How Do I Make A Cake Topper With My Cricut
Hello Daydreamers!
Today, you will acquire how to make gorgeous cake toppers with your Cricut for any occasion.
Not just volition I teach you how to make them from scratch in Cricut Design Space, but I will besides provide you with over 10+ SVG block topper templates that will suit all your crafting needs. (Christmas, Wedding, Altogether, Valentines' Day, etc.)
You tin do this project with any Cricut machine. I used my Cricut Maker, only I take notes that will guide yous if yous take an Explore, Joy, Maker, Explore, or Maker 3 devices.
In that location are many ways to brand cake toppers with your Cricut, and today I will evidence you a wide variety of methods that will set you up for success.
In a nutshell, these are the techniques I am going to use through this tutorial.
- Materials yous need for any cake topper
- How to Make a block topper with Fonts
- Using the Showtime tool to brand cake toppers
- Print then Cut cake toppers
- Making block toppers with Cricut Images
- Make cake toppers with the Free SVG Templates I provided you with
Ideally, you lot will read this tutorial from the showtime because as nosotros become, we volition be implementing the concepts mentioned in the previews steps.
Note: Since all the cake toppers go through the exact cutting and assembly procedure, I volition only cover the cut process of the showtime one. (I don't want to be repetitive)
Are you ready?
Let'due south Daydream Into Reality!
Materials for Cricut Block Toppers
Do you know what the key to making the nigh fantastic cake toppers is?
It'due south Paper!
Paper is something you lot never desire to go cheap on. Especially if you lot are making a block topper; because although little, this little piece volition ofttimes be in the center of your party.
Here'due south a list of the materials y'all'll need
- Cricut Machine (Maker, Explore Family, Joy, Explore 3, Maker three)
- Glitter Cardstock
- Colorful Cardstock for the back of the topper (optional).
- Fine Bespeak Bract
- Cake topper sticks
- Loftier-Quality Glue (please don't use cheap or kids glue)
- Standard Green Mat
- Scraper (for cleaning up the mat)
- Brayer (optional, just my favorite tool in the Cricut world)
How to Make Block Toppers with Cricut Fonts
Even for avant-garde Cricut users, something a little difficult to understand is what will fall out afterward a cut and what volition stick together.
When making a cake topper, y'all need to make sure that everything y'all want stays together.
We'll be making a "Happy Birthday" cake topper with letters to teach you this concept.
Step 1 – Add and Edit Text
Click on the "Text" button located on the left panel of the Canvas and blazon in "happy altogether."
Initially, your text will be Cricut Sans, but since nosotros are working on party decoration, let's modify the font.
Select the text, and click on "Font," and choose your favorite 1. I picked the font "A Child'due south Year" for this tutorial because it has a good (party) vibe.
Tip: For cake toppers, I recommend yous use a thick font to provide stability to your project.
Once you change your font, keep your text selected and go to the top panel on the canvas, click on "Advanced," and choose the option "Ungroup to Letters."
Ungrouping text to messages volition allow you lot to edit each letter on its own.
To edit each letter, select information technology, rotate it, increase the size, and unlock proportions from each one of the corners of the selection.
Yous tin can learn more near text and how to edit it in this handy tutorial.
Step 2 – Overlap and Weld Text
Information technology's fourth dimension to give shape to the block topper and to do that we need to organize all letters.
This is the most fourth dimension-consuming part of the projection and the most important considering it will ensure that all of the letters remain together afterward your Cricut cuts the cake topper.
Start by overlapping all letters. I decided to have "happy" on the elevation and "altogether" at the bottom.
You lot may struggle to join all of the letters. That'due south when rotating and unlocking the proportions of each letter of the alphabet comes in handy. If you lot pay attention to the screenshot down below, you'll detect that everything looks dissimilar.
The goal here is to accept everything connected.
Oh! And don't forget the dot from the letter "i." Every bit you lot can encounter, I connected the dot (for the letter "i") with the letter of the alphabet h.
When all of your letters are overlapped, select them and click on "Weld" (located on the bottom panel) to create a single layer.
