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            • Ngilgi Cave
          • Pemberton
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            • Fremantle Prison
            • Government House Perth
            • Kings Park
            • Rainbow Sea Containers
          • Rottnest Island >
            • Bathurst Lighthouse
            • Bickley Battery Heritage Trail
            • Catherine Bay
            • Geordie Bay
            • Holy Trinity Church
            • Lomas Cottage
            • Parakeet Bay
            • Quokkas
            • Rottnest Chapel
            • Rottnest Ferry
            • Rottnest Photos
            • Salt Lakes
            • Salt Stores
            • The Basin
            • The Rottnest Quod
            • Thomson Bay
            • Wadjemup Lighthouse
            • West End
          • Waychinicup
          • Williams Bay National Park
      • Cambodia >
        • Angkor Silk Farm, Siem Reap
        • Cambodian Animals
        • Cambodian Roads
        • Siem Reap Markets
        • Temples of Siem Reap and Surrounds
        • Tonle Sap Lake
        • Motorbikes
      • China >
        • Roads
        • Farms
        • China - General
        • Hong Kong
      • India >
        • The Red Fort
        • The Streets and Roads of India
        • The Taj Mahal
      • Indonesia - Bali
      • Japan >
        • Bullet Train
        • Togakushi >
          • Lower Togakushi Shrine
          • Middle Togakushi Shrine
          • Upper Togakushi Shrine
          • Togakushi and Surrounds
      • Malaysia >
        • Mount Ophir
        • Rider's Lodge, Johor
        • Sibu Island
      • New Zealand >
        • Arrowtown
        • Coronet Peak
        • Glenorchy
        • Queenstown
        • The Remarkables
      • Singapore >
        • ArtScience Museum, Singapore
        • China Town
        • Clarke Quay
        • Gardens by the Bay
        • Helix Bridge
        • Jurong Bird Park
        • Henderson waves
        • MacRitchie Reservoir
        • Marina Bay Sands
        • Merlion
        • MICA Building
        • Pasir Ris Kids Kampong
        • Sentosa Island
        • Singapore Botanical Gardens
        • Singapore's Cityscape
        • Singapore Flyer
        • Singapore Japanese and Chinese Gardens
        • Singapore Zoo
        • Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
        • The Dragon Kiln
        • The Esplanade
        • The Fullerton
        • The Noodle Man
      • Thailand >
        • Phuket
        • Rawa Island, Krabi
      • United Kingdom
    • Birds >
      • Bird Nests
      • Bittern
      • Brolgas
      • Chickens
      • Cormorant
      • Curlews
      • Ducks
      • Eastern Koel
      • Emus
      • Fairy Wren
      • Flamingos
      • Geese
      • Herons
      • Honeyeater
      • Ibis
      • King Fishers
      • Kites
      • Kookaburras
      • Magpies
      • Moorhen
      • Myna Birds
      • Osprey
      • Ostriches
      • Owls
      • Pacific Baza
      • Pacific Gull
      • Other Parrots
      • Peacocks
      • Pelicans
      • Penguins
      • Pigeons
      • Purple Swamphen
      • Rainbow Lorikeet
      • Seagulls
      • Shrike-Thrush
      • Spoonbill
      • Storks
      • Sunbird
      • Swallows
      • Swans
      • Treecreeper
      • Turkeys
      • Wattle Birds
      • Weaver Bird Nests
      • Willie Wagtail
      • Yellow Eastern Robin
    • Animals >
      • Antelope
      • Bats
      • Bears
      • Buffalo
      • Camels
      • Cattle
      • Deer
      • Dogs
      • Giraffes
      • Horses
      • Kangaroos and Wallabies
      • Koalas
      • Lemurs
      • Lions
      • Llamas
      • Meerkats
      • Mongoose
      • Otters
      • Platypus
      • Possums
      • Primates >
        • Orangutangs
        • Baboon
        • Cotton Top Tamarin
        • Chimpanzee
        • Gibbons
        • Monkeys
      • Quokkas
      • Rabbits
      • Rhinoceros
      • Seals
      • Sheep
      • Sloths
      • Snails
      • Squirrels
      • Tigers
      • Wombats
      • Zebras
    • Insects and Spiders >
      • Ants
      • Bees
      • Beetles
      • Butterflies
      • Caterpillars
      • Dragonflies and Damselflies
      • Exoskeletons
      • Flies
      • Froghopper
      • Grasshoppers and Locusts
      • Hover Flies
      • Millipedes
      • Moths
      • Scale Insects
      • Spiders
      • Squash Bug
    • Ocean and Water Life >
      • Anemones
      • Corals
      • Crabs
      • Fish
      • Jellyfish
      • Dolphins
      • Lugworm
      • Sea Star
    • Lichens
    • Plants - Flowers, Trees, Shrubs >
      • Acacia
      • Aloe
      • Artichoke
      • Banana Flowers
      • Banksia Flowers >
        • Banksia Marginata
      • Beetroot
      • Bell flower hyacinth orchid (Dipodium campanulatum)
      • Berries and Seed Pods
      • Blackberries
      • Blue Rottnest Island Daisy
      • Boronia
      • Bottlebrush
      • Brackens and Ferns
      • Cannonball Tree
      • Canola
      • Cacti and Succculents
      • Camellia
      • Cape Dandelion
      • Carnivorous Plants
      • Clover
      • Convolvulus
      • Creepers, Vines and Tendrils
      • Dandelions
      • Daucus Carota
      • Dog's Bane
      • Donkey Orchid
      • Echium
      • Erigeron Daisy
      • Eucalyptus
      • Everlasting Daisy
      • Figs
      • Frangipani
      • Fruit Tree Flowers
      • Ginger
      • Grasses and Rushes
      • Iris
      • Kangaroo Paw
      • Lavender
      • Loropetalum
      • Lotus Flowers
      • Onions
      • Oranges
      • Orchids at the Singapore Botanical Gardes
      • Osteospermum
      • Other Flowers
      • Paperbarks
      • Parsley
      • Passionfruit
      • Peace Lily
      • Photinia
      • Pine Trees
      • Polygala Sweet Pea Shrub
      • Poppy Tree
      • Proteas
      • Pyrorchis Orchid
      • Ribbon Pea
      • Roses
      • Salvia
      • Shasta Daisy
      • Soursob
      • Statice
      • Strawberries
      • Swan River Daisy
      • Talibot Pine
      • Tembusu Tree
      • Thistles
      • Thorns
      • Tomatoes
      • Tree canopies, bark and leaves
      • Tulips
      • Veined Helmet Orchid
      • Water Lilies
    • Fungi >
      • Amanita muscaria
      • Amanita princeps
      • Austropaxillus infundibuliformis
      • Boletellus obscurecoccineus
      • Cortinarius acheri
      • Cortinarius austrovenetus
      • Cortinarius rotundisporus
      • Earth Stars
      • Entoloma moongum
      • Entoloma rodwayi
      • Gymnopilus allantopus
      • Hygrocybe chromolimonea
      • Hygrocybe miniata
      • Lactarius eucalypti
      • Lycoperdon pyriforme
      • Lycoperdon scabrum
      • Mycena albidofusca
      • Mycena epipterygia
      • Mycena toyerlaricola
      • Mycena viscidocruenta
      • Oudemansiella gigaspora
      • Phaeolus schweinitzii
      • Phleopus marginatus
      • Pisolithus arhizus
      • Postia lactea
      • Ramaria
      • Scleroderma cepa
      • Trametes coccinea
    • Mosses
    • Reptiles and Amphibians >
      • Amphibians
      • Basilisks
      • Bearded Dragons
      • Central Netted Dragon
      • Chameleon
      • Changable Lizard
      • Crocodiles and Alligators
      • Eastern Water Dragon
      • Geckos
      • Iguanas
      • Skinks
      • Snakes
      • Tortoises and Turtles
      • Water Monitors
    • More Photos >
      • Agfa Clack Camera
      • Aircraft
      • Airplane Contrails
      • Autumn Leaves
      • Beads
      • Birthday candles
      • Cranes
      • Dew and Water Droplets
      • Driving and Roads
      • Fire Pit
      • Food and Drink
      • Hay Bales
      • Ideal Doll Corp Kissy Doll
      • Kodak Brownie Camera
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        • Minifigure Display Case
        • Olivia's Newborn Foal 41003
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        • Space Scooter 6801
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Cup Cake Birthday Card
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Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Inside the card, the middle cupcake pops-up in front of the recipe
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
This cupcake Happy Birthday card has a quick and yummy cupcake recipe inside and the middle cupcake on the inside floats off the page when the card is opened. 

