How to Make Paper Cupcake Toppers
If you are going to make cupcakes, you will think about buying cupcake toppers. They are usually plastic or paper icons and have pictures. However, you can get the same look by making cupcake toppers yourself. And the best part is, you will save a lot of money.
Things you will need to make paper cupcake toppers:
- Toothpicks
- Glue sticks
- Stickers
- Printer
- Printer paper
- Scissors
- Look for a graphic design or group of designs that you will need for decoration. Take a look in the graphic programs you have on your computer or you can look on a graphics website.
- Print many copies of the design you prefer. Pick the design size so it will be 1 ½ inches square. You will then pick pairs of pictures in one graphic or an entire set.
- Create a circle or square around the graphics. All the outlines should be 1 ¾ inches across. You will then cut out a circle or square.
- Take a glue stick and apply it to the back of the surface of a cut out. You will then put a toothpick on the paper with the blunt half on the paper and the pointed part hanging out of the bottom. Put a matching paper graphic on the top of the first and press them into each other. The toothpick should be between the two layers.
- Take the toothpick and poke it into the center of a cupcake with icing. The cupcake is now ready to go.