Happy Tuesday All!

This evening I am going to share with you my very FIRST tutorial and it will be on - "How to Make Printable Cupcake Toppers in Photoshop". I wanted to share with you something you could "really" use and cupcake toppers seem to be the most requested item in my shop so I figured - why not share with you a quick tutorial on how to make your own personalized toppers!

If you're unfamiliar with cupcake toppers and the many uses for them visit here. Cupcake toppers can be styled/designed in many variations such as: printable (what we're going to learn how to do this evening), diecut, handmade (using stickers/objects), etc.

Before deciding to create this tutorial I browsed around the web to research the tutorials out there .... although there are many - I really didn't see any that offered a BLANK template to walk you through the process and s-p-e-l-l-e-d it out for you. So, hopefully I am able to provide to you a quick and easy way to create your own precious cupcake toppers.

Let's jump right into it...

In order to follow this tutorial, you will first need to download the template from here. When you open the .pdf document the entire screen will be white (it will look as if there is absolutely nothing there). In order to edit this template and view the layers you will need to open it up in a editing software such as Photoshop - here I am using CS3. If you do not have Photoshop, you can download a free trial here.

1. Open your blank template in Photoshop. I've caused a little confusion with the initial template - the circles will no longer be "white" and have been changed to black. If you would like to change the color of the circles from black go to the MENU BAR > LAYER > LAYER STYLE > COLOR OVERLAY and choose your color (easy peasy!)