Entry #21: DIY Teacup Cake Topper
Thu, Apr 1, 2010
Another project sent by Julia, who also made this adorable DIY Travel Paper Plane Mobile. This time she made a teacup cake topper, that can be found either at thrift stores or in your grandma’s cupboard. It’s a great alternative if you would like to honor your grandparents if the traditional figurine cake topper is not your thing.
What you’ll need:
-flowers
-vintage teacup and saucer
-floral foam
-twig
-colored paper
-paper embellishments (I used pearl stickers)
-glue dots
-tape
-scissors
-pen
-bowl of water
Instructions:
Step 1: Trim floral foam to a size that will fit snugly into your teacup. Poke holes in the top to allow water to soak through better.
Step 2: Place floral foam in a bowl of water and tape down so it doesn’t float up. Make sure water gets into the holes you poked. Allow foam to soak at least ten minutes, but ideally over an hour (the more water it has, the longer the flowers will last).
Step 3: Arrange trimmed flowers in teacup, poking stems into the foam. If stems are soft or really thick, make a hole in the foam before inserting flower so you don’t break the stem.
Step 4: Cut paper into a flag shape and write names of the bride and groom on it. Embellish with whatever you choose (I used pearl stickers).
Step 5: Fold paper over end of twig and secure with glue dots. Insert twig into the foam of your flower arrangement.
Step 6: Place teacup and saucer on cake and take lots of pictures!
*All photos by Picture Party
Tags: cake topper, DIY, DIY contest, flowers, tea party, teacup
This is really cute! Love the little flag.
LOVE it! What a creative and beautiful cake topper!
This is perfection. I love the teacup. I’m going to bake a coconut frosted cake tonight just so I can look at something somewhat as pretty!
WOW!!! girly ur SO inspirational….so vintagey. I LOVE IT!! n ur handwriting is amazing :D
Very pretty :) I love that the teacup coordinates with the flowers. They have great texture, too.
This is such a cute idea, and lovely photographs too – I really like the dreamy lighting! Snapdragons are one of my favourite kinds of flowers – great choice! :-)
I like :), my favorite out of all of them
So creative and whimsical.
I love #21, tea cup is such a cute idea..love it!!
Wow, I really like it. At first I thought a teacup on a cake would be a little weird but this is awesome. Good job Julia.
Adorable…love it!
I love the whole idea here, but the flowers and trig make it perfect. This one is my very favorite of all the entries! Anyone could pull this off, and it’s easy to make the cup complement the colors of the wedding.
wow! beautiful! this is way creative and yet so simple to throw together. a work of art!
its so cute !!!!!
Absolutely lovely…the best cake topper I’ve ever seen.
Looks great Julia!! That’ll be one stunning cake!!
so LoveLy : )