Step 3 – Re-create and Flip Design
Unremarkably, near cake toppers will have a cute paper on the forepart and a white obviously naught on the dorsum.
Well…
Not today, my friend!
This thing where you have to place the cake in a particular position to hibernate the "dark side" will be a affair of the past.
Not just your cake topper will look more beautiful if you have some other (or the same paper from the forepart) paper on the back, simply it will also add extra sturdiness to the terminal project.
In other words, information technology'due south a win-win.
To add a different color on the dorsum of the topper, duplicate it (top of layers panel), select one of the copies, click on "Flip," and select the option "Flip Horizontal."
At that place you have information technology; the front and the dorsum of the cake topper.
Stride 4 – Resize, Change Color and Make information technology
You lot can change the colors of the block topper. I decided to go with royal for the front and a rainbow-similar color for the back.
Note: Change colors by clicking on the colour box next to "Operation" (yous need to select the layer beginning).
Also, and before y'all cut the design, bank check the size of your projection.
If you demand to increment or decrease the size of the projection, make certain that the top and front end of the topper measure the aforementioned.
As a reference, mine ended up being seven X iv.six in.
Important: For Cricut Joy, your design can't exist larger than 4.25″ x 6.25″ if using a small mat to 4.25″ x 11.75″ if using a big mat.
Once you lot are happy with your design, go alee and click on the green "Brand information technology" button.
Step 5 – Cutting Process
Tip: Newer machines will ask whether you want to cutting on the mat or without. Select "Cut on Mat."
When you send your project, this is the view yous should have. There are two mats that stand for each material. Although if yous decided to have the same color for the front and dorsum, you would only have one mat.
If everything looks adept, click on the continue push.
It's fourth dimension to cull your materials.
If y'all accept a automobile with a punch (Explore Family unit Machines), set information technology to custom so you tin can follow along on the screenshots.
For the tools, yous need to install the "Fine Indicate Bract" on clamp "B" and prepare your mat. Now, let's movement to some existent photos so you can see what to practice side by side.
For this project, I volition be using a Standard Greenish Mat.
Place the cardstock on superlative of the mat and secure it with your hands, scraper, or with my FAVORITE TOOL in the globe, the brayer!
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After securing the paper to the mat, load information technology to your Cricut and printing the "Flashing Go" button to kickoff the cut.
Yay!
When your Cricut finishes the cut, unload the mad and remove the material from information technology.
The best fashion to remove the cake topper is past bending the mat and letting gravity exercise most of the work. (Check the photo right above)
Now, clean up the mat with the scrapper and repeat the same process for the second mat.
I used a unlike material for the 2d cut, so I had to change the fabric from Design Space again.
If you are using another material, don't forget to brand the necessary changes, like moving the Smart Fix Dial (Explore family machines) or changing the material in Design Space.
One time yous accept both cuts, information technology's time to assemble your Birthday Topper.
Stay away from kid'south glue. It's not meant for these projects; they won't look good because the paper gets wet and bubbly.
I beloved and always recommend Buoy 3-in-1 advanced glue.
You don't need to add a whole lot of glue. A little bit goes a long mode. Also, every bit you glue, make sure everything is aligned.
Let the topper dry for a picayune bit, and turn information technology around to glue the cake topper stick (I used lollipop sticks). The idea is to place the stick in the middle of the pattern; y'all want it where yous tin't come across it when you are holding it.
Further, in this article, I take some examples of where I had to use two sticks.
Doesn't it look gorgeous?
I don't know well-nigh you, but this postal service is already making me hungry for some yummy cake.
Before we continue…
From now on, I will assume you lot read and understood all of the concepts I just explained. If you are just getting started with your Cricut, I recommend you read before moving on (I don't want you to get lost).
Making Cake Toppers with the Offset Tool
In Cricut Design Infinite, Offset is a tool that allows you to create a proportional outline inside and outside of the text, images, and shapes.
The showtime tool is located on the top panel on the canvas area.
Do you remember when I said that all the layers needed to be together so they wouldn't fall off subsequently the cutting?
Well, with the offset tool, non only tin you create a stunning effect on your projects, but y'all can also create a placement for your messages and glue individually on the outline.
