Wedding Shower Cupcakes

My husband is one of those people that EVERYONE knows.  Because he is so personable, we are invited to a lot of weddings and showers -- I am always looking for a fun, creative idea to give as wedding and shower gifts.

What a fun idea--right?  I saw something similar for babies {that I'll post at a later day} but really needed something cute for two {2} different wedding showers we had one weekend.

I thought 'what could I wrap up instead of diapers, socks and onsies?' and I decided no body can have too many dish cloths, dish towels or place mats (well, maybe someone can, but I sure can't!)

This is SUPER easy {shhh, don't tell--they'll think you went to a LOT of trouble!}   For the plate pictured, I used

4 dish cloths
4 dish towels
2 place mats
glass serving tray
faux cherries
coordinating ribbon
coffee filters that look like cupcake papers
elastics
scrapbook paper for the bottom
sticky dot's

First I etched the glass tray.  Click here for a tutorial.

Then, I folded a wash cloth FIRST in half, then in THIRDS:

Then, I started rolling.  After I rolled the inside dish cloth, I folded a dish towel about the same height and wrapped it around the first dish cloth:

Then, I wrapped it with an elastic and shoved my finger into the middle to give it dimension:

Tie a ribbon around the elastic, put it inside coffee filter and set in glass tray.  I then took some fake cherries (or you could use another fruit) and "sticky dot" -ed them to the 'cupcakes' on the tray.    I alternated colors and used matching place mats for one layer on two different cupcakes.

We also made individual cupcakes and put them in a plastic clam shell to give as shower favors to the winners of our games:

Easy, fun, simple, cheap, and everyone thinks you're fabulous!  My kind of craft!!

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