A
couple weeks ago was my sister-in-law's niece's first birthday (it took
me a while to figure out a succinct relationship rather than calling
her my sister's wife's sister's daughter). First birthday luaus are a
big tradition in Hawaii and people tend to go all out for them. This one
was no exception. Lots of people and some really awesome Hawaiian
food.
My
sister-in-law's sister asked me to help her out with some decorations.
The theme was cupcakes and she asked me to make a cupcake shaped box for
people to put cards in.
She
also asked for help with something for entertaining the kids at the
party and asked if I could make one of those funny picture things where
they have holes in the faces and you put your face in the hole and take a
picture. There's got to be a better name than that. Anyone know? Does
anyone even understand what I'm talking about?
Anyway...here's the cupcake I made for the cards:
The
base is a plastic planter pot from Walmart. I made the top out of paper
mâché. I used a beach ball as the form - worked really well and I can
still reuse the beach ball!
The final layer of paper mâché was done with white printer paper and then I did a tissue paper decoupage over that.
The sprinkles are felt.
For
the face-hole-picture thing (there has to be a better name!) I took
inspiration from an inflatable monkey deco that they were using for the
party (since I couldn't really put faces on cupcakes):
It
took a while to figure out how to make it, but I ended up with what I
call the "pop-up card" design. Two large foamcore boards at an angle in
back and a small one board in front.
The two boards in back kind of supported each other - it also helped that the kind of curved when we painted them.
Since the Mia portion is a separate piece the background can be used again for other events.