Allow's run into the following screenshot and have a piffling conversation.
We are doing an offset on the "Congrats!" give-and-take. All messages are attached, only the dot from the assertion point is loose. Meaning with a regular block topper, as I explained before, that dot will be lost.
Whenever you click on the get-go icon, you will run into a light bluish outline on the shape or text you are selecting on the canvas. For the changes to take effect, you always demand to press "Utilize."
In one case you press "Apply," yous tin't alter the features of the outline. If yous want a bigger or smaller one, you tin hands echo the process.
Every fourth dimension you lot set new settings, Pattern Space will call back the i y'all last used. This is very useful considering you desire your projects to wait uniform. If yous're working with different get-go distances, brand certain to have a picayune notation next to you where you take note of that because the programme won't think it.
For this cake topper, I added 3 offsets. Add together the offset outline, and utilize information technology as a reference to add a new get-go.
Change colors, and voila!
A beautiful design!
Check out how like shooting fish in a barrel it is to glue and put together likewise.
This feature (offset tool) volition bring your block toppers to a new level!
Check out my offset tutorial to larn all almost this setting.
Making Cake Toppers With Print and so Cut
If y'all're in a rush and desire a colorful and easy project, you should make cake toppers using "Print and then Cutting." When using your home printer, your cake topper can't exist larger than 6.75″ x 9.25″
Note: Cricut Joy doesn't back up Impress then Cut.
For this cake topper, I also decided to use the first tool to accept placement for the letters because they are non all welded. If you choose to use fonts only, you have to do the same steps I mentioned at the beginning of this article.
I did half dozen outlines.
Select everything that is part of your design and click on "Flatten" at the bottom of the layer'due south panel.
Now, your pattern is on a single layer and ready to get!
Click on "Make it."
The following screenshot shows a preview of how your impress should wait like.
Yous need to brand sure yous place the print on your Cricut Mat the exact manner you run across it hither.
Click on "Go on."
After leaving the mat preview, you will be given the footstep by step to cut your projection.
The first option is "Impress," Information technology has a push button that says "Send to Printer." Go alee and click there.
A little window named "Print Setup" will open. From this window, y'all volition be able to choose your printer, add extra copies to your project, turn on bleed, or employ your system dialog box.
After you print, it's fourth dimension for you to choose the material you printed on. I used Medium Cardstock.
Install "Fine Betoken Blade," place printed re-create on the mat, load information technology to your Cricut and press the flashing go button to start the cutting.
The "Print so Cut" sensor will turn on, and it will offset reading the frame surrounding all of the designs that we need to cut; in one case information technology's done reading, the Cricut will cut them all.
When Cricut Blueprint Space tells yous the Cutting is washed, unload your Mat, remove the cake topper from it.
This is how it looks assembled.
Doesn't information technology look pretty?
Learn everything you need to know about Print then Cut.
Making Cake Toppers With Cricut Images
If y'all are looking for something quick or even more than elaborate, you tin use Cricut Images (located on the left panel of the sail).
Cricut's library is full (over 100k) of designs for whatever occasion, and you lot tin can filter all of them by categories, keywords, etc.
If you are looking for a detail occasion, you can type in the word that best describes information technology. For example, I filtered past "wedding," and I got a lot of options.
Hither'south the matter, not all images are for cake toppers!
If you desire to cut correct abroad with minimal editing, y'all need to observe an image where all messages look overlapped (just as we overlapped the birthday topper).
Down beneath, y'all have some examples of the cake toppers you tin can make.
Although the selection is extensive for yous to make cake toppers, there'due south going to be a time when you like an image that's not set up!
Like the image I selected on the screenshot right above. As yous can see, everything is separated.
Don't despair though, if that's what y'all desire, allow me show you how to brand a simple paradigm from design space into a cake topper.
Step ane: Insert the image into the canvas area.
Step 2: Duplicate (copy/paste) until you lot have iii copies. Annotation: if yous have more lines of text or elements that are scattered, you need to have more than copies.
Step three: Use the profile tool (bottom of the Layers panel) but to show the first line of each design.
