The CUTEST DIY Photo BIrthday Cupcake Toppers!
A fun way to decorate birthday cupcakes for any age!
Equipment
- 1 printer
- 1 camera- or phone camera
- 1 computer
- Photoshop is a great tool!
- 1 pair of scissors
- 1 pair of wire cutters
Materials
- 4 x 6 Photo Shop paper
- Liquid Glue
- Cupcake sprinkles or other hat decorations
- Pom Poms for hat
- Scrapbook paper
- Skewers
- packing tape
Instructions
- For best lighting, take subject outside for photos.
- Looking through your camera or phone lens, center the person for a head and shoulders photo.
- When you are the correct distance apart, try and take as many photos as you can with different expressions with neither of you moving so that the results of the images are alike as much as possible.
- Using your photo editing program--photo shop works great--add the photo to your program. Select the images you like and size them to 2" wide and 2 1/2" tall to fit the cupcakes.
- Position 3 photos on a 4 x 6" photo paper.
- Place 4 x 6 photo paper into your printer and print as many as you need for the number of cupcakes desired.
- Use sharp scissors to cut as closely to the image as possible.
- Make a template for your birthday hat--1 1/2" for the width of the bottom of the hat...and 1 3/4" for the height and each side. Using the template, cut out as many hats as needed from scrapbook paper matching your theme and colors.
- Decorate the brim of the hat using a line of liquid glue and sprinkling cupcake sprinkles OR your other favorite decoration or trim to match your theme.
- Glue a pom pom to the top of the hat. TIP: You could hole punch paper if you don't have pom poms...but...pom poms really made them better!
- When the hats are dry, add one dot of glue to the top of the head that's been cut out and position the hats on the photographs.
- Cut skewers to 4 1/2" using wire cutters to cut them.
- Tear off small pieces of packing tape and cut in half giving just enough tape to center the skewer and adhere to each side beside the skewer to the photo but not any larger so it isn't seen from the front.
- Place a skewer in the center of the tape.
- When cupcake toppers are dry, flip them over and center the tape and skewer where the skewer touches the top of the photo--not into the hat--and secure the tape on each side of the skewer.
- They are NOW ready to add to the cupcakes!
- Insert those cute photo cupcake toppers into each cupcake!
Notes
These make the perfect cupcake toppers for any age birthday party! 1 to 100 will love these!
And if you have a retirement party coming soon? Wouldn't these be fun?!!
Graduation parties this spring? Wouldn't these be the BEST?
Have fun, friends! Hope you laugh as much making them as I did! My favorite DIY and party planning activity yet!