So one of my boss' had a baby and we gave her a Surprise Baby Shower before she left. I work with a very talented and nice group of collegues and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. The theme was baby jungle animals. This is my first diaper cake. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. There are some great tutorials on YouTube. I wanted to cake to sit higher than what the basic directions called for so I sat the base on my own glass cake stand and I put a Wilton Cake Tier in the second layer of diapers and sat the Monkey and last tier of diapers on that. It came out perfect. I also made a second single layer cake with the remaining diapers, covered it with the other blanket that came in the package and put a smaller monkey on top. The big monkey mouth is in the shape of an "0" so it looked like he was drinking from the bottle. It was so adorable. I will come back later and link to some of the YouTube vidoes that would be helpful if you wanted to make a diaper cake.
Here's the matching card. I now prefer using googly eyes or rubber stamps for faces. Sometimes it's a lot easier than trying to make those tiny, tiny cuts fit and for me, I still can't get those tiny cuts to cut neatly.
This is another card I found on YouTube by Yoliebean. The card size and cut is fabulous. It actually opens twice - the first time the blue sky opens to reveal a vellum baby quote and then the green grass sections opens to reveal a regular card. I left this part blank since there were a lot of people that needed to sign the card. You really gotta watch her video to get the full effect.
Girl this is sooooo cute.
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