Operation 60th Anniversary Cake Topper

About a week and a half ago, Brian's Grandma asked me to create a cake topper for their 60th anniversary.  I have never in my life created a cake topper, mind you, but I'm always up for a challenge and I love to get creative, so I thought, 'what the hey, of course I'll do it!'.  I was given free reign with any ideas that I came up with.  The only thing I was told was that the colors were purple and white.  As I started brainstorming, I came up with a few ideas and ultimately decided that while I didn't have anything really set in stone, and I wasn't quite sure how all of these ideas would blend together, I would just get started and figure it out along the way.  And figured it out is what we did!  (Yes, Brian helped!)

I started by gathering a few supplies: styrofoam, a plastic top, moss, and sticks from our very own yard.

Moss 'n sticks.

Then, I covered the styrofoam that I glued to the plastic top with the few different types of moss that I bought.  (I wasn't sure if you could just stick styrofoam on top of icing, so I decided to play it safe!)


Moss covered styrofoam.


Then, I added two white paper flowers and started glueing together some of the sticks that I found and cut:

White paper flowers 'n sticks.

After I let the styrofoam, plastic top, moss, flowers, 'n sticks dry for a few hours, I took a card that I had made previously and started working on the subjects of the cake topper.

One of my fav cards!

Finally, I added a banner (compliments to Brian for coming up with the 'flag' idea.  Originally it was a cut out '6o', but the banner really adds so much, and was much easier to cut out!)

Voilà!


Last, but certainly not least, we added said topper to the cake the day of the celebration:



And it fit wonderfully!


I was extremely pleased with how it turned out and had a lot of fun making it.  Plus, it seemed Brian's grandparents were happy with it as well!

The cake topper with the honorees.



Operation 60th Anniversary Cake Topper was definitely a success!



Happy wonderful 60th Anniversary, Morris & Marilyn!