Woodland Diaper Cake

Another diaper cake, but for a welcome change of pace it wasn't a variation on gray like a number of the last few seemed to have been. This one was for RJ's cousin and his wife and they had picked out an adorable woodland theme for their nursery. So I was excited to be working with nature and greenery again.

So much so, I probably went a bit overboard on the green. I mean, I know I went overboard on the green. But anyways... I started with an adorable teething fox from the registry for the topper and decided on another 4-tier cake.

Wanting to work with woodsy materials and natural fibers, I then got some dark green mesh ribbon and ribbon that looked like brown canvas with green edging and a strip of green and white polka dots along the middle. I couldn't decide between the two, so I went with both, alternating the two ribbons among the 4 layers.

I knew I had some small pine cones left over from some other project, as well as some moss and twigs. So for some contrast and to go with the red fox, I picked up a couple of good-sized, red-tipped succulent picks and some red berries. I also found some clusters of super tiny white blossoms that I thought would add some interesting texture.

I rounded out the greenery with some ivy and wispy vines that I had laying around and tried really, really hard not to go crazy messy and cover the entire cake with plants. In fact, because I was using so many different kinds of materials, I tried to keep the layers a bit more balanced and neater than I normally would.

I think it came out pretty balanced, but like I said, it is A LOT of green. The couple had an outdoor baby shower at their sister-in-law's farm-like property (complete with a small barn converted into a skateboard park), so the cake fit right in. In fact, it was given it's very own table to be displayed from and pointed out to every guest that was walked by it.

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