Baby's 1st Birthday Prep: DIY Cake & Cupcake Stands

As you may have seen, I recently posted about the teired tray I made for Fosters upcoming first birthday.  We have until October, but I'm taking my time getting it all done and put together!

In addition to the tiered tray, I decided to make a small cake stand to put his little personal cake on (for the cake smash photos) and some little cupcake stands as well.

As before, I raided the thrift stores for items to build the stands.  Dollar stores work too!

Crusty huh?  They were dirt cheap.  Stove burner element covers.  I washed them up and ended up using the two smaller covers.  I also found a terracotta pot hanging around my house that I decided to use as the base for this cake stand.

Using E6000 again as the adhesive, I glued the two small burner covers together so it would be stronger.  It needed a little more height, so I added a mason jar lid in between the burner covers and the pot.  Glued... set.

Puffy paint to the rescue!!  I felt the cake stand was going to be a bit 'flat', so I decided to use some puffy paint to give some dimension by adding 'dots' around the top and bottom.  I'm sorry, I neglected to get a photo at this stage!  (bad blogger)

Using Krylon's Banner Red spray paint in gloss finish, this is what we get!  This cost me all of about $3.00 to make.  I loooove the red!  It's the perfect shade.  I used the same method for the cupcake stands....

Except these little lovelys got a coat of Krylon's Sun Yellow in gloss finish.  The top of the cupcake stands are old coasters and the bases are a little tiny sauce dish and a little candle stick.  I think they turned out sweet!

Have I mentioned how much I love spray paint!!?