After I posted on my first attempt at a diaper cake last November, some of you shared pictures of your own diaper cake creations inspired by that post – and they are impressive! I couldn’t resist sharing a couple of them in a follow-up post today… starting with this ridiculously adorable monkey-themed diaper cake created by Noel Culbertson for the equally adorable monkey themed baby shower she hosted.

Noel used DwellStudio for Target receiving blankets to wrap each tier then added some ribbon & paper flowers (available at craft & scrapbook stores) to dress them up. The top layer of the diaper cake is another receiving blanket, rolled and wrapped with banana patterned paper and adorned with a paper monkey “cake topper”, which was glued to a popsicle stick. (Martha Stewart’s “Monkey Party Kit” was used for the topper.)

This next diaper cake – a fun, girlie pink & brown design (which also features DwellStudio for Target blankets) – was created by hostess Davina Saunders:

Here are some tips from Davina on how to recreate this design:

Materials used:

• Set of 3 DwellStudio receiving blanket from target
• Size 2 Pamper swaddlers
• chocolate brown grossgrain ribbon
• Pink shabby rose trim (sold by the yard at Hobby Lobby)
• chocolate brown ric rac
• Pink & Brown scrapbook papers – used to create the “vase” at the top of the cake and then cut into 1.5″ circles
• for the “candles”
• Scrapbook embelishments
• Faux flowers – from Michaels

To make the “candles” – I glued scrapbook paper circles together – with a lollipop stick sandwiched in between.  The name was spelled out with stick-on letters from the scrapbook section of Hobby Lobby.

{View more pics of this diaper cake here.}

Thanks to Noel & Davina for the fabulous inspiration! If anyone else has tips or ideas to add, please share them here!