Tutorial: cupcake topper assembly

Cupcake toppers are easy to assemble and make your cupcakes look even more delicious (or, if your cupcakes did not turn out great, this will keep your guests looking at the topper rather than at the unfortunate cupcake, brilliant!). Want to add a little sparkle to your cupcakes? Here's how.

First of all, you'll need some tools: with a pair of scissors, a glue stick and some wooden stir sticks or lollipop sticks you have the basics covered.

Of course you will also need some cute cupcake topper designs. These are for my daughter's upcoming Alice in Wonderland birthday party and they can be found in the shop. 

You could use scissors to cut out square or circular shapes, but if you have any punches this will make the assembly go a lot faster and the shapes even cuter. Check your local craft store or search online for circular or scallop shaped punches. A 2" radius is a nice size.

If you don't have any punches you can print out 2 copies of the design. Cut out squares out of one copy and circles out of the other copy.  With a little 3D tape in between they add a lovely 3D effect to your cupcake topper!

And now for the actual assembly of the toppers:

1. Cut away the white strip of paper so you can get closer to the design with your punch.

2. Place your punch so that the design is exactly in the middle and then punch out your shape.

Tada!

Some punches can be used upside down, this is very handy when it comes to punching out shapes where the design has to be centred.

Keep punching and add a little variation in your cupcake toppers by using different punch shapes.

You could even use a corner punch

This would look wonderful as a gift tag when tied to a gift bag with some pretty ribbon. Or use it to make napkin rings!

3. If your printer can't handle heavyweight paper, then you could reinforce your paper with a circle sticker after you punch out the shape. All you have to do now is glue the stick to the back of your topper (you could also use tape) and voila

all done!

Feel free to embellish even further with a little sparkle or tie a ribbon underneath the topper.

And now all you need to do is bake some cupcakes!

This was my first tutorial, I hope you found it helpful.