I’m so excited to finally share my DIY cake topper tutorial! I was inundated with questions about how I made the sparkly gold decor in my glitter and glam engagement party shoot, so I wanted to share the step by step process for making these fun and easy cake toppers! Check out more fun wedding DIY inspiration on Cricut!
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DIY Cake Topper Tutorial with Cricut
I had a lot of fun creating these designs for a chic and modern wedding cake topper! I used some of my favorite script and sans serif fonts to create custom topper designs that can be found at the bottom of the post to download and use for your own cakes!
If you are creating your own designs, I recommend adding a stroke to the lettering or underscoring slender fonts with a thick line to make sure that the toppers can hold their rigid shape. The glitter cardstock offers a good base for a free standing topper, but adding poster board backing ensures a firmer and longer lasting design!
Check out my step by step tutorial below!
Materials –
- The Cricut machine of your choice (I have an Explore Air)
- Cricut Weeding Tool + Spatula
- Glitter Cardstock
- Poster Board (optional but recommended)
- Bamboo Skewers
- ModPodge or SuperGlue
- Paintbrush
- Bamboo Skewers
- Cake Topper Design (see the bottom of the post for free printable versions!)
DIY Cake Topper Tutorial with Cricut
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Free Printable Cake Topper Designs –
(personal use only)
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Hi. Can the glitter cardstock be glued to rhe poster board prior to be cut with the cricut maker?
HI Joseph,
I have an Air Pro and not a Maker so I’m not exactly sure – but I think as long as the thickness of the two pieces of material doesn’t exceed the Maker’s depth settings, you should be able to cut them together! I would do a test run with scrap pieces just to be sure!
I was also wondering about the same thing. Have you tried it already?
In my own opinion, I think using a calligraphy strong font is much better than the slender font. The design would be able to hold itself and not bend. I have made some slender fonts in the past and I always get frustrated when it would bend during the event. Thou there are times i use slender fonts for some designs as requested by my clients. 🙂 By the way, I like the infinity love and celebrate design.
Did you use the modge podge for the cardboard backing and the glitter cardstock?
You can use it to adhere a cardboard backing to the glitter if you feel like the topper needs to be reinforced – I only used it to attach the cardstock to the skewers since it felt durable enough to me!
What size bamboo skewers do you use?
Standard BBQ skewers work great – I think mine were 11.25″ long and 3mm wide, but you can cut them down to your desired length!
Thanks for the tutorial! Do those fonts come in the Cricut DesignSpace App? I’m looking to create a customized cake topper for a friend on the Cricut at my local library. How would I go about creating the actual worded design? Thanks!
Hi Sarah,
I created all of the topper designs using InDesign! I would recommend using a design program of some kind to create your custom topper, then exporting it as a .png. Once you have your custom .png, you can follow the rest of the tutorial to upload to DesignSpace. I used a few custom designs that I created myself, and the November Starlight script for the lettered ones! I hope that helps!
What fonts are you using? I love your work!
Thank you so much! I’m a font addict so there are a few in here – I used November Starlight for a fun script look, Denver for the clean serif style, and Amigirl for the more elegant script!