Birthday Cupcake Toppers

One of my favorite people, Jalah, celebrated her birthday this past week. I decided to help her kick off the celebration in our grad school class by surprising her with cupcakes (more on those in a later blog post).

Cupcakes are pretty much the most delicious things around, and they are already pretty cute. But since you can have cupcakes on any old day, I thought Jalah's birthday cupcakes needed a little something extra.

In the past I have used stickers or foam cut outs on toothpicks to create easy cupcake toppers, but this time (with NO help from pinterest I might add) I decided to step up my game.

I started by typing up "Happy birthday!" TAB "Happy birthday!" ENTER as many times I could get it to fit onto one page. Then I picked a cute, but readable font and printed it.

Then I measured roughly a quarter of an inch out from each side of the "Happy birthday!" lines to mark how long I wanted them to be.

I then cut out on the pencilled lines and then cut between my "Happy birthday!" rows until they were just the perfect width. Next I folded those in half so that they could be glued on to fancy scrapbook paper.

I cut the fancy scrapbook paper to a desired width in strips.

Then I folded each in half and laid the "Happy birthday!" print over the fold to determine how long the scrapbook paper needed to be. Once I found my desired length I chopped into it forming a "v" to make a cute banner like look.

After this, I glued the "Happy birthday!" onto the scrapbook paper. Then the scrapbook paper to the top of a toothpick and laid it out to dry.