Floral Cake Smash Inspiration - A few of Our Favorites with this popular theme!

The most requested cake smash theme that we get here at the studio is FLORAL CAKE SMASH. It is perfect for little girls, and it is so simple, timeless, and sweet. I absolutely love designing floral cake smash setups, and it’s always a fun challenge to make each one unique. Here we’re sharing a few of our favorite floral cake smash designs for inspiration for your little one’s upcoming first birthday portrait session!

This hanging floral wall had a nice bohemian vibe, and I loved how clean and elegant it looked with these tiny little rosebuds!

The fresh purple hydrangeas cut from the front yard on my way to this birthday girl’s portrait session were the perfect finishing touch to her tea party cake smash!

More fresh florals! You can never go wrong with fresh blooms!

This sweet girl’s mama made her flower crown, and I designed the balloon garland with greenery to match!

Our paper flower backdrop really sparkled with a little gold bling!

More pretty peonies for an English garden theme.

Some-bunny is one! This perfectly springtime theme wouldn’t have been complete without gorgeous flowers and greenery!

I love how versatile our garlands are for weaving different flowers into them!

Crepe paper flowers were a nice touch for a flower wall filled with fluffy peonies!

Floral hoops for a bit of a boho vibe!

This is the paper flower backdrop that started it all! It is our most re-pinned image on Pinterest, and the DIY tutorial is the most viewed blog post on our website!

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Boho Cake Smash with Floral Hoops | Saratoga Springs, NY Cake Smash Photographer

Luiza traveled to our Attleboro studio all the way from Cape Cod to celebrate her first birthday with a cake smash session, and I had so much fun with this happy, smiley birthday girl and her sweet family!

She enjoyed lots of cuddles with her brother, mom, and dad in the studio, and she didn't stop smiling and laughing the entire time!  

For her cake smash, we used a new backdrop of floral hoops for a boho feel, with pops of light pink per mom's request.  I absolutely love how this backdrop came together for Luiza's session -- check out a DIY tutorial to make your own on the blog!

We have SO MANY BIRTHDAY BABIES on the calendar for this summer.  Have you booked your cake smash session yet?  Be sure to reach out with at least one month before your baby's birthday to ensure a spot on the calendar for your little one's birthday session!
 

DIY Floral Hoops Tutorial for Photography Backdrops

Our DIY tutorials have always been some of our most popular blog posts, and after many requests to share a DIY on our new floral hoops, here it is! 

These props have been very popular this spring and I've seen many photographers adapt it to their style with colors and textures that make it unique. 

The options truly are endless -- artificial flowers, dried flowers, felt flowers.  Sparkly glitter-covered greenery, eucalyptus leaves, Spanish moss.  Light and airy colors or deep rich tones for the fall and winter.  

Have fun gathering your supplies, and make a few sets so that you can rotate them out with each season!

Supplies needed:

Embroidery hoops from the craft store
Hot glue gun
Glue sticks
Your favorite artificial flowers
Greenery
Fishing wire
Scotch tape

1.  Separate each embroidery hoop so that you have twice as many hoops — the inner and the outer circles can each make their own floral hoop.  I find that mixing a variety of sizes gives the best effect for your backdrop — I used 9”, 10” and 12” hoops.

2.  Trim the blooms off of your artificial flowers.  I use sharp scissors and cut the blossoms off of the flowers, and also a few of the leaves to mix in.  I also trim down the greenery/vines so that I can weave that along the edges of the hoops, too. 

3.  Try a few different combinations of blooms and greenery, mixing and matching colors and sizes.  I love layering a larger bloom with some smaller, dainty blossoms such as baby’s breath with peonies.  Decide how you want your greenery to drape on the frame as well.

4.  Get your glue gun ready and go to town, pressing your blooms into the edge of the hoop with the hot glue to hold it in place. 

5.  Attach fishing line at the top of your hoop.  I used clear Scotch tape to hold it in place so that it wouldn’t slide around the circle due to the weight of the flowers at the bottom. 

6.  Hang your hoops!   You can hang them from a backdrop stand, or you can use blue painter’s tape and hang them directly on the wall or backdrop.  To avoid shadows while photographing, try to leave as little space between the hoops and the backdrop/wall as possible.

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Check out a few of our most popular (and most-pinned on Pinterest!) DIY tutorials below:

DIY Paper Flower Backdrop

DIY Shabby Chic Teepee 

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