Today I saw a beautiful Baby Shower Cake that one of my fellow Demo, Jo-ann Pullen, made recently. It reminded me of the Diaper Cake (above) I made for a co-worker's baby shower before I became a demo. I thought I would post how I put mine together to give you guys another idea of how you can make your own. Next one I make will be so much better now that I am an SU Demo as there are so many more things that I can do to jazz up my cake!
I made my cake with 2 packages of diapers. I used cloths pins to hold the diapers together while I was assembling as I didn't have an extra set of hands. I linked them together until I had enough to make a ring (waistband in the middle and fold to the outside). With the last cloths pin closing the circle, I tied my ribbons around the outside to hold them together.
On Jo-ann's cake, she used bright and beautiful selections of SU Designer Series Paper to hold the diapers in place, with a co-ordinating ribbon which was just beautiful.
For the top layer of "cake" I folded the waist band in to reduce the diameter of the top ring to give it the classic cake look. The assembly is the same as the first layer but it's a little trickier with the fold wanting to push everything apart.
If you can't find one of those fancy tinfoiled covered cake platter you can also make your own. I made mine using green ribbon in a box pleat ruffle, stapled to a cardboard circle cut from a box, wrapped with baby wrapping paper (it had little pink, blue, yellow and green foot prints all over it ... can you say "aaaawwwww!"?) Even at this stage, it is a lovely gift, wrap in celo and away you go - a little bit fancier then just a package of diapers in wrapping paper!
Once the layers were assembled, I took it a step further by decorated the whole cake with baby items, booties, toys, lotions and creams, stuffies and onesies! All the little things that New Mom & Dad are going to need with the new bundle of joy. Several girls from the office donated a few dollars each to provide the supples for this cake and I donated my time, did the shopping and all the little extras that made this cake so festive.
I secured the various items to the binding ribbon with thinner ribbon to keep it in place and add a touch more "cute" factor. There was a sweet little green soother in a protective case being hugged by another little frog stuffy on this side.
Even from the back this cake is cute! The little blankie with the teddy bear head was the "icing" between the layers. A cute little outfit and another pair of booties. The sky and your imagination is the limit for this wonderful gift idea. The New Parents are gonna love you for the extra diapers and what ever else you add to your cake.
Give it a try next time you need a gift for an expectant Mom or Dad to be! It also makes a great center piece for the Buffet Table!
Salut for now!
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