Cupcake Doll Box by Beau Rabbit

I think birthday season is here.  Just as I put away the last of the Christmas wrappings, I had to  replenish my stock of pinks and polka-dots.  The little doll box, above, is a gift I made for little friend who just turned 10 years old.  It is a paper mache box that has been decoupaged with aqua and dots paper and bright yellow gingham.  The little cupcake doll on top is made from clothespins and acrylics and she has a fabric daisy in her hair.  Paper flowers cover the lid and then the entire thing was rolled in glitter.  The box ope ns up and this particular one holds earrings as a surprise.  This is available in my Etsy shop in an assortment of colors.

A cake box full of….CAKE

These are birthday cupcakes that went out to a grown up friend.  I would tell you how old she was, but you wouldn’t believe me anyway! They are vanilla cake with butter cream and a heavy sprinkling of pink sugar.  I cut out little flags from scrapbook paper and glued them to sticks.  Scraps of ribbon finish it off.  The felt circles with buttons are an idea that I saw somewhere else…but I can’t remember where.  I will update when I run across the link again!  If that was your tutorial, let me know so I can update here!

And this is the top of the cake box lid.  I love these two little girls playing dress up.  The image is from an antique book of French Nursery rhymes and you may have seen it on some of my other projects-It’s one I keep coming back to!