Hot Cocoa Challenge

The challenge this week on Heart 2 Heart challenges is to create a project with hot cocoa images or using the very trendy Cocoa color. I do love Close To My Heart's Cocoa ink and cardstock. It is a great base color for so many projects.

Lately I've been seeing several creations imitating the look of chalkboard. I thought I would give this technique a try with our cocoa cardstock rather than black. It worked pretty well, check it out!

Along with the Cocoa I pulled in some older neutral papers, Cranberry pleated ribbon and some darling Juniper mittens cut on the Cricut Artiste cartridge. Be sure to see the other Cocoa creations on the H2H blog!

Cupcake Cushion

Today is my Birthday so I decided to make myself a cupcake! It has layers of icing and a cherry on top! The best part is that this cupcake has zero calories!!

I recently picked up some of these pearl straight pins for another project and decided I needed a clever way to store them. I have seen this idea out there for a pin cushion. I used the fabulous Close To My Heart products to create this. I started with a cupcake liner base cut on the Artiste Cricut Cartridge. I glued a foam styrofoam ball to the inside. I then hot glued some tulip pleated ribbon onto the styrofoam working from the bottom to almost the very top. A sheer white ribbon fills in the tippy top with a wooden bead and rolled cardstock stem for the cherry on top! So cute and useful!