I made this cake for our family reunion last year. Let me start off by sayin the whole top part of the tree was a huge dissapointment for me. I wanted it to look full and green like a live tree, but instead it ended up looking like a dead tree :( but lesson learned. The pictures were printed on edible image paper and attached to candy plaques that I made. The tree is rice crispy treats covered with fondant. The branches were wire covered in fondant. The leaves were gumpaste. There are paper tags hanging in the tree from thin ribbon. These paper tags have names of each person in the family. It was fun to watch everyone go up to the cake and find their name and talk about the pictures.