Harley Quinn DIY Cake Topper

My friend from Sweet Tooth Cravings will occasionally ask me to make a cupcake topper or DIY cake topper. I made her a first birthday cake topper before and I even made little elf shoes for snowball cupcakes she made last Christmas. This time, she asked me to make a Harley Quinn themed cake topper. I have to admit, I had NO idea what to do, but I was up for the challenge.

The first thing I did was google Harley Quinn, because I was only familiar with the recent Suicide Squads movie version of her. I found some great comic book photos on a Google search and used one from Cartoon Bucket.

With my brother’s help, I decided on making the cake topper look like a set of fanned out playing cards. I designed the cards and printed them on white cardstock. Here is what I used.

Materials:

White Cardstock
Red Cardstock
Glue Stick
Scissors
Hot Glue and Glue Gun
Toothpicks

The person that requested the cake asked for it to say “Happy Birthday, Puddin”” on it, so for two of the cards I made them look like the back of a red playing card with a speech bubble (like in the comics). After designing and printing them, I cut out each card.

I used glue to fan out the cards, then glued the entire hand onto red cardstock paper. I then cut out around the edges so that the back would look finished. I used a little hot glue to glue in the two toothpicks.