Of course, the picture doesn't do it justice. It is so much more adorable in person! AND... it smells like baby powder. I love the smell of clean diapers. I rolled up a pack of size one Pampers for the bottom tier, and a pack of size 2 for the 2 other tiers. I used little rainbow loom style elastics to hold each individual diaper, it makes it so much easier to work with! Once I am building a tier, I used a BIG elastic that can stretch around the whole tier. this way, the diapers cooperate and my swear words are kept to a minimum! I use some 12 X 12 cardstock to go around the came. I cute 2 X 12 strips of pink and glued them together. I needed 4 of them to cover the bottom. Once I am done, I glued some colorful ribbon on top of the pink cardstock. I had this ribbon from Easter a few years ago... this proves that hoarding IS useful sometimes!! LOL I just added one tier on top of the other, so it's actually not secured. I added a balloon stick in the middle with a pink balloon attached to it. The card we gave him was a little pink giraffe (I forgot to take a pic). I also had made a matching curvy keepsake pink giraffe. I put a small bib inside of it. Not many baby items fit in that box other that a bib and socks!
These items are quite fun to make for special occasions. Often, people say I should sell my stuff. The thing with items like these is that people would not necessarily pay the price that it is worth. I will take this for example. The cost of the diapers themselves was close to 36$. The material total would be close to 40$ +. If you calculate the 2.5 - 3 hours it took me to make it, say even just 15$ an hour, that would be 85$. This is why making items and selling them is not very profitable. Especially when people try to bargain... then you are left getting nothing for your time. I prefer making items, or helping people make items, and then just giving them away.
