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Illusions by Dolla
The Wedding Cake
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Oh, gosh the cake is just how it looks, simple.
What I used for the cake are various size plastic bottle caps, flower petals, trim/cord, ribbon, doves, button or whatever else you want to embelish it with. I used hot glue, super glue gel and tacky glue.
My tops were all white, but if not you need to paint them. I would use the paint for plastic or spray paint.
Pull and cut apart petals from a silk/fabric flower. The smaller the petals the better. Start gluing those petals on the bottom tier. I glued mine on next to each other without overlapping. Then I went back and filled in the spaces with more petals. Some petals are facing up and some down.
Glue the tiers together. Tiers are glued together with hot glue. Just a little around the rim. Clean up any extra glue with a toothpick.
My second tier has embossed velvet ribbon glue around it. You could also do more petals.
The third (top) tier just has a piece of satiny ribbon around it and a round piece of white felt on the very top with more petals glued on. Put a nice size dollup of tacky glue on the very top and put the doves on. I used super glue to do the kiss. It's better done on the cake while the other glue is hardening, otherwise you'll have a time holding them in place. I had to keep repositioning the doves as that large dollup of glue dried.
Glue cord or trim and strings of beads where the tiers are glued together. Tacky glue for this (hot glue yellows). Other ideas are roses around the tiers or on top.
I didn't do this, but you could glue the cake down to a doillie, fancy cut circle of paper, felt, etc. to hide the ugly under part of the cake.
This was one of the most fun projects I've done.
Save all of those plastic bottle caps. Soft drink, juice, milk, etc. The cap I used for the bottom tier is from powdered coffee creamer. The little flip spout is concealed once you embelish it. No cap is safe anymore. Ha!
I bet you'll never look at a plastic cap the same way anymore.