My husband and I made 2 cake stands and a bow loop dryer today. The bow loop dryer idea I got from JaimeAnn. I still have to figure out what color to paint the stands.

I love those stands they are beautiful!

Those cake plates are going to come in handy. They are beautiful.

I love the stand with the bun feet! What did you use for the tops of the stands? The bow loop dryer stand is great too; looks like it doesn't take up a lot of room. Thanks for sharing!

I went to Lowe's looking for something to use and I found these pre-cut wooden circles. Thanks for the nice comments.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to go look now!

Great minds think alike, as they say. I made a cake stand last week similar to the middle picture. It worked really well, of course it was only a three tier cake but I would do it all again. That is a great idea for the bow loop dryer I will definitely be doing that. Cause I have no space to dry one. Thanks for the great ideas.

What type of paint would you use to paint these? I would definitly paint 1 black. My opinion only lol

very nice work! I love it when we can make things on our own and it's half the price of those store bought stands.
I like your bow dryer so much better than mine. It's inspired me to start bugging my DH to make me this one...;0) hahaha

It cost $40 for the materials to make all 3 of these. There's no way I could have bought them for that. I had to have help drilling the holes for the feet of the stands, but I made the loop dryer by myself. It was really easy as long as you have the right tools. I borrowed these pvc pipes cutters from my FIL. It made it so much easier than when I first tried to use a saw.

I love the cake stands! So cute! You just gave me an idea. Maybe I could use wooden chopping boards Thanks!

they are lovely

I guess you can just use craft paint. The cake will not be actually touching the stand.

Nice, I like the look of the wood and would leave one natural, just varnished clear, the other probably white though I do like the black idea. Maybe you need to make more in other colors just to satisfy all of us. lol

I think Lowes and Home Depot are going to get a rush of cakers looking for circles .

They are beautiful! Great work!

Great idea for the bow loop dryer!!! I'm going to show it to my husband asap he needs another cake project.

I think I will give a try on the bow loop dryer. That is a genius creation. Thanks for the idea.

I didn't come up with the idea of the bow loop dryer, I just made one. Another CC member JaimeAnn's husband made one for her. That's where I got the idea from. It was a great idea!

i bought a bow loop dryer , similiar to yours.. from a cake friends husband.. i paid $30.00 for it.. you did a great job , making this yourself..

cute idea for the cake stands!! I'll have to give it a try!!

You said that the cake wouldn't sit right on these. What do you set them on before you put them on your stands? Cake Board? Wax paper? Doilie?..........Sorry I just don't know

oooh i'm so jealous! i love the bow loop dryer. i have been after my dh to make one every since i saw sharon's on her boxes and bows dvd. thanks for sharing!!

I will use a cake board the same size as the cake. I wouldn't want the cake to touch the paint.

You said that the cake wouldn't sit right on these. What do you set them on before you put them on your stands? Cake Board? Wax paper? Doilie?..........Sorry I just don't know

I saw Sharon Z's bow loop dryer, too! This would be so easy -no cutting wood! I haven't made bow loops outside of cake class, so what PVC diameter would anyone suggest for an average loop for the top of a cake, 8-10" round? Thanks for posting this!!!

I think that the loop dryer could double as a dryer for the reusable pastry bags too!

I've made the same type stands, just differnt feet. I painted mine with a high gloss enamel paint. I've had to touch-up the paint already, dinged by the cake knife. I use parchment between the plate and the cake.

These are great ideas! I think we are very resourceful when we need to be. The sky is really the limit with materials for cake stands. I know we have all seen the glass blocks with lights inside. I have seen pieces of glass stacked in beautiful patterns to make a stand as well. Very pretty.
I think that hardware stores are a great place to look "outside the box" for cake stuff.
You could also use even bigger PVC pipe to make a "half moon" shaped dryer rack for thinks like curved leaves or other flower petals. You could make a similar vertical rack that takes up less space instead of using up tons of counter space.
Great new ideas!!

Those stands look GREAT!!! I think you need a white one, black one and one just varnished (matte clear seal)!!

I decided to paint the bigger cake stand white and stain the smaller one. I used the bigger one yesterday at a wedding. http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1349489&done=1