DIY Cake Toppers

Here is a CREATE I did a year ago, but it's only a few days until my anniversary so I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. :)

I never liked the idea of an ordinary cake topper, so as a kid I decided the little statue guys would be having a cake fight-frosting on her face, frosting in his hand.
Once my handsome groom proposed, I did the "bride" thing and looked around at a few store bought toppers. They were exactly as I had thought. Most were faceless and had the most typical hair and clothes to be sellable. But now that I knew my Mr., I also knew he was tall and none of these toppers looked like us at all. And worst of all, they were very overpriced. So I got thinking and this is what I came up with. :)

And here's how I did it...

My husband is 7 feet tall (well, technically 6'11" but whatevs...) so I printed a 5x7 photo with him 7 inches tall on the long side. I am 5'5" so I printed a 5x7 with myself as 5.5 inches tall on the long side also.
When we practiced my hair and makeup and stuff at my friend's house, I put on my dress and had a friend take the picture and had her take one of him in his tux also.

Then I bought one of these Styrofoam posters at good ol' Wallyworld.

I started it out and had my mom finish because the tux pic had to be the day before the wedding to fit within the rental time.
But I painted glue onto the poster and stuck the picture on.
I used a razor blade and got this...

 

 

I stuck toothpicks in the bottom and they were done. :)

 

 

 

Ta-Dah!

 

 

 

Now, we keep it on a shelf in the sand we used for our sand ceremony. Here's that...

 

 

 







In the end, it looked JUST like us, height difference and all. AND it only cost the amount of the two photos ($0.26) and the poster (~$2ish) and the toothpicks and glue (free).

 

See you soon, friends! In the meantime, pray for me. I want to keep up with my SEEK, FOCUS, and CREATE, even if it means a post about a year-old craft. :) Thank ya.