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April Showers Baby Shower
By Jeanne Benedict,
Celebrations Expert
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Baby Shower Tips & Party Ideas:
- Mama & Papa: A Coed Baby Shower
- Yellow Ducks Themed Baby Shower
- 5 Baby Shower Punch Recipes
- Stylish Baby Shower Invitations
I absolutely love this umbrella invitation designed by Papier Girl on Flickr. Its attention to detail is surely to be admired, as Papier Girl is an expert crafter.
For your April Showers Bridal Shower, you could replicate her design elements or visit her Etsy website and order her invites. Here's my take on a simplified version for DIY shower hosts.
Steps:
- Purchase paper specific to your bridal shower colors: Choose a solid color cardstock for the card base, a white embossed paper as a background for the umbrellas, and a complementary color for the actual umbrellas. Also, pick up some envelopes for your invites.
- When purchasing your paper, consider buying accents such as rhinestone stickers and ribbon that fit the invitation style.
- Make a basic folded card using the cardstock that will fit inside the envelopes you have purchased.
- Measure the front face of the folded card and cut out a shape (rectangular or square) that is a bit smaller than the face using the embossed white paper. Use double-stick tape to adhere the white paper to the front of the card.
- Cut out an umbrella shape from the patterned-paper and use double-stick tape to attach it on to the embossed white paper. (Papier Girl made her card in a landscape format but you could make your card in a portrait format if you like.)
- Make a party information sheet with the bridal shower title, time, date, etc... on a piece of paper to tape inside the card.
- Add rhinestone stickers or embellishments, as Papier Girl did with the blue-check ribbon and the rhinestone daisies, to jazz up your card.
- Send it to guests 4 to 6 weeks in advance of the shower date.
Spring Baby Shower Favors:
- Personalized Baby Shower Candy Bags
- Mini Bee Hive Honey Pots
- Nesting Bird Seed Favors
- Baby Chicks Salt & Pepper Shakers
Umbrellas have become a popular event prop for all occasions. Embellish umbrellas with flowers to add a charming touch your baby shower decor.
Gigi Minor created this floral-rimmed umbrella for her niece who loves to play under it with her Barbies. (I don't know about you, but many grown-up girls, like myself, still love playing Barbies with their kids!)
I thought the style was so simple and pretty that Gigi's umbrella would be great as bridal shower decor.
Steps:
- Purchase umbrellas in the color and style that fit your bridal shower theme.
- Using hot glue, adhere silk roses to the rims of the umbrellas.
- Decorate the party with the embellished umbrellas by opening the umbrellas and hanging them above the party space or from tree branches if available for an outdoor event.
- For centerpieces, insert smaller umbrellas into floral arrangements and place them on party tables or guests' tables.
This cake design and photo is courtesy of Make Fabulous Cakes, where you'll find detailed instructions on making this entire cake. Here's a simplified version for DIY hosts to make the only umbrella cake of this display.
Steps:
- Bake a large round cake that you will cut in half to be the umbrella. (I suggest at least a 14" diameter cake.)
- Cut the cake in half and place one half on a cake board. Spread filling on top of the half on the cake board and place the other cake half on top. Refrigerate the layered cake until ready to frost.
- You can ice the cake with canned frosting or homemade butter-cream, or cover the cake with fondant; whatever's easiest for you.
- Cut a PVC tube or wood dowel to a length that's in scale with your cake to be an umbrella handle.
- Roll out prepared white fondant and wrap the umbrella handle in the fondant. Insert the handle into the side of the cake (see photo).
- Fashion a hook for the bottom part of the handle by molding fondant and attach it to the handle.
- Cut out white flowers from the fondant to embellish the umbrella or purchase hard sugar flowers to decorate it.
- Write a congratulatory phrase on the cake using decorator's icing, and fill in the umbrella details to give it authenticity and style.
These cute cupcakes were designed by Lisa Garcia De Quevedo of Lisa Cupcakes. Here's my take on her creation!
Steps:
- Bake and ice cupcakes.
- Cut out umbrella tops using white cardstock and cut out umbrella handles using silver cardstock. Attach silver handles to white umbrella base using a skinny piece of double-stick tape.
- Lisa used 3 colors of cardstock to create the triangular sections on her umbrella. You could simply cut out 1 color of cardstock a bit smaller than the white base and use double-stick tape to attach them.
- Use jeweled stickers to embellish the umbrella and finish of the handle with a ribbon tied in a bow.
Kellie of Kellie's Kandies & Cookies made these adorable treats for baby and bridal showers. These cookies are prepared with serious skill, but a simpler version could be created with a bit less detail.
Steps:
- Bake sugar cookies in the shape of umbrellas. Use an umbrella-shaped cookie cutter if you can find one. Or create a cardboard umbrella shape to use as a pattern: place it on the cookie dough and trace around using a knife to make the cookies.
- Make a sheer icing using 1 cup of powdered sugar and 2 - 4 tablespoons of milk tinted with pink food coloring. Or tint the icing in the color of your baby shower.
- Ice cookies and allow to set.
- Use complementary colors of decorator's icing to create the details and decor on the umbrella.
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