Silhouette Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive) Paperback – Illustrated, March 28, 1995

This book contains 153 royalty-free silhouettes, many of them very elegant. I copy and cut them out to decorate greeting cards (see customer image above for a card using one of the silhouettes of a lady in a hat), but they would also make lovely framed subjects, especially in pairs. The silhouettes include landscapes, numerous ladies in elaborate headdresses, butterflies, flowers, and fairies. There are a few animal silhouettes, but if that is what you're really looking for, try Dover's "Ready-to-Use Animal Silhouettes (Dover Clip Art Ready-to-Use)."Other supplies needed to create the silhouettes for greeting card decorations include an X-acto craft knife with extra packages of #11 blades, a pair of small-bladed scissors, a printer/copier, Scherenschnitte paper (black on one side and white on the reverse side), a good cutting surface, and glue in a container with a small tip (alternatively, squeeze out a blob of glue and apply it to the reverse side of the cut-out with a toothpick).

I especially love the butterfly patterns! This is only a collection of patterns. There are no instructions so you need to already know how to use the book.

I like it but there seems to be alot of similar pages. I was really looking formore vairety of patterns. ( not so many " victorian" and fairies )

Great just what I needed

This book is strictly pictures of sihouettes. There aren't any tips or techniques, but it has a sleuth of pics that can be easily intergrated into one's art. However, I find there are a lot of female, fairy, and butterfly images, but this is what I was looking for. They are mostly vintage-themed as well (Victorian and 40-50's?).

The variety of designs,

Was not impressed. Sending back. Too simple and outdated

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