Wedding Towel Cake

Bridal Shower is tomorrow for my future daughter-in-law.  I purchased towels on her bridal registry and decided it would be more interesting and fun to give them in the form of a wedding cake.

Ingredients:

• Towels:  2 bath, 1 hand, 1 finger tip purchased at Bed, Bath & Beyond
• Cricut Cartridge:  Accent Essentials, Plantin SchoolBook, Storybook, Sweethearts
• Punch:  Heart punch from Martha Stewart
• Other:  Glimmer Mist "Iridescent Gold", Glimmer Mist "Lemon Zest", Glimmer Mist "Peach Delight", white tulle, gems, Stickles, corsage pins from Michaels, Popsicle Sticks from Michaels, green paint, hot glue.

Towel Cake

Towel Cake Recipe:

• Bottom Layer:  Roll finger towel and 1 bath towel together.  Wrap the hand towel around and secure in back with corsage pins.
• Top Layer:  Roll 1 bath towel.  Secure in back with corsage pins.
• * Bath Towels are folder length-wise into fourths.
• Tie white tulle around both layers.
• Bells on bottom layer:  cut image and shadow at 2" from Cricut Sweethearts cartridge; [Bells] found on page 56 of the folder.  Gem glued to center of bow image.  Tie onto tulle with white twine.
• Flowers = cut 20 each (all from white card stock):  one set at 2", one set at 1 3/4", one set at 1 1/2" - from Cricut Accent Essentials cartridge; [Accent24-s] found on page 54 of the folder.  Spray half of 2" and 1 3/4" flower cuts with Glimmer Mist "Iridescent Gold."  Spray other half or 2" and 1 3/4" flower cuts with Glimmer Mist "Lemon Zest."  Set aside to dry.  Spray all of the 1 1/2" flower cuts with Glimmer Mist "Peach Delight."  Set aside to dry.  Once dry, the flowers will be colored as white shimmer, yellow shimmer and peach shimmer.
• Flower Stems = paint round popsicle sticks with green paint and set aside to dry.
• Flower Leaves = cut at 10 (from green card stock):  one set at 1 3/4", one set at 1 1/2" = from Cricut Accent Essentials cartridge; [Accent41-s] found on page 72 of the folder.
• Flower Assembly = bend each flower petal in the center.  Glue together one each: 2" in white, 1 3/4" in yellow, 1 1/2" in peach. Other flowers will be assembled as:  2" in yells, 1 3/4" in white, 1 1/2" in peach.  Glue gem to center of each flower.  Glue one leaf to back.   Attach to green popsicle stick using hot glue.  I chose to make some flowers without the 2" flower layer.

• Poke the flower sticks around the bottom cake layer. 
• Top flowers are attached with foam tape.
• Car at top = cut image and two shadows at 3 3/4" from Cricut Sweethearts cartridge; [CarCuple] found on page 65 of the folder.  After assembled, hot glue a green popsicle stick to the back of the car's shadow.  Attach the second shadow to the back using foam tape around the popsicle stick.
• Date on back of car = cut at 1/2" from Cricut Plantin SchoolBook.

Cake Board

Cake Board:

• Flowers = cut seven flowers from white card stock at 1 1/2".  Spray with Glimmer Mist "Peach Delight."  Once dried, glue around edge of cake board.  Add a gem to the center.
• Names "Jessica & Dave" = cut letters and shadows at 2" from Cricut Storybook cartridge.  Glue around edge of cake board.  Punch two small hearts and glue on either side of the "&" symbol.  Add stickles to "&" symbol.
• Heart & Couple Silhouette = cut image and shadow at 5" from Cricut Sweethearts cartridge; [HeartCpl-s] found on page 40 of the folder.  
• Text "I Do . . . " cut at 1" from Cricut Sweethearts cartridge; [Ido-s] found on page 60 of the folder.