Baby Girl Diaper Cake

Hi there! It's been a crazy week around here! I'm kind of looking forward to August being over so things settle down a bit...
I have had all the goodies to make my cousin a diaper cake for the arrival of her little girl for a little while. I heard this morning she's been having contractions so I thought it was a good day to get on this diaper cake!! It's my first one so I did a lot of browsing around to see exactly the type of cake I wanted to go for.  I found a LOT of awesome cakes that people have made!! I didn't want to go TOO overboard since I had already spent way too much money on gifts for the little princesses before I even thought to make a diaper cake... 

I used THIS diaper cake from Pinterest to guide me. It's pretty, but isn't overly complicated. 

Here's what I came up with... 

It was actually pretty fun to make! But, kind of expensive... those little goodies sure add up fast!!

Here's how I made it...
- took diapers and rolled them up, put them in groups of five and wrapped an elastic over them
- once I had six of these diaper bundles, I put a bottle of baby lotion in the middle and arranged the diaper bundles around the lotion
- then I took a receiving blanket, folded it to be the same height as the diapers, and wrapped it around the diapers
- since the receiving blanket wasn't quite long enough to go all the way around, I had an extra set of hands help me to wrap another receiving blanket (same print) around the space that was open
- using safety pins, I pinned one blanket to the other

- for the second layer, I only used bundles of 3 diapers and tied them up with rubber bands again

- I wrapped another receiving blanket around these diaper bundles and pinned it

- the top layer is just a receiving blanket rolled up and pinned

- then I added some ribbon and bows around each layer as well as some fun baby goodies! 

I am linking this up over at Pink Cricut's Link Up Tuesday post as well as the My Creative Time's Pinterest Inspired Challenge. 

That's all for today... I'm ready for a nap.... zzzzzz................... ;)