Fall Felt Board Craft

Oh, the fun of felt material!! You can do so many things with it. This is my latest fall decor attempt...and it is multipurpose....not only is it decoration, it is interactive. Love it!! Here's what I did:

With a little help from some heat-and-bond and an old dry-erase calendar:

I ironed that felt right onto it. I used some brown for dirt/grass and some blue for the sky. 

Give your dirt a little depth and add some gently rolling hills. Then, I started making the felt characters!! Munchkin was a wake and involved in the process, so of course this wasn't just a fall-themed project....it was a DINOSAUR fall-themed craft. They find their way into a lot of our crafts. :-) We got pumpkins......and, a VOLCANO!!!!

Where would the Great Valley be without Littlefoot and Petrie?? Nowhere. That's right. 

That yellow swirling vortex (thanks hubby for naming it so *aptly*) is actually a round hay bale. You know you see it. Just not necessarily very well. 

(Kinda looks like one of sir pumpkins eyes is getting pulled into the not-a-vortex, but that's beside the point)

Witches are essential. 

A little tangerinish paint for the frame and there you have it!! The perfect interactive fall decoration.

I'm sharing this project at these delicious linky parties:
Three Or More Tuesdays
Get Your Craft On
Halloween Party: While He Was Napping
Frugalicious Friday

 DIY Fall Festival

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!!

I linked up to these parties, check them out and be Inspired!!
Frugalicious Friday 

DIY Fall Festival

Works For Me Wednesday