Hello, friends! It’s Day 4 of the 2019 Cat Lovers Hop and I’ve stopped in this morning to share another card with you! If you’re a fellow cat lover, be sure to come on over and play – Janis has worked hard getting tons of sponsors so that means there are tons of prizes to be won!

I created a swing easel card featuring a Tim Holtz Crazy Cat with accessories in all the bright Halloween colors of black, purple, green, yellow and orange! SO fun! My inspiration for this card came from a recent Splitcoast Stampers newsletter HERE. Those who know me – even moderately well – know that I love me some fun folds and I’m always looking for new ones to try!

I’m in love with the Tim Holtz Crazy Cats stamps and dies right now, so I pulled them back out along with the coordinating Crazy Things stamps and dies, and stamped, colored and die cut my cat along with his hat, broom and pumpkin. I cut six of the BOO! die cuts and layered them for dimension, to keep the easel portion of the card open, and added an orange gemstone to the exclamation point. ;)

Here are a couple close-ups. I stamped a simple sentiment on the back of the cat panel and left a spot to sign the card. I included a side shot of the card below so you can see the cool construction. ;)




And here’s one more look… this card folds flat for mailing. How cool is that?!

Proud to enter this card into the following challenges:
a2z Scrapbooking: October Final Challenge – Holidays
A Bit More Time To Craft: #102 – Anything Goes
Addicted To Stamps: #178 – Add A Pumpkin
Arty Divas: #7 – Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges: #533 – Halloween/Thanksgiving/Bonfire Night
Crafty Calendar: October – Autumn Colors/Halloween
Crafty Gals Corner: #200 – Halloween Colors
Creative Inspirations: October Challenge – Masculine or Halloween/Autumn
International Art & Soul: #69 – Halloween
LeighSBDesigns Days of Halloween Blog Hop: Day 24
Lost Coast Portal To Creativity: #86 – Pets
Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge: #47 – Meow-loween/Furrything Goes
Sweet Stampers Challenge Blog: #37 – Autumn or Halloween
The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes 02319
The Male Room: #122 – Halloween
The Paper Funday Challenges: #10 Anything Goes with a twist of Halloween
Try it on Tuesday: It’s Witches/Wizards/Halloween
Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: GKD Black Onyx and White cardstock, American Crafts dandelion cardstock, Darice lime green and orange premium textured cardstock, Colorbok purple Seeing Dots cardstock
Stamps: Tim Holtz Alterations Crazy Cats and Crazy Things stamp sets, Stampin’ Up And Many More stamp set
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Studio 71- E2, E6, E10, E11, E16, E17, N5, N6, N8, YR4, YR14, YR15, Y12, V13
Dies/Punches: Tim Holtz Alterations Crazy Cats and Crazy Things die sets, My Favorite Things Stitched Square STAX die, Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders die, Stampin’ Up Boo To You Framelits
Accessories: MISTI stamping tool, Gemini Junior die cutting machine, Carpe Diem plaid Washi Tape, Me & My Big Ideas black/gold Washi Tape, Darice orange gemstone, YNS black Glittered Gumdrops
I hope you’ve enjoyed this fun fold! Be sure to come on over and play in the 2019 Cat Lovers Hop for a chance to win an awesome prize! Thanks for stopping by – we’ll see you next time! ;)
Scrappy hugs,
I love the Crazy Cats and this card you’ve made using them is wonderful, a perfect card for the time of year.
Jane Willis
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Love the colours you have used, a great card x
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Great card.. Love the Cat!
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Beautiful design!!! Adorable and funny Halloween card!!!
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Too cute! That kitty doesn’t look to sure about it all. LOL Love your colors and how you’ve stacked the sentiment to hold up the easel. xxD
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Fabulous card…love the kitty!
Val DT LeighSBDesigns x
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What a great easel card! Love the cute hat on the kitty.
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Fa-boo-lous design. Love the details. I am hoping along the 31 Days of Halloween and the Cat Lover’s Hop today =^-^=
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Love that cat. Great colour scheme. Super card!
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Hello Leslie!! Yes its so lovely to visit your blog again! Glad to see you’ve joined the Cat Lovers Hop – this is my 5th year! Sweet to learn about all your kitties! Your card is just extraordinary! Love the folds and the Tim Holz stamp… beautifully coloured! Hope to see you again!
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Beautiful card, love the design and the folding is so clever!!
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Oh, you made one! I saw this tutorial too! it’s brilliant! Turned out beautifully! Love the kitty too!
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such a clever card design you have created. love the crazy cat stamp and your colors and embellishments. thanks for joining the lost coast design challenge.
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I love making different card shapes too. Not seen this one before so will be having a go for myself. I have the crazy cats dies but silly me not the stamps. Love the card you have created here. Purrfect for Halloween. Hugs
ValeryAnne.
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Gorgeous Halloween colors! I love the folds on this card! Fantastic image!
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Happy Day 24! So delighted to have you come & join in my 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop today! I hope you’ve seen lots of wonderful eye candy as you hopped today’s blog hop entries & will come back & play some more! Your card is PURRtastic, I do love Tim’s cats too, FaBOOlous make!
