I made this cupcake tower using cardboard circles, cardboard containers from the dollar store that were silver, and some blue ribbon, oh and the tops of the circles were covered using scrapbooking paper, blue and white with glittered dots, the cupcake idea came from "Taste of Home" magazine that my customer provided, but the tower in the mag. was shorter and squattier and they wanted it taller and skinnier looking like a tiered cake, but the basic idea for all the cupcakes and such is just like the mag.TFL