This quick Valentine craft can be used as a cake topper for a Valentine’s Day dessert, or you can cut the wires off to make a hanging heart.
This took me 15 minutes to do, so even if you work slowly it shouldn’t take more than half an hour or so.

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Materials needed.
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- Wired paper flowers
- 16″ long 18 Gauge floral wire
- Plastic drinking straw
- Needle nose pliers with wire cutter
(optional)
You can use a thinner floral wire if you have to, but 18 gauge is best for sturdiness.

Shape the heart.

Bend the wire in the center and shape it into a heart the size that you want the finished topper to be. Leave a few inches on each end to twist together to create the stick that will go into the cake.
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Flowers to use.

Get the flowers ready by tearing the paper off of the stems to separate them. If you only have paper flowers that don’t have wire stems you can do this using hot glue to attach them, but the wires are going to be a lot easier and less messy.
Start attaching the flowers.

Starting at the top V part of the heart, attach the flowers to the wire by wrapping the wire on the flowers around the wire heart. Wrap the entire wire tightly so that the stems are attached securely.
I thought about cutting the stems shorter, which you could do, but leaving them longer is more secure in the long run.
I also started at the bottom of the heart to begin with, but I realized that it would probably be easier to start at the top center. (Just wanted to explain why there’s an extra flower in some of the photos!)
Trim leaves.

If you want to cut off the leaves at any point, you can do that with the wire cutter on the pliers. I think it’s better to leave them on, though, since they can fill in any gaps between the flowers.
Keep wiring.

Work along the wire and keep attaching the flowers. put the base of the flowers right on the heart wire next to the previous one as you work.
Fill in the back if you want to.

If you want to fill in the back, too, do that as you do the front, just do front, back, front, back,
If you don’t add flowers to the back (I didn’t) then you’ll have the back looking like this with the wires showing. This will work fine if the cake is going to be up against a wall, but if it will be out somewhere that people can walk around it and see the back, you might want to cover the back, too.
One side done.

When you finish one side, start working out the other way on the other side. Continue wrapping the wires until you get all the way to the bottom, then wrap the wires around the stem.
Bend the stem.

Bend the bottom wire of the stem up to keep the end from poking anyone.
Finished heart shape.

Here’s the finished heart topper, but you can’t stick wires directly into cake because of food safety. So you need to put some kind of barrier around it,
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Plastic straw.

This is where a plastic straw comes in handy. I used these to encase floral wires all the time when I did custom wedding cakes.
Cut about 3″ of straw. Make it a little longer than the wires.
Finishing the topper.

Insert the wires on the topper into the straw. You might need to wrap them a little tighter or press them with the pliers to thin out the stem to get them to fit, depending on how wide the straw is. You want it to be pretty tight so that the wires stay in the straw.
Finished topper.

Insert the topper into your cake!
If you want to make this into a hanging heart, you can cut the stem wires off a little shorter, then wrap them back up the V part of the heart wire before adding the flowers.
Add a ribbon to the center top part of the heart to make a hanger. For that kind of design you should cover both the front and the back of the heart with flowers.