For the "about," yous don't need to contour. Yous only need to delete or hide the pinkish layer underneath.
If you don't know how to utilize contour, check out my tutorial.
Step four: Make the different elements into a cake topper past overlapping each line (wild, about, u).
Step 5: Select all lines and click on "Weld" to have all items in i unmarried layer.
I decided to add an extra touch of creativity with glitter!
Don't y'all recall it makes the block topper pop up? How cute will this topper look on a romantic Valentine's appointment?
I utilise a patterned paper for the back. Adjacent fourth dimension, I would pick something else, but it looks 10 times better than a boring white background.
Complimentary SVG Cake Toppers
Here are the free SVG cake toppers templates that y'all can utilize for any of your personal projects.
Delight don't share them on social media similar Facebook groups or the "Public" option in Cricut Design Infinite. If you want to share them with someone, why non share this link to access them likewise?
To download the files, you Demand to be on a desktop or laptop, and y'all must click on the button to trigger a download file on your pc.
Depending on your browser settings, sometimes your PC volition ask where to save the file, although, near times, the files volition exist in your download binder.
If the prototype opens in a new window (this may happen because of your browser settings), right-click on it, select the option "Relieve Image As," and choose where you want to save the file.
SVG files look like a spider web folio file when you download them.
Oh!
And merely then y'all know, I also have a library full of free SVG files and Printables for all of my subscribers, a.one thousand.a Daydreamers. You tin can see a preview right here or go admission past filling out this form.
Making Cake Toppers with Uploaded SVG files
After saving the "Dearest" file to your reckoner, log in to Pattern Infinite and when you are on the canvas, get to the Upload option (located on the left console) and click on "Upload Images."
Follow the prompts that Design Space brings upwardly, and one time your image is saved, yous tin can meet information technology in Recently uploaded images; select it and click on "Insert Images."
Duplicate the image, and flip horizontally ane of the copies for the back of the topper.
For this block topper, I want to teach you how to add a beautiful embellishment effect.
Indistinguishable the front of the topper again, add together a square to the canvas (shapes are located on the left console), and unlock the proportions to course a rectangle.
Have the rectangle comprehend the lower office of the word love similar I show you in the screenshot below
After placing the rectangle on the one-half-bottom of the give-and-take, select it forth with the word and click on "Slice."
Motion all the "Slice Upshot" pieces, keep 1 of the "lower" cuts, and delete the rest.
Alter the colors earlier you send the projection to cut. I went with bright and dark pinkish.
Look how the actress decoration looks when we place information technology on peak of the forepart of the topper.
When you are happy with the colors and size, click on "Make information technology."
Fast frontwards…
Look how elegant and refined this Beloved Cake Topper looks.
More Block Topper Ideas to Brand with your Cricut
Look at all these other possibilities you have when making Block Toppers with your Cricut.
Are you planning a baby shower? Await qt this "It'south a Girl" Topper.
Tip: Stiff and double-sided materials like Metallic Posterboard are besides fantabulous for this type of project. (you don't need to make a behind cutting)
Look at the "It's a Boy" topper. To give practiced stability to the topper, I had to use two sticks.
Isn't it adorable?
For birthdays you lot can also use the age of the birthday (girl or boy) similar this "One Block Topper."
It's simple but also elegant.
Check out how the newspaper you choose for your projects can make a difference!
I think this 'Yay!" topper would wait great on a luau cake!
Let's non forget about Christmas!
Look how I used some of the SVG Files I provided you with to create two different styles. Only you tin too achieve this look using the starting time tool.
Beau – TI – FUL
The kickoff "Merry Christmas Topper" has a groundwork fabricated with Green Corrugated Newspaper, and the second topper is fabricated of glitter cardstock only.
Last simply not least!
If you are getting married or helping a friend with her wedding, brand certain you use your Cricut to make a Wedding Cake Topper!
The "E'er After" topper is in Cricut Blueprint Infinite nether the code #M10842C2. The "Mr & Mrs. Cake Topper" is available to download on this post (in the Costless SVG Files section).
Aren't they all super cute?
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