On the cover of the April Scrapbooks etc., are a plateful of colorful baker's twine cupcakes. After seeing this, I just has to try one of my own.
The picture is kind of dark, but here is my cute little cupcake. (Actually it's not so little, it's kind of a jumbo cupcake.)
I didn't take pictures of all the steps, but here is what I did:
1) Get a Styrofoam ball (I happened to have one on hand and it was kind of a large one, which is why my cupcake ended up jumbo).
2) Cover Styrofoam ball with double stick tape (or redline tape would work well too).
3) Pop in a movie and settle in on the couch, because wrapping the twine takes a while.
4) Starting at the top, wrap twine around ball (about 3/4ths of the way down).
5) Create liner. It wouldn't fit in a standard cupcake liner, so I made my own by scoring and accordion folding some paper. To make it taper at the bottom, I taped together every other pleat at the bottom.
6) Dig a small whole into the top with a craft knife for the candle. Roll a piece of paper into a tube and stick into hole. (In retrospect, I wish I had done a fatter tube, because the candle looks a little out of proportion.) Cut pompon off of trim to use as the flame, attached to top of candle.
7) Push brads into top to create a sprinkle effect.
8) Set the cupcake into the liner to see if you've put the twine on far enough so that the Styrofoam doesn't show. If not far enough, continue applying twine. Also at this point you can see if you're going to have to cut the bottom off your Styrofoam ball if it sticks out of the bottom of your liner.
9) Once you're sure that your cupcake is ready: Put quick dry adhesive around the inside of the liner (about a quarter of the way up from the bottom) and carefully set the cupcake into the liner. Arrange cupcake so the candle is going straight up and then lightly, but firmly, press the liner against the cupcake to adhere.
All supplies, except the yellow pompon are from the Follow Your Heart line which can be found at The Scrapbooking Studio.
