{"id":166,"date":"2014-01-03T20:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/?p=166"},"modified":"2014-01-04T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T09:46:06","slug":"first-we-had-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"First we had each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"color: #ff4b33; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/firstwehadeachother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116 alignleft\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"firstwehadeachother\" src=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/firstwehadeachother.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/firstwehadeachother.jpg 800w, http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/firstwehadeachother-235x300.jpg 235w, http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/firstwehadeachother-400x508.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was my\u00a0first attempt at using vinyl with my Silhouette Cameo. \u00a0I wanted to make something a little different for my stepson and daughter-in-law&#8217;s anniversary, the first with a new baby.<\/p>\n<p>The typography &#8216;first we had each other&#8217; had caught my eye on the Silhouette online store (designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loriwhitlock.com\/\">Lori Whitlock<\/a>). \u00a0After much trial and error I found a suitable photo of my gorgeous granddaughter that would look good as just a white image.<\/p>\n<p>In Photoshop I\u00a0converted the image to black and white. \u00a0I then made an adjustment layer using the threshold setting and used the slider until the photo was recognisable and not too broken up at the edges. \u00a0I cut it out thinking that this would just be a test and further tweaking would be needed but to my surprise when I tried it on black card it looked great.<\/p>\n<p>This effect should also be possible to achieve using the online photo editing site http:\/\/pixlr.com\/editor\/. \u00a0Upload a photo, convert to black and white and in the Adjustment menu choose Threshold and play around with the levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my\u00a0first attempt at using vinyl with my Silhouette Cameo. \u00a0I wanted to make something a little different for my stepson and daughter-in-law&#8217;s anniversary, the first with a new baby. The typography &#8216;first we had each other&#8217; had caught my eye on the Silhouette online store (designed by Lori \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/?p=166\">Continue reading<i class=\"icon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-silhouette-cameo","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulajeffery.com\/fadville\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}