Uh Oh... It's the day before the day before Mother's Day...

Have you gotten your daddy's baby momma a gift yet?

I know that I was cutting it close on time; however, I had an idea of what I wanted to do. Something involving the grand kids - she loves all things related. I knew I couldn't go wrong.

My parents are just about done getting their house back in order after their kitchen fire last year [I still owe after pics; soon, promise]. For Christmas last year, I framed a Subway art piece that I made for my parents. They don't normally hang things on their walls [Weird, right?] - but they loved that piece and it's going up.

There was one other thing my momma has always longed for. Silhouettes. Of her grandchildren. And since it just so happens I have all four of her lovely kiddos under my roof [Abby leaves at the end of June, boo hoo], I took advantage of their heads and went to work.

First, I took side shots of the kids. Up close and personal like. Then, I loaded each of the pictures into Photoshop.  There was no need to do any fancy editing, I was just going to turn them black anyway.

First I used the magic wand tool:

I click on the wall space, and it took away most of what I needed, but not all. So I then ZOOMED in real close and selected the eraser tool:

While zoomed in, I carefully erased anything other than my kid's head; anything that was left over from the magic wand tool.

Once that was completed, I used the Paint Bucket, ensuring my color was selected [black], and filled in the big ol' head:

I resized the image to a 7x5 (not 5x7) and added the kids' names in text. Once I saved it as a JPEG, I uploaded it to Costco and printed it in Matte. I am also going to see what it looks like on ivory card stock.

Now I all I need to do is go get a frame that holds four 5x7s or one large frame and center them.

Why just stop at kids?! You can silhouette your dog, your own head, your momma's favorite animal. Anything! =) Cost is sooo low. And it's pretty easy to do!

Now, I've given strict orders for my mom to NOT visit my blog until Monday, so that she can be surprised! Let's see if she's able to hold out.

Lookie at whom I am partying it up with -->