My Labor of Love

Last Wednesday, Maren posted a challenge on the Unity forum to be inspired by pictures of cake she found on Flickr.  I was inspired by the whole "theme"of bright, fun cakes.  And then I noticed that you could make a 3D project for the challenge and my brain went into overdrive.  

I found a template (on SCS) for making little pieces of cake from paper.  There are 33 pieces in this cake.  Each piece will go to one of Brady's 2nd birthday party guests.  (I HAD to rationalize spending ALL this time and supplies making a 3 layer cake somehow.)  So, instead of making some frilly girlie cake, I decided to make a jungle cake for my lion and monkey loving son.    

This cake features the animals from Unity's Wild and Crazy Bunch.  The "leaves" are actually trees from Unity's Giggle Grove and Unity's Tiny Trinity.  I cut out each animal in two different colors.  The leaves are also done in two different colors.  I added Prima flowers with dew drop center.  The cake is held together by some green polka dot ribbon that I got at Michael's.  The cake topper is a photo cube highlighting adorableness from Brady's 2nd  year of life.  I used some stickers to write out the birthday greeting for him.  And that's it.  :)  It took about 16 hours after all the IMMENSE amount of cutting.

Wish me luck!  The winner of the contest will be announced on Wednesday and then later people will vote on a grand prize winner.  :)

Here are some more pictures: