onto sketching paper, which gives it a very slight texture and a matt finish but this would also look good on photo paper. And, for extra credit, save your design as a png or tiff file, put it on a USB and find a shop that will print it on to canvas for you. Harvey Norman does it here in Australia, but I’m sure America has even more options. I hope this was helpful to some people! :)
Lisa
PS I just love the DIY section! I have made so many things for my house – this site inspires me :)

]]> By: Tomhttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-53026 Tom Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:43:26 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-53026 Beautiful Beautiful

]]> By: Kristanhttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-52543 Kristan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:46:19 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-52543 Very cute! Very cute!

]]> By: Lisahttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-52541 Lisa Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:45:19 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-52541 Alexandra Hedin is fabulous. She is creative, smart and throws the best parties for 425 magazine every issue. She's an inspiration. Alexandra Hedin is fabulous. She is creative, smart and throws the best parties for 425 magazine every issue. She’s an inspiration.

]]> By: Alexandra Hedinhttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-52519 Alexandra Hedin Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:52:32 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-52519 Thank you! The paint color is a fabulous warm grey called Worldly Grey by Sherwin Williams.I couldn't afford the whole sheet set either, so I paired really good white sheets with just the Dwell Studio pillowcasees. You get the look for loads cheaper. Thank you! The paint color is a fabulous warm grey called Worldly Grey by Sherwin Williams.

I couldn’t afford the whole sheet set either, so I paired really good white sheets with just the Dwell Studio pillowcasees. You get the look for loads cheaper.

]]> By: MsUnreliablehttp://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/10/diy-project-alexandra-hedin.html/comment-page-1#comment-52507 MsUnreliable Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:22:59 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=13376#comment-52507 This is so lovely! Makes me wish I wasn't already halfway through my own little canvas project! This is so lovely! Makes me wish I wasn’t already halfway through my own little canvas project!

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