Cupcake Ornament Tutorial

Our tree was looking a little naked since I threw out all our old hand-me-down ornaments after Christmas last year. I was thinking about things that I liked that could maybe be an ornament for the tree. I have an Eeyore, sock monkey, Victoria's Secret Pink dog, photo of Kitty, etc. but nothing to remind me of all the yummy holiday foods I look forward to. So the cupcake ornament was born!

I took a bunch of different ideas I found online and combined them to make this one. To start out, I took a cupcake cup and placed it face down on some white fabric. I drew a circle that was about 1.5" bigger than the cup.
Then I cut out the circle and loosely sewed around the edge. The stitches are about .5" from the edge.
I didn't knot the end of the thread so I could pull both ends to create a little pouch.
I used some stuffing to fill the pouch until I liked the size and it fit well in the cup. Then I tied a knot with the thread to hold the stuffing in.
I found these berries at a craft store for 50 cents to use as cherries on the cupcakes.

I cut off a berry with a little wire left on the end. Using some metallic string, I tied a knot tightly around the berry and hot glued it to hold. Then I tied the ends at the top to use as the ornament hanger.
I placed the stuffed pouch in the cupcake cup and hot glued them together around the top edge of the cup.
Once the glue was dry, I added the cherry in the middle and got to work on the sprinkles. There's 2 ways to do the sprinkles depending on what will work better in your house. If you have young children or pets, skip down to the second method.

For this option, I took some silver stick pins and used them to attached sequins to the cupcake.
And the second method that's a little safer is to use the hot glue gun to glue sequins to the cupcake.
Here's my yummy cupcake hanging on the tree.
Hungry, anyone? :)