craftgrrl | Let them eat cake

This project is over a year old, but I thought that it might inspire someone out there to break the mold. I made my own cake topper for my wedding. I got a silver metal candle holder from a thrift store for .10, and a pack of sculpey for 2.00. I had silver paint and the background flowers on hand.

I rolled the clay out flat with a rolling pin, cut the heart shapes out with an exacto knife, rounded and smoothed the edges and the corners of the shape. I cooked the shape, then went about filling the base of the metal candleholder with clay. I took my cooked heart shapes and some toothpicks, positioned the design where I wanted it to be, then pressed in, making grooves for the bottom of the heart points to sit on the clay base. I cooked the base, then used hot glue to prop up the heart design. I painted the clay and toothpicks silver, then I hot-glued a bunch of flowers behind the heart. I also got out some rhinestones, but they look really tacky in this photo.

On the cake. I drew my cake, and the baker made it EXACTLY as I had drawn it. I also made all of the wedding mints you see on the table, as well as the flower girl basket (hot-glued white satin over a thrift store wicker basket...very carefully), my wedding card holder for the gift table,

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the invitations, 40 floating heart candles, four ring bearer/usher vests, and most of the flowers. I also had about a year to plan, I guess, but I also ended up with a lot more wedding for a lot less money than anyone I know.

I also made several banners and yard signs pointing out the way to the ceremony, since it was in a park. I painted that heart design you see on the topper, onto a ton of little glass fishbowls for the tables. I think the best of my ideas, was to draw up and print wedding-themed coloring books for all of the kids that were forced to endure our wedding. Weddings suck!

Take that, anyone who makes fun of us craft freaks!