Cupcake Hair Clip

My daughter's 7th birthday is December 21st so I made her a cupcake hair clip for her cupcake decorating party. Since I cannot draw to save my life I used my Cricut and the Sweet Treats cartridge to cut out a little cupcake shape. I set the dial size to 1 3/4".  Cut two the same size.

I cut 5 pieces of brown 3/8" ribbon to wrap around the bottom of the cupcake. These were 1 1/2".

Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the completely covered front, but the 5th piece of brown went in the middle after the side pieces were added. Here is a picture of the back.

I used a baking spoon to measure out my pink pieces. Make sure you give yourself plenty of ribbon to overlap the pieces and to not totally burn yourself with the hot glue (speaking from experience here). Mine ended up being 1 3/4" long.

 Here it is all wrapped. Take it off the spoon right away in case some of the glue leaked causing your ribbon to stick to the spoon. Yup, experience again.

 I started by adding the pieces to the outside perimeter placing them in different directions. Then I filled in the middle, then the bottom. Don't be afraid to smoosh them together a bit to hide the paper underneath.

 I felt it needed some dimension and I needed to hide some more of the paper so I cut three more pieces to place on top of the bottom layer. I ended up using 1 pink loops to cover this cupcake.  Add some bling. Line your alligator clip with a piece of 4 1/2" ribbon.

 I also glued the second cupcake cutout over the back to hide my ribbon. It just made a cleaner cupcake.

 Finished! Hope she likes it.