My signiture baby shower gift...

Pink and Green Diaper Cake and Ribbon Holder

This is my signature baby shower gift.

Here is another one of my signature gifts. Like I said before I am not a registry gift list kind of girl. So if one of my friends is having a baby they are going to get a diaper cake. I usually try to match it to the baby's room, or at least the baby shower colors.

The supplies needed are as follows:

1. One package of newborn, size 1 or 2 diapers

2. rubber bands (office kind not hair)

3. paper towel roll (the cardboard roll inside)

4. One piece of cardboard cut into a circle.

(I use the cardboard from a frozen pizza. What? I can use all the help I can get.)

5. Ribbon

6. Any other decorative touches
(the possibilities are endless)

7. Cake Topper

(I have used many different things from pacifiers to toy tractors in this one I used travel size baby products)

8. Hot glue gun (a girl's best friend)

Okay so here is the tricky part, getting started. This is not an exact science I just start grabbing diapers and start forming them into a circle, one hint though, if you wrap the rubber band around the diapers and use that to help you. The first layer takes a little more than half a package of diapers.

Once you get the first layer done I push the paper towel roll into the center to use as support.

Now make two more layers one medium and one small one and stack them together.

Once you are finished building, now comes the fun part, decorating.

You just cut the ribbon to size and hot glue the two ends making sure to line up them

seems for each layer.

Hint: use a clip of some sort to hold the ribbon while you hot glue, otherwise you will get hot glue on your fingers. I speak from experience

The rest of the decorating is up to you I have made many, many diaper cakes and each of them have been very different.

Now for the Initial Bow Holder.

Supplies needed are as follows:

1. Wooden initial letter

(these can be found in the craft section at most stores)

2. 12-18 inches of ribbon

two different sizes

one thick, one thin.

3. craft paint

4. hot glue gun

Really the instructions are simple.

Paint the wooden letter and let it dry.

Cut the ribbon to the length

Hot glue the ribbon to the back of the letter

(this can be tricky depending on the letter K for example is hard to conceal the ribbon on the back.

I put a couple drops hot glue every 3-4 inches down the ribbon to keep it

lined up.

Well that's pretty much it, I love to put these together and friends have started to ask me to make them for their own baby shower gifts.

(Just for the record I love to make little girl cakes because it's the only

chance I get to decorate anything pink having three boys and all)