Silhouette love...

We all love a good silhouette!  They seem to be all the rage in decorating (I even have a few framed in our home), popping up on lots of blogs and in our favorite decorating catalogs.  Here is a little inspiration:

Ballard Designs

Thomas Paul

I saw a dog silhouette pillow in a catalog recently and fell. in. love.  With the pillow...not the price tag!  They were charging $88 for the pillow.  It was beautiful, but I knew I could make it myself!

I have been slowly decorating our playroom and thought that was the perfect place for my silhouette pillow.  I simply made a cover to go over the existing throw pillow on our couch.

I took a picture of our dog, Raleigh:

And turned it into a silhouette using Photoshop:

From there, I printed the silhouette out so it was large enough to use as a template for my pillow.  I found some leftover fabric that matched Grayson's playroom in my stash - it's one of the fabrics that I used on his tent - and made this adorable pillow!

 

One of my favorite parts of the pillow is the contrasting blue thread that I used to applique the silhouette.  I love how it "pops"!

The designer dog silhouette pillow = $88

My custom "Raleigh" silhouette pillow cover = FREE....I already had the materials!

Next up...a silhouette pillow of Grayson!




I've linked this project up at Show and Tell Saturday!