Cupcakes are a fun (and welcome!) addition to just about any party buffet, but it’s time to rethink how you serve them up at your next soiree. Below, you’ll learn how to add custom color and personality to plain white cupcake boxes simply by crafting pop up flower details to go on top. Read on for all the DIY details, and bonus points go to those who match their cupcake frosting to the fun floral stickers used, too!
Peel and stick a variety of flower stickers to individual sheets of coordinated colorful paper sheets, leaving at least an inch of space between the stickers.
Cut the flower stickers out of the paper sheets one by one, allowing for about a 1/4″ of the paper to show around the edges to create borders.
Cut one white paper sheet into strips about 3″ in length. Fold each into thirds, and then fold the two outside edges in half. The progression of this step is shown below in reverse order.
Refold the outside “arms” of the white paper strips under and in to create a rectangle shape. Cut and place pieces of double-sided tape on both the longer top and bottom edges of the rectangles to create a pop up foundation.
Press the bottom taped edge of the rectangle to the top of an assembled white cupcake box. Press a cut-out sticker flower to the top taped edge of the rectangle pop up foundation.
Repeat the steps and cluster pop up flowers in groups on top of more cupcake boxes. Finish and serve the completed DIY cupcake boxes at your next party buffet with things like metallic gold forks and pink beverage napkins.