I wanted the wood to look like it was varying shades and different pieces of wood so I taped up sections of all different widths.
Then I scrounged through my husbands stain drawer, and started wiping on stain. Once the strips of varying stains were dry, I ran some walnut stain over the whole thing.
While all that dried, I pulled out my electronic cutter – the Silhouette SD. This was a bit tricky because my cutter would certainly not cut the horse the size I needed it. So I cut it out in bits and pieces and taped it all together. I used cardstock for my paper.
Then, I soaked the back of my horse with spay adhesive. It is important to get every square inch really good. You don’t want the paint to sneak under your paper.
After I made sure the horse was stuck to the wood good enough, I took a can of white glossy spray paint and painted the whole thing.I was too impatient to wait for it to dry – so I peeled the horse right off.
Once it was dry, I took a sander to the whole thing, scuffing to my pleasure.
It really turned out better than I had hoped.
So while I went to do the second horse, I had always intended to do the same method, so my silhouette was already cut out. However, when I stuck the paper horse on I realized how much I would like it if the staining and painting was reversed for the second piece.
So at that point, I took a pencil and traced the horse shape onto the stained wood. Then I carefully hand painted the horse on in white, and sanded after so more wood grain would show through the stain. This method definitely took longer.
Had I known I was doing this beforehand, I imagine I would have kept the outer part of the silhouette that I cut out, and then spray painted like I did the first one.
Does this make any sense?
But now that it is all done, I am quite pleased with my horses.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
I love Arabians and own 4 real live Arabian horses. So I want to make the horse art on the right. But I have a long way to go since I barely know what<br />Silhouette Art is. ha ha
I love this. My husband and I are from Kentucky so the horse is a reminder of home. Plus my grandparents used to have some huge horse print in their living room over their couch and this would be a great tribute. Thanks for the tutorial. Now I know what to do with the old pallets I wouldn't let him throw away.
Hi I love these! Would you sell two like this to me? Do you take custom order?<br />Thanks<br />[email protected]<br />
Thank you for saying that you used your Silhouette to make this!! I'd been looking for a horse shape online for awhile to also try to replicate this piece, and couldn't find anything I liked. When I saw your site, I fell in love with the horse shape you used and was able to find it on Silhouette's site still! Thank you!
This is amazing! I love this! Thank you sooo much for the tutorial! I'm going to do one for my daughters birthday party! I'm excited! I have a cricut but I think I'm going to turn my iphone into a projector with the horse image and trace it on a paper and cut it out. Somedays I wish I could trade my Cricut for a Silhouette but I did manage to get Sur Cut A lot I just need a windows
Marvelous! Thanks for sharing! Popping over from The Cottage Market. :)<br />~ Heidi
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I ABSOLUTLY LOVE THE ART! beautiful, i want to make one of these, would love to feature them, if that would be ok please let me know<br />lauren
I absolutely love these – awesome! I wish you had these for sale, I would definitely purchase! Very cool!
How exactly did you attach the planks together?
So creative with your post – measured the wall sections where I wanted the horses to go. Then I sent the hubs out to the garage to plank some wood for me to the size I wanted.
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You done good! Thanks for the breakdown which makes it a doable project 🙂
Beautiful! What size is the finished product? Thank you!