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Are you looking for an easy DIY Valentine’s Day craft to make with your Cricut machine? Look no further than these DIY cupcake toppers! These seven love-inspired cupcake toppers are perfect for Valentine’s Day gatherings, kid’s class parties, or just something sweet for a loved one.
In this Cricut tutorial, I feature cardstock with iron-on vinyl. Using heat transfer vinyl on cardstock is one of my favorite material combinations. Let’s review the supplies you will need to make these DIY cupcake toppers with your Cricut machine.
Supplies For Valentine’s Cupcake Toppers With Cricut
- Cardstock
- HTV (iron-on)
- Lollipop sticks
- Easypress mini
- Weeding tool
- Hot glue or washi tape
- Bearly art glue
- Cricut machine (Any Explore, Maker, or Joy model will work)
- Valentine SVG templates (find them below in the Craft Vault)
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Looking for freebies? Findkid-friendly and FREE Valentine’s day cards in my12 FREE Valentine’s Printablespost.
Cricut Design Space Tips
To get started, download the DIY cupcake topper SVG files in the Craft Vault (details above). Load the SVG files into Cricut Design Space. Learn how to upload your own SVG files to Cricut here.
Next, scale the cupcake toppers to your desired size. In general, I recommend keeping them around 3 inches at the widest point. You can also use these designs to scale them larger and make a full-size cake topper with your Cricut.
Cut out your materials on your Cricut. I make the cupcake topper designs using cardstock and iron-on vinyl. I like to use the two bottom layers with cardstock and the topmost layer with glitter HTV.
DIY Cupcake Toppers With Cricut Video Tutorial
When you are ready to assemble your cupcake toppers click play on the video below or keep reading for quick guide instructions with photos.
Valentine’s Day Cupcake Topper Instructions
- Cut out your cardstock and HTV layers with your Cricut.
- Glue together the cardstock layers first. I like to use Bearly Art glue.
- Weed your HTV and iron it onto the cardstock. I set my EasyPress mini to medium and pressed for 15-20 seconds. Let it cool, then remove the liner.
- Repeat this for all the Valentine’s cupcake toppers.
- Using a lollipop stick or toothpick, hot glue the stem to the back of the cupcake topper.
- You can either cut out an extra base piece of each design to cover the back using glue. Alternatively, opt to use a little washi tape which is what I do because you can remove this afterward, and your recipient can keep this design and use it to stick on a notebook, use it as a bookmark, etc.
- And that’s it! Stick your DIY cupcake toppers into a cupcake, and enjoy!
What do you think of the DIY cupcake toppers for Valentine’s Day? How would you use them? Tell me below in the comments. And don’t forget to get access to my premium craft collection, which includes hundreds of SVG files, templates, and printables, including these designs. Join the Member Vault here!
Looking for free Valentine’s Day SVG files? Check out my set of 16 free Valentine’s Day SVG cut files for Cricut and Silhouette.
Valentine's Day DIY Cupcake Toppers
Active Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Spread a little love this Valentine's Day with these seven cupcake toppers! You can download the SVG files to use with your Cricut cutting machine and create love-inspired messages and images to bring your cupcakes to life. This craft is easy and quick and can be used for yourself, your kid’s Valentine's treat, Sweetest Day, or any time you want to show someone you care.
Materials
- Cardstock
- HTV (iron-on) vinyl
- Lollipop sticks
- Easypress mini
- Weeding tool
- Hot glue
- Washi tape (if not using hot glue)
- Bearly art glue
- Cricut machine (Any Explore, Maker, or Joy model will work)
- Valentine Cupcake Topper SVG templates
Instructions
- Download the Valentine’s Day DIY Cupcake Topper SVG files.
- Upload the SVG files into Design Space.
- Resize the toppers to your desired size - about 3” wide for cupcake toppers or much larger for a cake topper.
- Cut out all cardstock and iron-on vinyl pieces. Weed where needed.
- Use Bearly Art glue to adhere the cardstock pieces together.
- Use your Easy Press mini and add the vinyl to the cardstock. Set the Easy Press mini to medium and press for 15-20 seconds. Let cool before removing the vinyl liner.
- Hot glue the lollipop stick to the back of the cupcake topper. You can also use washi tape so the lollipop stick is removable, and the cupcake topper can be kept as a souvenir.
- If you are using hot glue to permanently adhere the lollipop stick to the cupcake topper, I recommend cutting an extra cardstock base to cover to hide the stick on the back.
Stick the DIY cupcake toppers into your delicious cupcakes, and voila! Extra love added!
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