While I finish up my coffee and before educating the kids today, I thought I'd share a fun little DIY cake topper that I made. This past Saturday all 7 of us and an Auntie loaded up in our Suburban and headed to Houston to give my Grandfather one heck of a surprise party. About a week ago he turned 90! What a milestone birthday that is. Food was pretty much covered with everyone bringing sides and appetizers so being the crafty one in the family I asked if I could bring a special cake topper for the hummingbird cake my mom was baking. (I'll have to get the recipe to share sometime, it was amazing- I now weigh 400 lbs and don't even care!)
I started searching pinterest and found a couple of ideas but nothing that really spoke to me. So then I started browsing Martha Stewart's website and inspiration struck!
So between this:
and this:
I CAME UP WITH THIS:
card stock, die cut machine, photos and bamboo skewers hot glued on the back |
I loved the idea of the pictures, thinking I could use some old childhood pictures of him but I also loved the pinwheels all at multiply heights- so why not do a little combo?
Happy 90th Grandaddy!
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and made some fun memories!
Your cake turned out SOOOOO beautiful!! Great job!! That picture of your Grandpa is precious, makes me miss mine. You are blessed that yours is driving distance away. :)
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