Spa Towel Cake -Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Project

Hi everyone, I'm excited to share another 3D project with you all, remember each Monday begins with a new challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, and this weeks challenge...

"Wedding Days"

make a card or project for a wedding

remember to include a cricut cut image somewhere on your project 

I made this spa towel cake a few months ago for a friends bridal shower but had not posted it yet, so today is a great day to show it off.

I love the hint of cream and blue flowers added around the twill. The flowers are from the Mother's Day Bouquet Cricut Cartridge.

I wrapped a few bath towels around each other, then tied with fun crinkle, added spa items around the bottom of the cake (glue dots were attached to the bottom of the bottles, they still had to be held in place when carrying the cake so they didn't fall off), a mesh pouf sponge with a handle on the top.

Below is the photo of the back of the towel cake.  I used twill down the back to represent a brides veil

coordinating card added to photo

close up of the base of the towel cake

A simple card using the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge for the flowers with Recollections gems in the center.  I'm sorry I can't remember which font I used for the word "Congratulations", but I do remember I welded the letters together using my gypsy (before it died... yes my gypsy is dead I'm very sad about that). I inked all the edges using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink. 

inside of card

you can see my other towel cakes -HERE, and -HERE.

Thanks so much for visiting...

Remember to take a look at the inspiring projects made by the FCCB design team -HERE and share your Wedding Day projects with us.  

Towel Cake or Apple Tree

Another Towel Cake!!!

This was so fun, I call this my "Apple Tree" towel cake. I used real sticks to embellish, the apple cut I used the Cricut cartridge Home Accents.
I have some instructions for a towel cake -HERE

Bridal Shower -Towel Cake

It's that time of year when there are many baby showers and bridal showers to attend, so I like to think of creative gifts to give.
I showed my diaper cake HERE with lots of photos and directions.

Today I'll show my towel cake using a dish towel set with cooking utensils and kitchen gadgets, items that the bride will soon need.

I used two sets of kitchen towels bought from Walmart, one had a hot pad, oven mit, dish rag and 4 matching dish towels, the second set was just a tan and white towel set ($5 each).
The oven mit and hot pad are rolled up in the bottom layer to give it thickness, the dish rag is the very top layer. I used safety pins to keep the towels rolled together.

The ribbon was hot glued to itself on the back side, then I carefully added the utensils and kitchen gadgets.

For the diaper cake I had twill (netting/fabric) to wrap around the cake. I didn't have any matching twill or fabric for this cake, so I had to get creative.... this is what I did.

I cut strips of cardstock, got it wet then wadded each strip up, carefully un-wadded the strips then let them dry. When they were dry they looked like a wrinkled mess, but this is what I used around each layer of the towel cake, tucking ends into the towel and wrapping around the utensils.

The flowers are made just as I did on the diaper cake using "Walk in my Garden" Cricut cartridge, except I used two layers here instead of three, and hot glued a rope knot in the center instead of a jewel (view the diaper cake to see how I made the flowers).
I used glue dots to adhere each flower to my wadded wrinkled paper strips, I didn't need to make stems like on the diaper cake flowers.

I used cardboard for the base covered with tinfoil.