Simply B Stamps, 13 Days of Halloween Challenges -Day 5

So how are you liking these 13 days of Halloween Challenges?  Are you ready for Day 5??

This time we want to see spiders and cobwebs!

WHAT A WICKED WEB WE WEAVE

For those of you who follow my blog and know me through the FB, you will know that I am trying hard to steer away from cards at the moment and get messy with bigger projects.....

...... well this is no exception!

I have no idea at all why I decided to do this but I am so glad I have.

I have made a Mad Hatters Hat!!!

Yeap, made from scratch!!  This started life as one of my large cardboard pattern cutting mats from when I used to make wedding dresses!!  It was a fair amount of work and yes, it is huge!!!

I paper mached over the cardboard with black crepe paper then gave it a good coat of black spray paint.

I then covered it in black organza by hand sewing it to fit the shape of the cardboard base.  I used some fabulous black and silver spider covered organza to wrap around and make a band for it.

I used Spiderella from the Spooky Hollow digis.

I tucked this in the band, just as the Mad hatter has cards tucked in his!

I had to add some small creepy crawlies!!

And how about this for a spider?  I thought he was perfect for this hat.  Huge and silver! This sits right at the very back.  

So what do you think??  Spiders don't have to be creepy, they can be fun as well and I hope I have achieved that by doing something different. 

Don't forget the great prizes that we have up for grabs and to visit the challenge blog to see the other creepy crawlies that the girls have been playing with and to add your entry!

xxx

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ - Halloween