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**Please scroll down for my Paper Smooches CHA post as well as the Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop post.**

The ants go marching one by one, hoorah, hoorah. The ants go marching one by one, hoorah, hoorah... The Ants Go Marching was one of the first ever books I ordered from Scholastic when my baby was in daycare, and I will never, ever, get rid of it. Both my boys loved it, and the best part of it all is that they mostly loved it when I read it to them because I made the corresponding noises and voices, etc. (The Ants Go Marching and Cowboy Bunnies.)

I made a 3x3 card. Its a wee bitty thing! When I read of Moxie Fab World's 75 Creative Card Challenges Week: Make an Itty Bitty Card, this stamp from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps was the first that came to my mind. I stamped and heat embossed it in green onto a stitched rectangle die cut, then mounted that to some patterned paper and then onto a card base. Reminds me of the no-fuss kind of cards that you give men... You still want them to look nice, but you've got to get the point across and not use too much of the "expensive stuff".

Today's Tip: Embrace mistakes. I didn't get fine results from embossing so I embraced the grungy look and reached for masculine colors and designs, as well as inked up the edges.

*Lynda, I wasn't able to contact you via email or find a link to your blog. I've updated my previous two blog posts with the answers to your two questions!