Little Pumpkin Baby Shower Part 2: Pumpkin Diaper Cake

I've had a lot of questions about this diaper cake from the shower.

It IS made completely of diapers (and rubber bands)!

Here's a quick illustrated tutorial (because of course I didn't take pictures as I was experimenting). 

Pumpkin Diaper Cake

You'll Need

Diapers (see below for details)

Rubber bands - thin larger ones are better

Orange Tulle

Brown Tulle/Fabric Scrap

Green Wired Ribbon

Step 1: Pick your diapers. I used Pampers (mom's choice) in sizes 1 and 2 (per mom's request). Really the size and pattern of diaper don't matter as they'll be covered with tulle for this cake. I ended up using about one box for this project (some 1s and some 2s). 

Step 2: Roll your smaller diapers. Leave them folded, and start from the open/top end. Roll toward the crease. This seems to hold the diapers in place better. If you're making a cake without tulle, it'll give you a pretty white diaper (with most brands). 

Step 3: Add a small rubberband around each diaper roll. I do about 10 of these at a time before going to the next step.

Step 4: Bundle about 5 diaper rolls together and start forming a circle for your cake.

Step 5: Add 1-2 big rubber bands around your large bundle. This can be as large/small as you'd like. There's no real exact number count it has to be. 

Step 6: Stack two bundles of approximate equal size on top of each other. Don't try to line them up like in the illustration, because you'll go crazy. Stacked is good enough.

Step 7: Add bulk to your pumpkin to make it more of a sphere instead of a cylinder. Use rubber bands to attach 1-2 rolls to the stacks. Just mess with them until they look right. That's the real secret to this project. When in doubt, add more rubber bands.

Step 8: Take your larger diapers (still folded but not rolled) and layer them around the outside of your cake, overlapping so you can't see the rolled diapers. Tuck the bottoms under the cake and use rubber bands to secure. You may need one rubber band toward the top and one toward the bottom.

Step 9: Do the same to the top so you have a pumpkin-shape. If it still looks like a cylinder, add more rolls under the flat diapers or flat diapers in the middle area.

Step 10: Wrap the diapers in tulle. I found that wrapping North and South worked best. This takes a LOT of tulle to get an opaque look-just fyi.

Step 11: Add a stem to the pumpkin and tie green wired ribbon around the top for the vine. I used one diaper roll covered in brown tulle. I just worked it down into the top of the pumpkin.

Ta-da! Sorry for the illustrations instead of actual photos. 

Cute as a Pumpkin!

Just a quick stop in to share the CUTEST diaper cake! I may be a little biased, but this one is just too sweet!

Update! I added a tutorial here. 


Yup! It's totally made of diapers (even the stem)! It's wrapped in orange and sparkle brown tulle for a pumpkin-y finish. I was surprised how easy this was to make. Just roll diapers like a regular cake and use flat diapers on the outside to shape. Add some tulle and curly ribbon for a vine. Ta-da!

Spring Bunny Baby Shower Part 3: Diaper Cake

So, I feel like I do the same thing for every baby shower, but diaper cakes are stinkin' cute! You can see my first official attempt at making one here.

For this cute spring bunny shower, the color scheme was pink, grey, and white (to make sure our decor matched Baby's room). My co-workers and I made this diaper cake in about 45 minutes from start to finish (not including the sock-flowers that were made by another co-worker).

We started with a 14", 10", and 6" cake round. We used Size 1 and Size 2 diapers and a ton of rubber bands. There's tons of tutorials out there, so I won't bore you with the details.

Tips for a Cute Diaper Cake

• Use labeled diapers (like swaddlers) or mark your diapers with different colors of rubber bands (e.g., reds=size 1, blue=size 2). This takes the headache out of Mom's task of unrolling.
• Carefully roll your diapers. I've found that rolling from the open end to the closed end results in a more uniform roll. 
• When forming your cake, make sure the "seam" of the rolled diaper is on the inside. This makes for a much more uniform cake.
• Lots and lots of rubber bands to hold groups of diapers together.
• Squish it until it looks right. Keep pushing on your diaper groups until they make the shape you want.
• Fill in the middle of your cakes with anything you want: extra diapers, baby gifts, tissue paper, etc.
• Use tulle by the roll to contain your diaper layers. They sell super cute sparkly, lacy, and shimmery tulle rolls at that HobLob place.
• Use paper shred as "filler" on top of each layer to hide the diaper tops. This also helps hide any cardboard from the cake rounds. Plus it's cute.
• Add cute baby stuff.

Another Diaper Cake!

Over the Christmas holidays I was blessed with spending some time with my sister-in-law and mother-in-law. We put together a diaper cake for my SIL's best friend. Her little boy Kolby is already so loved!

We went with a blue and brown polka-dot theme, and I think it turned out wonderfully! I am so fortunate to have married into such a wonderful family. We had a blast over Christmas!

Baby Gifts and Blogworld!

Ok. So, since I'm new to this whole blogging thing, I'll try to start posting more regularly. Travis is getting all geared up to take the Bar exam on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. All prayers are appreciated!

One of my friends from work is having a little girl, and last weekend we were able to get together and celebrate! I made a couple of gifts for her, but failed to get any pictures before giving them away. The shower turned out so well! Such a sweet couple.

Another co-worker of mine (who was so kind to host the shower) put together a lovely diaper cake! Between the two of us, it took about 2 hours. Not bad for our first shot!

For favors, we had baby booties filled with M&M's. They turned out so cute! I found a great tutorial online and modified it just a bit. I ended up hot gluing ribbon around the edges of the cup to match the cake/shower theme. Mom-to-be ended up taking the extras to give out at the hospital.

We had Peace O'Cake cupcakes. Delicious! Strawberry and confetti were the flavors we decided on. They were super sweet and the brightly colored icing matched our theme perfectly!