DIY Cake Toppers From Flower Sketches
Last summer I spent quite a few days honing my flower sketching skills by looking at free tutorials from a wide variety of sources, check out my previous posts here, and then I added watercolor to them here, just for starters! You can check out all the posts that show what I’ve been up to in my sketchbooks here. So, when my daughter’s birthday came around, it was only natural to make some sketched peonie paper cake toppers that I ended up using in some fun birthday centerpieces (more on that later…..) I drew these from a tutorial that I saw on Pinterest, and it is truly addictive, because the flowers end up looking so well, perfect? Not that perfect is ever the goal, but with cut out sketched flowers for a cake topper or even to add to a plant or bouquet, that somewhat perfect look just plain works! And best of all, this is also a recycling craft, so keep on reading for the simple supplies, and why not spend a lazy summer day sketching some flowers to use who knows when? I am keeping my collection of these kinds of crafts in a box, to pull out when needed for birthdays, anniversaries, you name it!
You’ll Need:
- a pencil
- two black pens, a very thin one, and a slightly thicker one
- white paper
- cereal box cardboard
- glue, double stick tape or spray adhesive (yikes, toxic)
- skewers and tape or hot glue to affix skewer to back
How To:
- Practice drawing the flowers, with a variety of leaves, with a thin black pen, pencil first, or not. I do/did both
- Draw flowers on white paper, make sure that the black lines are a combination of thin and thick to give more interest to the flowers.
- Mount the drawings on cereal box cardboard and cut out.
- Attach skewers to the back and stick into a cake, a plant, an existing real flower bouquet, or into a vase/jar/can so many way to go with this!
- Carefully store your decorations to use again!
