If you have a young one in your family, odds are you have visited Build a Bear for them to make a furry new friend.  But here’s a great reason to go back and get something for yourself! 

This new “I Heart Cupcakes Confetti Cupcake Bear” is shown with all these optional accessories for $45 but you can buy just the bear for $20.  They have several other cupcake birthday animals and this adorable animal carrier.  I wonder if I might get strange glances walking around the mall wearing this cupcake carrier with a cupcake bear in it? 

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Hol-Berry Cupcakes from Hatfield, PA offers this simply elegant combination of cupcakes around the classic circus theme. Each creation hearkens back to simpler times of a child when colors were bright and shapes were straightforward. Even the background to the cupcake images were chosen to accent the circus feeling with retro party patterns.

Fantastic set of circus cupcakes for any lucky young birthday boy or girl!

Check out ATC sponsor Piktorama’s fun, new iPhone cases below.  Piktorama is a company that specializes in lots of fun graphics–everything from buttons to posters to iPhone cases like these.  They even have lots of cupcake art that is worth checking out.  Be sure to also take a look at some of the work that Piktorama’s owner, Amaranta Martinez, did for MTV and Nickelodeon.

I love this DIY Birthday Wreath made out of cupcake liners and paper plate flowers!  It’s such a fun idea and the perfect way to show how old the birthday child is turning on his or her special day.  The instructions make this project sound easy and all you need in addition to the liners and plates is cardboard and a hot glue gun.

Sorry, this might be inappropriate, but somehow I just had to share it with ATC readers. Don’t blame me — blame For the Love of Cake of Toronto for this clever and hilarious decorating idea.

Baked by Melissa, a New York City bakery specializing in a line of mini-cupcakes, has a fun, new feature on their website where you can create your own edible cupcake art.  Begin by choosing the number of mini-cupcakes you want (anywhere from 100- 2,500, arranged in a rectangle).  Then select from 18 different cupcake flavors (s’mores, cookies and cream, peanut butter and jelly, red vanilla and pink vanilla are some of the options) to create your own colorful design.  Read the rest of this entry »

Cupcake Invitations

Are you planning your child’s next birthday party and feeling like you’re running out of creative party ideas?  Why not follow the cupcake trend and throw a cupcake-themed celebration?  Cupcakes are a staple at birthday parties these days, and you can extend the cupcake-theme to the invitations, decorations, and games, too! Read the rest of this entry »