To make the cupcakes look steampunk, I've made cute little steampunk people, using the website, tektek, which is for creating sample avatars for Gaia Online.
Gaia Dream Avatar Maker
I saved each avatar picture to the computer desk top, then moved them to a Word document, so that I could print off a whole page full onto white card stock.
A couple of the designs I chose were made by other people, and some were avatars I made for the members of our family last year.
Next, I traced a gear shape onto card stock and cut out a number of "gears" equal to the number of avatar pictures I have.
If you print this next picture out as a full page on card stock, it should work perfectly, and save you the trouble of tracing one template over and over (which is what I actually did).
I used metallic colored spray paint (leftover from other projects) to paint both sides of the paper gears.
When the paint was dry, I placed a small canning jar lid over each avatar and traced around the inside edge of the lid with a pencil, to make a circular cutting line. Then cut out all the circles and glued them to the "gears".
If you want to make these for a more mature party, you can use old, copyright free images found on-line.
The final touch is to add the stick. This is just a 4-inch bamboo skewer, attached to the back of the "gear" with a single line of hot glue.
As soon as the hot glue is dry, which is a matter of minutes, the picks are ready to use.
The other cupcake decorating item that I plan to use, just arrived in the mail today. They are laser cut cupcake wrappers, made by a craftsperson on Etsy.
Geekinesis, Laser Cut Cupcake Wrappers on Etsy
This is all completely brilliant!! My mom is throwing a Steampunk themed party for her boyfriend and we have been scouring the internet for ideas.
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