If you read my last post on making a "hospital survival kit" then you know that there is some sort of baby fever lingering in my life somewhere! My boyfriends sister is having a baby boy! (Actually at this very moment she may indeed be in labor!) When I was asked to help plan and execute different things for her shower it was as if a light bulb went off in my head---DING! I get to make all kinds of crafty things and get those "creative juices" flowing!! YAY!
A diaper cake is simply a cake looking structure made entirely of diapers and some other little decorations, it is SO easy to make, trust me! A diaper cake isn't a necessity, but is a nice table top piece for the guest sign in table or the gift table or even the table where the escort cards are sitting, YES this shower had escort cards haha The theme of this particular shower was sports so I took that idea and went with it!
I am going to link to the video that I used to guide me through making this little guy. I didn't follow the video to a T, but watched it a few times beforehand and got a general idea of what I was supposed to do. I even used things that we had leftover from the centerpieces we made to tie in the theme and save some $! :)
Here's what I did:
- Ribbons are usually a simple yet super awesome thing to use to decorate a diaper cake.
- Diapers in newborn or size 1 work best. I needed about 63
- Scissors
- Tons of Rubber Bands of all different sizes
- Inner tubing from a paper towel roll
- Hot Glue Gun
- Optional Cake Base which you can easily find at your local craft store!
Heat up the glue gun and roll each diaper tightly into a little "log" haha Secure them together with a rubber band.
Your rows are going to go 6,12,18 diaper logs for the base layer, second layer will be just 6,12 and final tier will just be 6 :) remember secure everything together with a rubber band like shown in the photo above. At times I could have sworn that the rubber band was going to snap on me but it held up perfectly! :)
In the final product shown at the very top, I used shredded green paper as "grass" in between the layers to conceal the layer seams :) I also used some rubber sports balls as a header and glued those bad boys on with the glue gun. Hymm, what else, oh I actually glued down the diaper cake in its entirety to the cake base that I bought because these particular diapers I used were not going to be used on baby. The photo above reflects the cake base before I trimmed off about 1.5 inches all the way around so that it was more proportionate :)
To fill anything in that I may have missed because I know I probably missed something, here is the video that I was inspired by when making this piece :) It was the most understandable that I found!
Good Luck and anymore questions just hit the "Contact Me" tab above and shoot me an email and I will respond as soon as I can!
Sure, I know I could always have just bought a diaper cake, but for me, making things makes them more from the heart <3
Diaper Cakes INSTEAD of Dirty Diapers haha,
xox
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