Boo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spooky Blog hop and colour challenge with the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

 Hope that the header got your attention :) as today sees the next special challenge at the 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

now this was not going to be my turn but I sort of had to borrow it, as I just needed to use some new meecey purchases, so the theme is 

Spooky Sweet!!!!!!!!! Colour Challenge

the colours being

Orange, Purple, Lime Green and Black

with the Addition of a Special Blog hop!!!!!
details of blog hop below :)

and with our fabulous sponsor

One winner will get a $25 gift certificate from House-Mouse Designs

here is my creation, but do hop over  to the main challenge site to see the rest of the amazing inspiration from my sister meeces :) and enter the blog hop as there are some gorgeous pieces along the way for you to win.

Again this is photo heavy so you may want to grab yourselves a drink :)

I made a pumpkin, an idea I had a while ago, well actually when I was having coffee with Lols and Christine in Doncaster.

I will do the close ups first before letting you into the how I did it bit

The images are from a clear stamp pack, so versatile and lots of them

*House Mouse CLEAR Stamps HALLOWEEN CSHM047

from Simon Says Stamp, adorable so many of them

and here is how I created it

 blew up a balloon drew around the middle, then a circle for the front and then used my old newspapers and some PVA and did paper mache.  several layers but on day three when I went up to add more layers the balloon had died :(  it was strong enough to keep going, so told Matt I needed some bumps for the shaping so he squashed some toilet roll inners and cut them and we sellotaped them on and then I carried on covering with paper

I then trimmed it at the bottom and around the front and tidied it before giving it a coat of gesso and then I sprayed the inside a sandy yellow colour and the outer a bright orange. It was too bright so I used my TH vintage photo to tone it down a bit, before adding some poinsettia green flower tops for the stem.

I glued some grassy fronds from the cheapy shop around the outside and on the floor inside so it looked as if it was sat on the grass and then used some lovely ostrich feathers in orange and black to make those horrid stringy bits that are inside the pumpkin. 

The rest was just sticking my little meeces onto sticks etc to dress

Do hop over and join us for the challenge :)  and the HOP!!!!! 

okay so how is that hop working?, 
well here are the requirements
House Mouse Challenge Rules apply to win any of the prizes
Leave a comment on all DT blogs
You must be a follower of this blog
Please post the image in your side bar
You must be a follower of the House Mouse Challenge blog
and
You also need to add your creation for the theme 
and 
leave your comment on the challenge post to confirm you have completed the Hop!!
you can enter my candy using the linky below :)

Easy so

Just in case you get lost on the way here is the list of the DT for you

1. America Kuhn
2. Christine Craig
3. Dawn - October GDT
4. Dorte Kvist
5. Heather Gilfoy Bond
6. Kate Wiles (that's me)
7. Lori Barnett
8. Lorraine Aquilina (aka: "Lols")
9. Mary Giemza (Floater DT)
10. Natascha Banning
11. Stacy Morgan
12. Sue Drees
13. Sue Kment
14. Tracy Thompson
15. House-Mouse and Friends MC (Blog-Hop ends here)

Here is the candy you could win from my page

Don't forget, you too may submit your House-Mouse, Gruffies and Happy Hoppers creations directly to THE Official House-Mouse Designs site found HERE!  

I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave me such inspirational and kind comments, and this then allows me to hop on over and visit you in return.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

2 Sisters - Cute and Creepy

Allsorts Challenge - Autumn Colours
Challenge Up Your Life - Autumn/Halloween
Crafty Calendar - All things Spooky
Simon Says Stamp - Eerie Inspiration

Crafty Mess - Halloween
Crazy for Challenges - Orange black purple
Di's Digi Designs - Too Cute to Spook
Just Some Lines - Too Cute to Spook
My Sheri Crafts - Halloween
Sweet Stampin - Halloween
ATC's and Cards with Attitude - Halloween
Card Crafters Circle - Halloween
Crafts for Eternity - Pumpkin Spice
Crafty Catz - Halloween
Dilly Beans - Cute and Creepy
Fussy N Fancy - Anything Goes
Our Craft Lounge - Scary and Spooky
Simply Create Too - Pumpkins
Stampin for the Weekend - Something spooky
Heck of a Challenge - Spooktacular

hugs

xxxxx