St. Pats Cricut Cupcake Decorations

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Laptop or Computer
• Cricut Explore
• Ink Jet Printer (for the print/cut wrap)
• Standard Grip Cricut Mat 12"x 12"
• Cricut Spatula
• Cardstock, Various Colors
• Matte or Glossy Cardstock, White
• Metallic Cardstock
• Glitter Cardstock
• Felt, White
• Hot Glue
• Glue Tape Runner
• Tape
• Foam Mounts
• Gold String
• Chocolate Shamrock Mold
• Chocolate Melts
• Edible Color Mist Spray
• Icing
• Cupcakes
• Tooth Picks
• Sprinkles
• Wilton Gold Cake Sequins

DIRECTIONS:

GLITTER SHAMROCK CUPCAKE WRAP WITH RAINBOW CUPCAKE TOPPER

1. Open Design Space and start on a new canvas. Insert Segmental Arch from shapes icon (#M2AAB3E20), Shamrocks (#M13C894C3), Cloud (#MCDD5FDA), Pot of Gold (#M3262548E), Unicorn with Rainbows and Sparkles Cupcake Wrap (#M284C48A5).
2. In the layers panel select the eye icon to hide the unicorn rainbow drawing. This leaves you with the cupcake wrap only. Size wrap to approx 8"x 3". Duplicate the shamrocks image 5 times, and place shamrock images spread over the wrap. Use program to highlight entire wrap with shamrock images spread out on top and select "slice." Change the color of the wrap to gold or your choice cardstock color.
3. In the layers panel select the eye icon and hide the gold on the pot of gold. Size your pot of gold to approx 1"x1" change the color to black. Size your segmental arch to approx 1.17"x 0.384" and duplicate 5 times and change each arch to a different color (red, orange, yellow, green and blue).
4. Size your cloud image, go to contour and remove face on cloud, change size to approx 0.8"x 0.6" and change color to white. Align your pot of gold, rainbow arches, and cloud together to form image
5. Highlight over the new image and duplicate.
6. On the duplicated image, highlight and select weld, this new welded image will be your base when glaring together the pot of gold with rainbow and cloud. Change base cupcake topper color to white.
7. Cut with the cricut, follow on screen instructions changing paper according to color. Cut using material type cardstock (for intricate cuts).
8. Peel the mat away from the cards stock so it doesn't curl or use cricut spatula. Using glue tape, first glue the rainbow arches on the base, second the pot of gold over the Botton edges of rainbow, and last the cloud over the top edges of the rainbow. Use shamrock from cupcake wrap to glue onto the pot of gold. Tie gold string around pot of gold. Hot glue or tape a toothpick to the back of the base. Assemble cupcake wrap placing edge into slit.
9. Bake cupcakes, Ice tops, and decorate with wilton gold cake sequins.

LARGE SHAMROCK CUPCAKE WRAP WITH LUCKY CUPCAKE TOPPER

1. Open Design Space and start a new canvas. Insert St. Patricks Day Cupcake Wrapper (#MA06C4). Insert text and type Lucky, change font to DTC October Daylight. Move letters if needed to they are all touching edges, and weld together. Size to 2"x0.8" and change color to your cardstock color
2. Cut with the cricut and follow on screen instructions. Peel mat away from cardstock so it doesn't rip or curl. Hot glue or tape toothpick to the back of the word Lucky. Assemble wrap by glue taping the outer large shamrock to the inner wrap and connect the tab into the slit.
3. Melt chocolate over a double boil pan or in microwave 1 minute at a time, pour into shamrock mold and put in fridge for 10 minutes.
4. Bake cupcakes, Ice tops, spray icing with color mist lightly, insert chocolate shamrock mold, and insert Lucky cupcake topper infant of chocolate shamrock, lightly sprinkle.

PRINT/CUT SHAMROCK DESIGN CUPCAKE WRAP AND MATCHING CUPCAKE TOPPER

1. Open Design Space and start a new canvas.
2. Insert Shamrock (#MC4777D), Ballerina Cupcake Wrap (#M27ED6ED2) size 8"x2.8" and Scalloped Circle (#M2AAB3DEE) size 1.8"x1.8". In the layers panel select the eye icon to hide ballerina draw art Change wrap color to dark green. Duplicate shamrock 6 times and change color to white. Hide the background color layer of the shamrock. Size 5 shamrocks to 1.5"x1.3" and place over the wrap, using the rotating arrow to move shamrock around to fit on the arch of the wrap. Highlight entire wrap with shamrocks over top and select Flatten. With the 6th shamrock change the background color to the same dark green and the lines of the shamrock to white. Highlight the single shamrock and size to 1"x1" and select flatten. Cut with the cricut, and change paper color according to your cardstock.
3. This is a print/cut wrap and topper so you will first be directed to print. After it prints you will place on mat and make the cut. After all print/cut and cuts have been made peel mat away from paper so it doesn't rip or curl. Place shamrock onto scallop circle using a foam mount and hot glue or tape toothpick to the back. Assemble wrap by placing the tab into the slit.
4. Bake cupcakes, Ice tops, and decorate with sprinkles lightly.

JOANN HACKS:

• If making multiple cupcake toppers and wraps, highlight over entire topper or wrap and duplicate as many times as needed.
• You can only do a print/cut with white paper. For cupcakes wrappers, the best is a 100lb+ cardstock that is a matte or glossy finish so your color prints bright.
• After cupcake wraps are cut and off of the mat, use a thick marker to slowly roll the wrap around. This will help the wrap stay smooth and connect into the insert easily. It also helps the paper not get bent especially if you are using a thick glitter cardstock.
• If you have a cricut maker you can cut the cloud out of white felt, or with the cricut explore use the paper cloud and trace over felt and hand cut cloud to give your topper a more 2D look to the cloud.