Our Character - Silhouette Swap

Whilst waiting upon my master Mr. Launcelot Penn esq. I like to while away a spare minute, cutting a portrait with my scissors and blackpaper. Have you ever tried cutting a silhouette? It is surprisingly easy and there are a few ways to achieve a good result. I do hope you will join in and cut your own silhouette for your partner.

Kindly in service,

Horace Lofthouse,

a Gentlemans' gentleman.

FOR THIS SWAP:

One silhouette ATC and a short note from your character to your partners character, to accompany. You will have ONE (1) swap partner.

Choosing a profile of yourself or one online you would like to cut imagining it is your character, draw or print one out that would fit on an ATC size card.

You might choose one or more ways to try your hand at cutting a silhouette of your chosen profile. There are a number of sites online that will guide you, or you might follow one of these suggestions.

Amanda suggests her cricut machine in the comments below - great idea for the modern tech savvy. Please forward any queries on this machine cutting a silhouette to @Steinway5 if you please.

For those without that skill you might try -
With black paper, gluestik behind your image on the reverse of the printout. Cut around the profile of your image, including any curls or ponytail or collar etc. finish chest level somewhere like in the images of the swap. When you turn the image over it will have your cut black silhouette all ready to glue onto your prepared ATC card.

SO, once you have your silhouette in hand, prepare your ATC of REGENCY era. Perhaps a striped wallpaper like background to give an idea. Keep it subtle, flat, and let the black silhouette be the star. Usually a silhouette is on a plainish background or feint patterning. Your ATC does not need to be thick like the traditional rules, it need only be placed on light cardstock or watercolour paper. You might border the ATC with a delicate pattern. NOTHING 3D. That is right, no fancy embellishments. These will be going into your journal, and will be a regular feature every now and then, so that we get all our villagers by our books end. On the front of the ATC write your characters name and on the back of the ATC your swap name and the swap on the back.

To accompany and to enclose your ATC within, Write as your Amberleigh character to your partners village character in a little note or short letter, if you need help, try the way shown on our blog. https://welcometoamberleigh.wordpress.com

The swap is marked as a Type 3, even though it is a flat envelope send out, as you are making a small creation.

I hope you will join us in this more unusual swap. Any queries, please write below or message either one of us.

Anna and Jane, Nickalli & Toni