Personalizing a gift would be a much appreciated thing that you could do to a person. Like most baby showers, making baby shower cakes are one of the most beautiful and practical way of looking into the future of new couples on which they would need rather than those usual clothes and feeding bottles.
Most couples would want a boy in their family to secure the family name of the father. If you are invited to a baby shower and gender has already been known as male, here are some tips to personalize your diaper cakes for boys. You can combine colors for diaper cakes for boys like your baby feet pitter patter blue and brown. This is the most classic combination of colors for your cake and is always a hit along with baby items colored in baby blue. Another combination would be modern baby blue polka dots. To have a much modern feel on your cake, a blue and black combination is always the best. Adding extra feature to this combination of colors are baby boy items that has a sharper color contrast.
Aside from colors, you could always look for a theme or a theme that matches the baby shower. There are certain themes commonly used in most diaper cakes, these are: Teddy bear boy, sports theme, and farm theme. A teddy bear boy gives an impression that the baby needs soft and snugly toys. Your sports theme on the other hand refers to added touches with the parents’ favorite sports such as logo of their favorite basketball team on baby items that you could actually find in the market. Lastly, your farm theme would include you to purchase toys that resemble animals found in a farm especially the animals included in the nursery song of “Old McDonald Has a Farm.
Although baby showers’ main topic is on the baby, it is also important to think also with the mother. Personalize your baby shower cakes with the mothers name on it or other messages that you would want to add with your diaper-made-cake. You must remember that a baby cannot be made if there is no mother to bear him or her in her womb.
Originally posted 2011-05-03 01:26:41.