{"id":27,"date":"2013-09-05T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-04-27T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:56:28","slug":"diy-glitter-cake-topper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"DIY Glitter Cake Topper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I like crafty things. \u00a0Especially for events. \u00a0Being able to say, “Yeah, I made<\/i>\u00a0that” is pretty great.<\/p>\n

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Take a cake topper for instance. \u00a0Yeah, the typical numbers are fun, but they can be a bit cheesy. \u00a0I wasn’t about to use anything<\/i> cheesy for my mom’s surprise 50th. \u00a0{I planned and executed the whole thing with the help of my aunt and sister-in-law, so I can’t wait to share all of the details! \u00a0That will come later though, when I have lots of free time!}<\/p>\n

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So, I decided to make my own cake topper! \u00a0I knew what I had in mind.<\/p>\n

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{wooden numbers + glue + glitter}<\/p>\n

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Now, this wasn’t my first experience with cake-topper-making. \u00a0I had made just one before. \u00a0For my wedding cake. Yes, that’s right. \u00a0I made my wedding cake topper with no prior cake-topper-making experience. \u00a0And I really like how it turned out.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure how well you can see them, but they are wooden birds, or “love birds” as I call them. \u00a0I found these wooden birds at Michael’s for about $0.30 each. \u00a0I picked up four of them, two being extra in case I messed up. Then, I found really pretty blue and pink craft paint from Martha Stewart’s craft line. \u00a0After that, I just needed wooden skewers, a pretty stencil, and white paint.<\/p>\n

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I cut two of the wooden skewers in half to shorten them and painted the birds white. \u00a0After the white dried, I placed the stencils over the birds and painted the boy bird blue and the girl bird pink. \u00a0Once the colored paint had dried, I used my hot glue gun to glue the birds to the skewers. \u00a0And ta-da! \u00a0My wedding cake toppers were complete! \u00a0This picture might show the colors better:<\/p>\n

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Yes, breaking out the pink champagne!<\/p>\n

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I really didn’t like any of the wedding cake toppers I found online, plus they were so expensive. \u00a0I didn’t want to spend money on something I wasn’t even crazy about to begin with. \u00a0This project cost me between $5-$10. \u00a0Plus I love the handmade touch.<\/p>\n

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Okay, now for the topper I made for my mom’s surprise 50th birthday party. \u00a0I knew I wanted to follow the same concept as my wedding cake topper, but I couldn’t find a five or zero at my local craft store. \u00a0I ended up turning to Amazon to order them, and when I received the numbers, they were a little bigger than I planned. \u00a0I used them anyway, and still like how the topper turned out.<\/p>\n

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{I know the cake looks odd, but I made it my self. \u00a0My first ever attempt at a layered cake. \u00a0And while it looks like it has “character” it at least tasted delicious!}
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I purchased craft glue (so it would dry clear) and a pack of glitter from the Dollar Tree. \u00a0Then, it got messy. After gluing and then shaking the glitter onto the toppers, I found that glitter was going to fall off of these toppers when we put them in the cake. \u00a0So, I ran to the bottle of\u00a0decoupage\u00a0sealer I knew I had lying around somewhere and coated my glitter. \u00a0After it dried, I was so relieved to see that the glitter wasn’t going anywhere.<\/p>\n

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Then, I used my hot glue gun to glue the numbers to halved wooden skewers, and my cake topper was complete!<\/p>\n

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And while I’m here, talking about the crafty cake topper, I may as well share that I made the cake stand as well. I couldn’t afford any of the cake stands I found and loved, so it just made sense to try and make it myself. \u00a0I had seen on Pinterest that you can glue a dollar store plate to a candle stick, so I thought I would give that a try. It worked!<\/p>\n

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I ended up purchasing the plate and candlestick from the Dollar Tree, and my sis-in-law and I used super heavy duty glue to adhere the plate to the candlestick. \u00a0After letting it set, we were thrilled <\/i>to see that it didn’t budge. \u00a0(I mean, it was a $2.00 project, so if it had <\/i>failed, we would have been okay with it.) \u00a0And then, when I left it at her house and she had to bring it to me later that week, it ended up getting tossed around in the back of her car and still didn’t break. \u00a0At that point, we figured we were okay to use it for our cake stand :-)<\/p>\n

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Here’s a closer picture of it:<\/p>\n

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I can’t wait to share the rest of the surprise party!<\/p>\n

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Happy Thursday all! \u00a0One more day til the weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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