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AWESOME easel card…. these one of my favorites!!! Great crazy cat image, love your coloring!
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I love the Crazy Cats! And this is a fun card! I love different/unique folds, too.
I do need to try them more, though. Thanks so much for your kind words on my
posts and you are ‘in’ for the kitty ef. 😉
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LUV the cat and what a super card design – so gorgeous :-)
Thank you for purring along to play at SUYP Cats Challenges.
Hugz
IKE =^..^=
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LUV the cat and what a super card design – so gorgeous 🙂
Thank you for purring along to play at SUYP Cats Challenges.
Hugz
IKE =^..^=
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Always love that crazy cat.
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your card is fabulous!
great design and cute kitty image!
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I love the Crazy Cats, Leslie, and this one is fantastic! Great job with the easel card. The “Boo” is a perfect stopper. 😀
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Wow…what a fab design!! Love your fun Halloween card with the Crazy Cat. TH’s cats always make me laugh with their confused and befuddled expressions. Not sure if he actually likes cats or not! Ha. Your card has such festive colors and fun details, Leslie….I love the orange rhinestone on the sentiment.
Thank you so much for playing along in the #2019CatLoversHop!!!
❤ J
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What a wonderful easel card for Halloween. LOVE the Crazy Cat with her witch hat accessory!
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That’s a great expression on the cat. I’ve never done a swing easel card. It’s really nice.
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Oh, Leslie, this is a really fun fold! I can manage easel cards, but I’m not sure about swing easels – but I’ll give it a go, so thanks for the link! I love the Crazy Cats too, and this is a fun Halloween design! Gorgeous! xx
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You had fun playing along with the cat lover’s hop for sure! This is another super cute card! Love the fun fold and the fun colors! Thanks for playing with The House That Stamps Built.
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Brilliant project using a great image and papers thank you for joining in at Crafty Calendar
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OMG this is such a cool creation … love that image and the fold is fabulous! Thanks so much for playing in our challenge at Addicted to Stamps!
Darlene
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oooo love this fold! And gorgeous halloween palette! Thanks for making this hop on the Cat Lover’s Blog Hop so fun! #2019CatLoversHop
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Awesome card and a great design. Love the vibrant Halloween colours and the swing easel is so unique. Thanks for playing at The Male Room, hope to see you join in with future challenges too.
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So cute – that cat looks really confused!
Thanks for joining us at International Art and Soul!
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wow – I love your combo of colours, it makes for a striking card.
Thanks for sharing with us at The Male Room.
Linby x
DT
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Awesome card! Love the colors and cute cat! Love the easel format!
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Not only is this a fabulous card, but I am smitten with the design! I have never heard of a swing easel card before. Thank you for the link. I will try to check it out.
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Cool design. Thanks for joining the fun at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge. Hugz
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A fantastic design and Halloween cat. Thank you for linking with us at Try it on Tuesdays.
Yvonne
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This is an adorable card. I love that kitty. Thanks for sharing it with us on Try It On Tuesday. Hugs-Erika
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Super fun card, it made me laugh!! Thanks for linking up to our October challenge gallery at a2z Scrapbooking.
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Oh my gosh, what fun and I like the card style too. So glad you joined us at A2Z Scrapbooking.
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Super cute card! That is clever to add many layers to the sentiment to keep the card up! Thanks for joining in over at a2z Scrapbooking for the October Challenge.
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This is lovely and cute.
Thank you for joining us at the Sweet Stampers and i hope to see you again.
Hugs
Kuni
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I think that Kitty may have scared himself! Thanks for playing along at The Paper Funday Challenges. Donna – DT Member
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Hi Zowie back again! I love your card, it is fabulous!
Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Arty Divas this week. Looking forward to seeing you again next challenge.
Hugs, Zowie xx
Arty Divas DT
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Fab card, Leslie – love the colours you’ve used.
Thanks for joining us at the Arty Divas Challenge Blog.
Helenx
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Those Tim Hotz Cats always make me laugh! Great colours too. Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Arty Divas this week.
Looking forward to seeing you again next challenge.
Love Alex (PinkCraftyMama).
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omg I love this! It’s so creative. Also, I have the same Stamper’s Anonymous Sentiments / Holiday stamp set. hahaha I love how you used it!! Good luck on the Crafty Gals Corner Challenge!
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