Note that all the templates are available in either pdf or jpg and are A4 size. Choose whichever form suits you best.
Materials Required:

2 pieces of White A4 Card (for base card and to create the pop-up cupcake inside the card)
Coloured A4 Card in chosen colours for the cupcake cases & tops, candles, flames, and lettering
Printer
Double sided sticky tape. Several different thicknesses, including thin tape will be useful.
Ink pad (ideally a darker shade of the colour chosen for the cupcake tops)
Sponge
Craft knife
Scissors
Scoring tool. A ball point pen that has run out of ink will work well too.
​Sticky tape
Sticker maker (optional)
Tweezers (optional)
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Multi-Size Double Sided Tape (6 Rolls, 4 Sizes,192 Yards)
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Selizo 5 Pcs Embossing Stylus Tools / Scoring Pen
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Paper Creaser
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Xyron Create-A-Sticker, Mini, 2.5” Sticker Machine
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X-Acto No 1 Precision Knife 
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​Instructions:
1. Create the Base Card:
​Print out the Cupcakes Recipe template onto the white A4 base card using either of the templates below (jpg or pdf)
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Template
_cupcakes_recipe_template.pdf
File Size: 27 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Fold the A4 card in half to make the base card.
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Base card ready to go
​2. Print out the cupcake cases template (below) onto the BACK side of your card, and cut them out .
​I used a silver card for my cupcake cases.
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Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Template
cupcake cases template.pdf
File Size: 12 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

