Since the crafty zone is slowly but surely somewhat coming together, I felt compelled to create a diaper cake for Alex and Virginia’s baby shower.  They’re having a baby girl so I  used pink scrapbook paper (OK… I also almost never use pink scrapbook paper, so it was a good opportunity to use it!).  The farm animals were of course, purchased… and inside the cake was a baby bottle and some “butt paste”.  Yeah.  Baby stuff has the stupidest cutesy names!

This entire process was definitely a learning experience… we spent time in the diaper aisle, trying to find newborn-sized diapers.  Apparently this is easier said than done (I think maybe super double coupon week at the grocery store did not help the situation), so the cake ended up with size 2 diapers.  Oh well,  I guess now the baby can enjoy the cake for a few months before disassembling it.. haha.

It was pretty easy and fun to make – only took me a few late evenings to finish.  If you’re finding it necessary to make your own diaper cake, you can check out the tutorial on Susie Stampsalot’s page.

I did pretty much the same thing but used yarn instead of rubber bands to hold the rolled diapers because I had no idea where our rubber bands were. Also, instead of buying a cake round I cut my own using cardboard and the circle cutter we have for drywall.  Yeah, I had to add a “man tool” aspect to this project..hahaha

So yeah, there’s my first ever diaper cake.  Diaper-licious!

Posted by Carrie on Thursday, June 3, 2010
Categories: blog, crafts · 2 Comments »