Someone asked me to make her a special diaper cake. It was her friend's first child (friend was a male friend already knowing the new bundle of joy soon to be entering his world would be his "LITTLE PRINCESS") Once I heard that word "PRINCESS" I knew exactly where to go with this diaper cake. (darn light bulbs) So off I go to buy bulk diapers, rolled like a mad woman, and sketched out my plan on paper that night.
Next day, made the two tiers binding each with ribbon. I then cut out card board circles one to secure the top, one in the middle of the two tiers, and two for the base...(why two = it gives me a lip to create a artist frame that gives the cake just a little special touch) I feed two pieces of string (longer than the cake) through the tiers over the top and back down to the bottom where I secure it. This is trying but there is a SECRET. Prior to threading the string through the cardboard and diapers, light a candle and wax the ends of the string. Straighten and allow it to dry... it will harden and will be easy to thread through. (wink wink)
Any whoo, I went on a "PINK" shopping spree and I mean PINK. WOW talk about a lot of things that are PINK! The only thing is I found a pink teddy bear but wasn't what I had in mind (re-word... wasn't what I had drawn in my head, so I knew I had to do a few changes to it) Next was to see what was available at the dollar store. At the dollar store I found a tiara, wand, and a nylon butterfly (why a butterfly just wait you will see)
TIME TO CREATE! YEAH!
I started with covering the bottom tier with the PINK plush blanket. Everyone knows that "PRINCESSES or in my plans "FAIRY PRINCESSES" wear tiaras therefore I attached a foamie tiara I found at the local craft store, attached it to the base (using the lip of the two circle to glue it on with a hot glue gun) Now it looked like the fairy princess diaper cake was wearing a tiara.
(LAUGHING) now it was to do some surgery. I took the butterfly I bought at the dollar store and "dissected" the wings from the body of the butterfly. Poor butterfly. The teddy bear has a battery pack in the back. I exposed enough of it that I was able to apply a piece of Velcro to the battery pack and Velcro between the two butterfly wings and attached them together... Then I took a little more Velcro, attached it to the back of the tiara (front and back) and attached it to the top of the head of the teddy near... VOILA "Fairy Princess teddy bear" YES in PINK TOO) I took string and attached it to the top of the cake stringing in between the string used for securing the diapers together.
With three wash cloths (2 pink, 1 white) I rolled the white one first (folded 4x), secured it with elastics, and rolled it within the two pink folded wash cloths (folded 4x) while holding it I took an infant spoon, held it behind the washcloths and secured it with approx 4 - 6 small elastics. then I used PINK transparent paper wrap it securing it with ribbon... lollypop.
I used "PRINCESS" ribbon around the second tier and a different type of "princess" ribbon to secure items to the previous tier using glue gun glue between the two ribbons to secure.
Need: PINK scratch mitts, PINK booties, Pink burp pad (teddy bear sitting on it) , folded hooded towel (Pink), Pink Onesie supporting the teddy bear (it's heavy with the tiara, and wings on it) I found fairy princess bib, and princess socks. Look very closely... I even put princess hair elastics on the bears ears. (attention to detail I say)
I am all for giving mom-to-be something too baby can't get all the attention. So I made up a chocolate wrapper to cover a chocolate bar. (thank God for computers) On the cover I made sure to put a "fairy princess on it" on the back.
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