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One basic topper design with many colour scheme variations! These toppers are really easy to make on a large scale and so are perfect for wedding stationery. Make matching Wedding, Evening, Order of Service, Thank You cards and even Menus by using these toppers on pearlised card blanks with appropriate wedding banners. If you don’t want to use the idea for wedding cards then they will work very well for Valentine’s cards as well. Pictured here are two finished cards using a couple of the toppers, further down are pictures of 12 variations of the topper.

Gold/Ivory/Burgundy Wedding Card #1

These are the various items used to make these toppers:

Obviously not all of the above items are used on every topper, simply select the card/paper and heart colour of your choice to suit your wedding stationery colour scheme.

Use the super duper square and super square craft punches to punch out backing squares from the card/paper types you have chosen.

Important Tip: If you have chosen Mulberry tissue paper for one or both of your backing layer squares, do not try to punch through it as it is as the punch will not cut through it cleanly and it may tear as it is too thin. Simply place the sheet of Mulberry tissue paper between two sheets of ordinary plain paper like printer paper and then punch through all of the layers for a clean cut.

Once you have punched all of your squares layer the smaller super squares on top of the larger super duper squares and secure them either with craft glue or with sticky foam pads for a raised 3D look.

Stick the heart of the colour of your choice onto the centre of the two squares again using craft glue or sticky foam pads.

Shown below are some suggested colour choices within the dark red, gold and ivory colour scheme that we have chosen here. Click on each picture for a larger view and a description of the card/paper types and all colours used.

Look out for Silver Modern Heart Toppers coming soon.

Topper/Card Ideas by Janine

I find that cards for men are often harder to come up with new ideas for, so you may well find that these card topper ideas for cards for DAD may come in really useful whether you want to make just one card or a whole batch.

Craft punches allow you to make your own card shapes in the colours and paper or card types of your choice and this gives you greater versatility with your card making and craft projects.

A complete list of the items used to make these various card toppers is listed below:

Woodware super duper square punch
Woodware super star punch
Woodware super gift tag punch
Pearlised card – Gold, Silver, Rioja Red, Evergreen, Regal Blue & Ivory
Gold glitter card
‘DAD’ wording gold and/or ‘DAD’ wording silver
Burgundy ribbon bows, green ribbon bows, silver ribbon bows & gold ribbon bows
1.5cm Padded Material Stars – Metallic Gold & 1.5cm Padded Material Stars – Metallic Silver
Red and gold brads from – Woodware Mini Round Brads – Christmas Colours
Sticky foam pads & craft glue

The topper backing squares are made by punching out squares from the pearlised card with the super duper square craft punch. Then gift tag and star shapes are punched out with the super gift tag and super star shape craft punches. These shapes are then are layered onto the backing square shapes using sticky foam pads for a lovely three dimensional look. The ‘DAD’ wording and additional embellishments are attached using craft glue.

Shown below are some topper ideas, click on any individual picture for a larger image and a description of the colours and embellishment types used.