Father's Day Stencil Cake and Whiskey Sours

Hope everyone had a great Father's Day! Father's Day for us was almost as much fun as Mother's Day because I got to spend the day with my family and also do some crafting.  J spent much of his day working on his walking and also taking a ride in a bike trailer with his mom and dad.  But since this blog is about projects, here are the Father's Day projects:

This stencil was made out of an actual picture of Rusty and Jacob.  I used Gimp, the free image manipulation program, to outline the silhouette, and then I used the trace feature with my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the stencil in (clean) cardstock.  I could have cut the stencil with an X-acto knife if I didn't have a Cameo, but the Cameo makes things quicker and automatic.  Here's what the stencil looked like on the cake:

Then I sprayed it with some Wilton Color Mist Spray from Michael's.  I expect it would have turned out smoother if I had better tools with me, or if I'd used a buttercream frosting that had hardened a bit.  I also considered fondant, which would probably work too.  Here was my backup plan:

This was sprayed on Edible Sugar Sheets, and I ultimately decided I preferred a softer look from spraying directly on the icing instead of using the sheets.  Perhaps those can be cut with a Silhouette Cameo as well, which would probably make the sharpest image, but I have not been able to figure out whether that is safe to do, both for the food and for the machine.

I used the stencil file for a card as well.  You can see the image better on paper, and I used Silhouette's latest free shape of the week to finish the card off.  So I got to spend a lot of time with my new toy preparing for Father's Day.  Whose day was it again?

We capped off Father's Day post-bedtime with some Ruhlman Whiskey Sours over the latest Mission Impossible.  A good day.

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