{"id":317,"date":"2011-06-15T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funcakedecoratingideas.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-06-14T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:33:06","slug":"opt-in-page-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funcakedecoratingideas.com\/blog\/317\/opt-in-page-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Cake Decorating Ideas – Specialty Cakes – Opt-in Page Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OptinThis was a cake I made for my hubbie’s birthday.<\/p>\n

He is my techie and geek (besides being a great father and husband). He does all the behind the scenes stuff (the technical stuff) for my websites and the programming. So I thought it would be appropriate to make him a, slightly lower tech, website.<\/p>\n

He is not your typical computer nerd though, he is into lots of sports, and no, not chess and checkers, but sailing, squash, rowing etc. and like me, he loves to travel.<\/p>\n

That particular year my hubbie had set up my personal blog, AmandavanderGulik.com<\/a> for me on my birthday, so it was more than appropriate for me to do sort of the same.<\/p>\n

The idea was easy, we were in the process of updating some of our sites and a lot of other people on the internet just started doing video optin or squeeze pages.
\nSo I decided to make a video squeeze page, with a header, a catchy headline, a cool looking video and an optin form.<\/p>\n

It almost looks real and my husband suggested for me to make a cake to use for the background of a squeeze page for this site (FunCakeDecoratingIdeas.com)
\nI haven’t done this yet but I might do that soon.<\/p>\n

Needless to say that my husband was very surprised and he liked the cake idea very much. He blew out his candle and got to eat the optin button.<\/p>\n

I am not sure if all his dreams have come true yet, although I am sure some of them have.<\/p>\n

I had fun creating the cake and experimented a bit with the icing. The letters on the “Header” have a shadow effect, which I created by writing the letters in white first and then I traced them very thinly with black icing. This is sort of how my hubbie creates shadow effect for letters on graphics as well.<\/p>\n

The edges of the cake are decorated with butter-cream icing and the rest of the decoration is done with royal icing.<\/p>\n

The cake itself was my well known sponge cake and again with a bit of creativity and imagination, a fairly ordinary square cake turned out to be quite spectacular and very different from any cake I have ever made before.<\/p>\n

Not all our guests knew exactly what the cake was supposed to be, we do have friends that spend hardly any time online as well ;0)<\/p>\n

For more Fun Cake Decorating ideas with step by step instructions, go to Fun Cake Decorating Ideas<\/a>. Or get my book “Amanda’s Fun Cake Decorating Ideas Vol.1<\/strong>” Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheers…Amanda…Excited Life Enthusiast!<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> Don’t forget to click the Like<\/a> button in the Facebook box at the top right hand corner of this page, if you like what you see and read. And when you visit my Facebook page<\/a>, you will be in for a treat! There are some truly awesome cakes posted there!<\/p>\n

P.P.S.<\/strong> Don’t be shy to leave a comment, you can now leave comments just using your Facebook profile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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