3. Print our the cake tops (template below) onto the BACK side of your card, and cut them out.
​I used a light pink card for my cake tops.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Template
cupcake_tops_template.pdf
File Size: 11 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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4. Print the Candles template (below) onto 3 pieces of A4 card - one for the candle stems, and two others for the candle flames, onto the BACK side of your card. Cut out the candle stems and flame pieces from their respective pieces of card.
I used light blue for the stems, and orange & yellow for the flames.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Template
_candles_template.pdf
File Size: 13 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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5. Print out the reversed  "Happy Birthday " lettering onto the BACK side of your card (template below). Cut out your chosen combination of upper and lower case letters.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Template
reversed_lettering_template.pdf
File Size: 364 kb
File Type: pdf
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6. Assemble the six cupcakes.

First place double sided sticky tape along the lower edge of the FRONT of the cupcake top. You only want about 2-3mm of tape on the bottom, so if your tape is wider than this, apply it with the extra tape hanging off the bottom, peel off the protective layer and then fold the tape back on itself .

Align the cupcake cases over the cupcake tops so that the edges are meeting, then press them down to adhere onto the top.
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Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
7. Sponge a matching ink colour around the tops of the cupcakes.
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8. Arrange all the pieces for the lettering and three of the cupcakes onto the base card until you have them sitting as you would like them. Don't stick them down yet.

I highly recommend that you take a photo of your layout one your phone so that you can refer back to it if required. This is especially handy when you get around to sticking down the letters.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
9. Start sticking down the cupcake pieces one by one. Do this one cupcake at a time, so that you don't lose your positioning of each piece.
​ First the candle stems, then the cupcake over that, followed by the flames.

​Use double sided tape or glue for this.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
First the candle stem is glued into place.
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Place double sided tape on the back of the cupcake.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
I used tweezers to help position the pieces.
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Double sided tape on the back of the larger flame piece
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
The larger flame piece is stuck down, using tweezers to position it.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Double sided tape on the back of the smaller flame piece
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
The smaller piece of the flame is stuck into place. Again using tweezers for positioning it.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
The three cupcakes have been stuck down onto the card
10. Stick down the "Happy Birthday" lettering one word at a time.
I used a sticker maker for this.

This is where the photo you took of the positioning will be handy, especially if you use a sticker maker and need to take off several letters at a time. 

If you are using double sided tape or glue for the letters, adhere them one at a time This will make the positioning of the letters easier.
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Putting the letters onto a sticker maker
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The letters out of the sticker maker and ready to go
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Carefully position the letters, using your photo as a guide
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
"Happy" has been adhered, now to stick down "Birthday"
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
The front of the card is finished
The inside of the card is next...
11. Now  print out the template (below) for the floating cupcake on the inside of the card onto white card.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
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Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
12. Cut out the pop-up template
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13. Score along the dotted lines to allow for precise and easy folding - you will need to score  across the centre, and at each end of the centre tab.
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14. Cut down each side of the centre tab, along the solid line.
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15. Fold the pop-up template in half, pushing the pop-up tab through to the other side. Fold it as shown in the photo (with the dotted line on top) so that the printed lines will not be seen in the finished card.
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16. Stick the pop-up into place using double sided tape.

Position the tape as shown on the pop-up, then stick the pop-up in to the card, positioning it as shown in the photo. It is important that it sits firmly against the back of the card with the fold line of the pop-up firmly back against the fold line of the base card.

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Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
17. Assemble the floating cupcake.

Firstly use sticky tape (not double sided) to attach the candle stem to the cupcake, as shown.

Using double sided tape (or glue) attach the flame to the top of the candle stem. Make sure that no sticky is protruding at the back by putting the double sided tape onto the front of the candle stem, and then placing the flame on top of this.

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Attach the candle stem using sticky tape
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Candle stem attached
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Double sided tape is put onto the front of the candle stem. Be sure to fold over any overhang once you have peeled the paper of the double sided tape.
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Position the flame onto the candle stem. Using tweezers makes this easier.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
The flame is attached.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Adhere the middle piece of the flame.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Finished floating cupcake
18. Attach the floating cupcake

First place double sided tape on the front of the pop-up tab, as shown.

Then stick the floating cupcake onto tab.
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Double sided tape on the front of the pop-up tab
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
The floating cupcake in place
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The floating cupcake viewed from above
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The floating cupcake viewed from the side
19. Work out your desired positioning of the last two cupcakes inside the card.

Stick the final two cupcakes into place using the same method as the front of the card: candle stem, followed by cupcake, and then flames.
Cupcake Happy Birthday Card with Recipe and pop-up cupcake inside. Free printable templates and detailed instructions included.
Final two cupcakes in position
That's it, all finished :)
​Enjoy
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