Tuesday, November 24, 2009

gram's party: the 'cake'








Another element of the party that I could control (since it was not at my house) was the cake. Instead of attempting to bake a cake (as I did last year), I pressed the easy button and ordered up some wonderful cupcakes from my favorite local bakery, in a variety of chocolate, red velvet and 'blackout' flavors. I gave them red cupcake liners and sprinkles to work with, since they are a pretty bare-bones operation and don't do much embellishment.

I decided to work with a stand I had long ago purchased from Martha by Mail (R.I.P.). I wanted to figure out a way to put a 'topper' on it, since the decorative white wood piece that came with the stand wasn't going to work with the look I was going for. I found a circular chipboard box in the 'wood crafts' section of Michaels, that I used to modify the top (see detailed photos above). I then covered the box with wrapping paper and grosgrain ribbon, and adhered a '2' that I glittered in silver. I was quite happy with the results!

I finished off the stand by using grosgrain ribbon along the edges, adding flags to the cupcakes (tutorial will be included in tomorrow's post) and a wooden monkey was thrown in to tie back to the invitation.

sources:
cupcake liners and red sprinkles...layer cake shop
chipboard box, '2', glitter and ribbon...michaels

4 comments:

Sharnel said...

Love all your party creations. Grams party was too adorable.

Pam Walter said...

The cake solution was perfect! Love the whole party theme and ideas. http://blog.sweetservices.com/sweetscandyblog/

Kim - The TomKat Studio said...

Fabulous! Love the cupcake tower and all of the wonderful paper details!

pink cupcake vintage said...

i love this! so fabulous!