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Great Big Adventure
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Great Big Adventure

Pencil was a house cat when the kids adopted her years ago, and has been a house cat ever since. Her experience with the Great Outdoors when she slipped through the door with the dogs was terrifying for all. She managed to weather the night safely and was back at home at dinnertime the next day, though very unsettled.

To make this layout, I free-hand blended my photo into the Artsy Paper using my favorite blending Brushes; for more depth and texture, I added the text and wordArt, then piled on the pumpkins, using layers from them to soften my blended edges in the blanket area. I recolored the wordART and gave it a stroke to make it pop. I finished with the Script Tease Overlay, recolored, duplicated and blended with Overlay mode to deepen. There were some fun artstrokes in the second part of the Artplay Palette, so I added them as well as some other transfers/overlays.
Pencil was probably wondering what all the fuss was about. But, having been on the other side of this story, I know every emotion. We even purchased night cameras for outside to figure out if our kitty was coming out at night. Once we figured out his schedule, we waited in chairs near an open door for him to come home. He seemed relieved to be back with his buddies and have food but I think he thought we were simply helicopter parents.
Terrific page!!
Cats are truly inscrutable! I'm told that Pencil keeps a safe distance from the door these days. Doesn't sound like she was too impressed with what the outside world has to offer (she also came down with a fever and respiratory illness a couple of days after her adventure, entailing a vet visit and antibiotics, so there's that).
 
Poor Pencil, and everyone else, must have been scary! I just love the look of this, such a bold yet soft composition - great blended photo and love those pumpkins - I am so often too literal with my embellishments - think I'll put pumpkins on my next page no matter what it's about :)
Go for the pumpkins!
 
Love this photo and your earthy handmade pumpkins. Glad the adventure has a happy ending.
 

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