Oh Baby Diaper Cake!

For those who don't know, a diaper cake is made by taking diapers, washcloths and other baby stuff and making it into a cake, mainly for using as a centerpiece at a baby shower.  Since Oh Baby: The Pregnancy Card Game is so colorful, it made a great addition to the concept!

To make the cake, I started with these ingredients:

1. Cloth diapers from Babies R Us (2 12 packs)
2. Washcloths from Babies R Us (pre-rolled, made it very easy!)
3. Silver charger plate from Party City
4. Tealights from Party City
5. Ribbon from Party City
6. Oh Baby: The Pregnancy Card Game from Get Well Games

I also used tape, scissors and a plastic container from Chinese takeout wonton soup.

First, I put the plastic container on the charger plate

Then, I rolled up 11 of  the diapers in a longish roll, folding in half twice, then folding lengthwise one more time before rolling.

Then I used scotch tape to hold it together

Making sure the neat side is facing out!

Then I put the 11 diaper rolls around the plastic container, securing it with ribbon first, then with a rubber band.

I covered the rubber band up with another ribbon

Then I rolled up the remaining diapers, but made them smaller, folding into thirds on final step before rolling

I put these around the outside of the cake, again securing with ribbon to hold them in place so I could get a rubber band around them.

Notice the top tier is on too.  For this, I just took the washclothes out of the mesh, removed the labels and stuck them back in to place on top.  The mesh added a nice gauziness to it.

Next, I added the Oh Baby cards by inserting the bottom corner into the rubber band.

I put cards all around the bottom layer

Then I added some cards to the top layers by sticking them in space between layers

I covered up the rubber band with some pink ribbon (taped in the back)

Finally, I added a few more cards and some tealights and the cake was done!

It looked amazing, but especially good with the lights off

For a boy cake, just change out top tier with boy wascloths and use blue ribbon

That's it!  The other side of the Oh Baby cards are beautiful too, you could definitely experiment with some different card combinations!  If you make a cake of your own, share it in the comments!