This is my final April craft item.  This page of Emmylou's dress up closet is for the ABC with a twist challenge at Soul Scrappers. The twist was to use a die cut.  I like this challenge because it encourages me to use some of my older embellishments each month.  The little princess is many year old--probably older than Emmylou!

Here's my card for the Outlawz Progressive Challenge for April--last minute as usual.  I had fun with this one.  I liked the image, plus I was able to use a lot of old stash items.  I wish I had cut the water to a more pond-like shape, but I didn't think of it until I'd glued it down.

This coffee girl is for the April challenge at Gerda Steiner Designs. She was fun to color, and I can see a lot of uses for the image. Gerda is introducing a lot of new images--each one cuter than the last.

This is my card for the April Progressive Challenge at Imagine That Digis by Kris. I enjoy coloring my cards, but I love that Kris includes both line drawings to color and pre-colored images.  I used the pre-colored pieces this month to paper piece this card.

This month's challenge for From the Heart Stamps is another cute pig.  The set included several clever sentiments, but I have had some distant family members on my mind lately, so I decided to make my piggie blue. Sadly, he turned out a little purple, but I'm old and you know the saying about wearing purple when you are an old woman.

 I attended a crop at the River Lodge last weekend, and used the time to work on cards for the Honor Flight Mail Call.  I used the "Thank you, Hero" digital image from Operation Write Home, plus a variety of stamps I had on hand.  I pulled the Hero stamp from Paper Inspirations, CTMH Salute to Our Heros, Verve American Hero, and Stampin Up Simply Stars and Work of Art.  I used a variety of dies, mostly Nestabilities.  The yellow ribbon was from Verve and the dog tags from Cheery Lynn Designs. I also used the Stampin Up Chevron punch and the Tonic star border punch.  I'm not sure who made the three star embossing folders I used.  I'm not particularly brand loyal, as you can see.  I spent 6-7 hours to make these 15 cards.  Since that amounts to less than 30 minutes per card, I felt quite productive.

This card was for the April 15 post at Your Scrapbook Place.  I colored the image with markers then melted crayons onto the base and over the crayon image.  It was fun to do, but very messy!