Black Cats Halloween Craft

You never know what you're going to find at a Rummage sale. It's so fun to paw through all the random pieces of someone else junk to find some crafty inspiration. Well, a recent rummage sale gave me the perfect spooky inspiration for my Halloween mantle: Cats. This rummage sale was *filled* with cat memorabilia. You couldn't escape it. 

Seeing as I'm not incredible fond of these untrainable, self-absorbed, toxic pooping, vomitous scags  sweet creatures, I found the rummage sale to be slightly unsettling. Then my mind turned to Halloween....and I came up with an idea. I collected up a selection of random porcelain cats.

And, spray painted them black. 

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden

A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful of dark treacle, and melted under a gate.

~Elizabeth Lemarchand

I'm really excited to show you the rest of my mantle!!

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Black Halloween Cat Craft: Mean Kitteh.

Oh NOES!! Mean Kitteh!!

I have to admit, I find a certain hilarity in Lolcats. :-) Don't tell me you don't....you know you do (even just a bit). So, I named this cat the Mean Kitteh in honor of all those misunderstood kitteh's on teh interwebs. Wanna make him??

Supplies:

• Feather Mask
• Thin Styrofoam
• Black Paint
• Mod Podge
• Fine Silver Glitter
• Coffee Filter
• Hot Glue
• Flower foam insert
• My mothers earrings (errr....you're on your own on this one. Maybe your mothers earrings?)
• Floral Wire
• Gold Wire
• White Paper
• Duco cement

~ Hollow out floral foam (I used a knife and spoon):

~Trim mask like this. Also, cut of the small feathered side pieces (those will go on the tail).

~Using an exacto knife, trim a piece of this foam into the shape of a cat hissing, minus the head. I cut some jagged edges around all the edges.

~Hot glue the larger feathered piece on the back, the smaller pieces on the tail and the floral foam onto the head. Paint them black.

 ~Give them a coat of mod podge and while it's still wet, dust the silver glitter onto every part of it. 

~For the eyes I used some oval shaped metal earrings and some yellow metal for the iris. For the nose, I used another earring piece. I hot glue them onto the face.

~Paint 6 pieces of green floral wire black (with some glitter mixed in). 

~Take a piece if gold wire and make it into a mouth shape. Cut two tiny slivers of white paper to be the sharp teeth. Use some duco cement or something similar to attach them to the face.

~Shape the black floral wires into whiskers and stick them through the floral foam on the head. Hot glue them into place from the inside of the head shape. 

~For the tag, I taped some coffee filter onto some 8x11" printer paper. I found a font I liked and printed out some different versions. Then I trimmed out the one I like with some zig zag scissors. 

~Add a piece of gold wire and hot glue it to the paper. Then stick that wire into the back of the kitteh (sorry kitteh). 

You're Done!!

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