First Diaper Cake

We are throwing a baby shower for a colleague. She is having a boy and this is her first child. We wanted to make this shower very special for her. She deserves it, she has helped with lots of other work showers over the years. 

 I decided to try my hand at a diaper cake! I am very happy with the result! 

I started with a pack of Size 1 Pampers Swaddlers (the best diaper in my opinion for newborns). I used Goody clear hair bands to hold the rolled diaper in the tube shape. At one of my baby showers someone used tape and that was NOT fun to deal with! So, these clear hair bands worked MUCH better. I used an old paper towel tube down the middle to keep some structure. I also used sporty headbands to hold the bottom two layers together around the paper towel roll. This was a last minute idea, I had a few new headbands for another project so they were perfect. 

Created the bottom two layers. Then folded flannel recieving blankets ($7.99 Gerber) into long rectangular pieces and wrapped those around the bottom two layers of the cake. I didn't center the blankets, but had them along the bottom of the layers. For the top layer I was stumped but finally decided to wrap one of the other recieving blankets around the rest of the paper towel tube. I had thought about tieing the 4 little hand rattles around the top layer as well. I like the blanket better. The diaper cream at the top was actually an good accident by the hubby. He was watching me do this and just stuck it in there playing around and I thought it worked. So I left it :)

I found spots for the four hand rattles (awesome deal-Garanimals $1.00 each at Wal-mart). I also strung two pacifiers in the middle section of each layer. Overall, for less than $30.00  and my first attempt, I think it looks GREAT! Check it out!

Diapers wrapped with clear bands

Best view of the head band hold each layers together

Hanging pacifiers

Garanimals $1.00 hand rattles

Diaper Cream Cake Topper

Pacifiers

Side view of cake

Finished Cake

So Cute!

Again, very happy with the final result! A little different shopping for baby boy items with my sweet princess at home. Hopefully it puts a smile on the mom's face :)

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