My Card Box...

Okay, I am so glad that I can finally check this one off my "things to do list" for my baby's 1st birthday party. When I first saw Sonya's cake that she created for Craft Project Central, it gave me an idea... why not make one with Hello Kitty? Although Sonya's cake is created with styrofoam, I created my cake so that I could use it as the card box for my baby's party.

To make this cake, I trace the tops of 2 different sizes of my tupperware bowls onto cardboard. I cut out the sides of the cake from cardboard too and attached them together with clear packing tape. I also cut a slit in the back of the bottom layer for the cards to go in. I then wrapped it with wrapping paper and used my hot glue gun to glue the 2 layers together. The very bottom of the cake is just a piece of cardboard that I covered with foil. When the cake was formed, it was time to finally decorate it. Each day I added new elements to it. I used flowers that I created with my Stampin' Up! dies and also some flowers, beads, & ribbons that I purchased from a local store. I hope you like it! This by far is definitely the biggest craft project I've worked on. It was fun, but a bit time consuming. Maybe in my next life I should be a cake decorator...