Cake Is Always A Good Idea

First of all, I have good news - our missing cat from last week’s post has been found!  She was in a neighbour’s shed all along, despite them checking.  We believe she was afraid of their dog and wouldn’t come out.  I wish I’d gone around and checked myself, she might have come to me.  Anyway, she was checked out by the vet and, despite losing a third of her body weight, she is absolutely fine.  Having not eaten for 3 weeks, we’re having to feed her a small amount, slowly increasing her food allowance over a week so that she doesn’t have complications from refeeding syndrome.  She’s not very impressed with her meagre rations though!

It was my brother-in-law’s birthday earlier this week and, having watched Visible Image’s Live earlier in the week, I grabbed the same sets Mark used, Grunge Birthday Words and Blow Out The Candles.  I also got out some other favourites, Stamper’s Anonymous Snarky Cats and Snarky Cats Halloween.  I white heat-embossed the Grunge Birthday Words and then sprayed with some Distress Spray Stains.  The cats were stamped in black and clear heat-embossed.  I also stamped the edges of the cats on the background so that I wouldn’t have to cut around all the hairs.

Next, I coloured the cats and cake with alcohol markers and fussy cut them.

To make the cream filling for the cake, I used Cosmic Shimmer’s Fluffy Stuff and heated it until it puffed up.  I would normally add Glossy Accents to the icing but I didn’t have time so I coloured over the icing with a Versamark pen and heat-set with clear embossing powder to give a little shine.

For the cat sliding down the background, I trimmed the panel and distressed the cut edges to make it look like he’d shredded it with his claws.

I stamped some sentiments and candles and then attached all the elements to the background panel.  The ginger cat was glued directly onto the panel and everything else was attached using thin foam tape.