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Good morning! I’m excited to be a stop on the Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop! Many, many thanks to Jennifer for inviting me to be part of this special week! For my card today I played with the cute Fox Hollow stamp set! If you know anything about me, you know I’ve got a thing for foxes! 😉
I’ve recently started experimenting with colored pencils and these stamps were perfect for coloring! I stamped the fox onto toned grey paper with black ink before coloring him with prismacolor colored pencils. I tried to add a little shading in his fur though it’s definitely still a learning process for me! Once I was happy with my fox I added a little snow for him to sit in and then stamped the snowflakes and sentiment from Fox Hollow. I stamped them with versamark and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. Finally I trimmed the paper down and adhered it to a red panel. And that’s it! A clean and simple holiday card with an absolutely adorable fox!
Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Sale!
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Enter to Win! Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop Prizes!
We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $20 store credit for Newton’s Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Sunday, December 11th at 9 pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 12th.
Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop
- Newton’s Nook Designs
- Melody Rupple
- Lynn Put
- Ruby Naz
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Lydia Evans
- Jess Gerstner
- Larissa Heskett
- Samantha Mann
- Crafty Math-Chick
- Stephanie Muzzulin
- Danielle Pandeline
- Naki Rager
- Kimberly Rendino
- Yukari Yoshioka
- Gladys Marcelino
- Anika Lerche
Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!

Awwww! I love the classic elegance to our card – such a bold statement it makes! TFS and Merry Christmas!
What a sweet little fox!
SUPER SWEET Card!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Design and the coloring on Kraft!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
This is absolutly stunning!
Your fox is fabulous
and the card is so
sweet!
Carla from Utah
I love the simple design of this card – it really showcases the cute fox!
I so love this gorgeous CAS design!! The white snow really pops and what a sweet fox image too! 😉 HUGS
I adore how you let the image and your fantastic coloring shine here.
So pretty! I love this stamp set.
So simple but so nice!!!
Such an adorable card! Your coloring with color pencil looks fantastic.
This is so sweet!
The simplicity of your card is stunning and so pretty! Mr Fox is very handsome!
I love that your fox seems to be enjoying the snowflakes coming down! I’ve started using colored pencils, too, so I always love seeing how someone else has used them!
such a sweet card, love!!
Love the grey card and the little fox with snowflakes take me back to when my son was very small and a snowflake melted on his nose. Thank you for that.
Oh my!!! Your card is very cute!!!
So cute and sweet fox!!
You did a wonderful job coloring with pencils, my favorite coloring technique.
This is so adorable! I love the CAS style to this card.
Sweet card! Love the cute fox and simple design.
Simple but beautiful, lovely card.
? Your card is adorable !
darling card! Love that sweet fox!
Gorgeous card! Love your coloring too!