Lucky Clover Mini Cupcake Kit Card

🍀 This kit card creates a mini cupcake featuring a lucky 4-leaf clover and a golden Celtic-inspired plate. These cards are perfect for party favours or to give as keepsakes.

• Optimized for batch printing: mini size means more per plate!
• Snap-fit: no glue required
• No frame version: parts can be printed separately from the sprue
• No scissors: parts detach easily from the frame

Note: this is a second in a series of holiday themed cupcake kit cards. If you like these fun little kits and want to see more of them, please leave a like as it lets me know if I should continue the series 🥰

Quarter for scale. They're tiny! Gold filament is by CC3D. The rest is by Bambu (see Bill of Materials for specific colour/type).

⚠️ IMPORTANT Printing Information⚠️ 

• Small parts, choking hazard, may be difficult for little fingers to build. Recommended ages 7+ with supervision. 
   
• Please read “Printing Tips” first before batch printing: save yourself heartache by identifying fit issues before committing to a full plate.

🛠️ Assembly

The clover-shaped peg is what holds everything together. You should be able to feel it go all the way down before it clicks into place. It may resist a little but then it should go home. You'll know it worked because the peg won't be able to come out again. If the rest of the cupcake “wiggles” slightly, this is by design so as to accommodate flow differences across filament brands and types.

🧰 Printing Tips

How well a kit card fits together depends heavily on your machine, filament brand, and filament type/colour. I do my best to make models that assemble smoothly across a range of filaments, but sometimes tuning by the end-user (that’s you) may be required. 

• Print individual pieces first: use the colours you will be using and testing fit between them. This will help save you filament by identifying fit issues before committing to a full multi-colour plate.
• Adjusting fit: To tweak the fit between the parts, it may be necessary to adjust flow rate in small increments up or down for any troublesome colours. Note: I don't recommend using X/Y hole/contour compensation due to the small perimeters this model uses..
• Be careful not to break cards when removing from the plate. I designed them with easier tearaway connectors which can break prematurely, especially if you're not gentle when removing. Tips to avoid breakage:
  • Use a textured plate
  • Let the plate cool completely
  • Flex plate gently if they're still attached. Go slowly and bend in all directions until they pop off.

🖨️ Process Settings

These are the settings I used to prototype the model and create the print profiles. You can change them if you download the 3mfs.

🍀 About the Model

I'm having such a fun time creating these seasonal little cupcakes! Green being my favourite colour, I enjoyed modelling the clover even if it took me a few tries until I was happy with it. The Celtic-inspired interlace around the gold plate was likewise challenging but in a good way. Creating a seamless “knot” of intertwining threads is harder than it looks!

Should I do more of these cupcakes? Easter 🐰 maybe? If so, please leave a comment and let me know what cupcake you'd like to see next.

🥰 How to Support me

If you appreciate the work I did to bring this model to you, please consider supporting me on Ko-fi. Even a small tip will help offset the cost of prototyping filaments. Alternatively, a like or a boost is another easy way to say “hey, you don't entirely suck.”

⭐ Licensing

If you wish to sell my models, you may purchase licensing rights through my official Ko-fi page.

This model is shared using my own Personal-Use License which supplements (but does not replace) MakerWorld’s Standard Digital License. My license is fundamentally the same (no public remixes, no file sharing, no selling) but includes specific exceptions and allowances not covered by the Standard Digital License.

Licenses offered through third-party websites (e.g. Cubee3D) are not authorized and are not valid.