made: paper cut family portrait

Have you noticed our new header? I am very excited about it. In fact, I keep clicking over to our page to look at it. It makes me happy. :)

I don't know how it started, but the idea just popped into my head one night. So I drew out a little sketch, planning out my layers. Then I made several photocopies  and used them as patterns. I pulled out my handy dandy knife and cutting mat and got to work. Charlie took the most layers. (His is my favorite depiction because he is chewing on his foot, his real life hobby.) I put everything together using tape (which added some nice dimension) or, for the tiny pieces, just some regular old glue stick glue. Then I scanned them and edited the color, saturation, and brightness in Photoshop Elements. (Notice I changed the color of Steve's pants... I didn't have any blue-enough scrapbook paper so I just changed the tint in PSE). Here is what everything looked like in its original scan colors:

And of course you see the final at the top. But here it is again: