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!

I missed the deadline for submitting this challenge, but the image is so cute, I made a card anyway.  It's for Deedee's Digis. Hopefully, I can get my April cards finished a little sooner!

Here's another Gerda Steiner image.  It's for the March Progressive challenge at Gerda Steiner Designs.

This is my card for the March Outlaws Challenge Progressive Freebie.  The image is from Gerda Steiner.  I think her images are so sweet, I love them.

This is the card for Imagine That Digis March progressive challenge. I love the fact that these sets include both line drawings and pre-colored images.

Here's my card for the March challenge at From the Heart Stamps.  I was wrapped up in too many events this month, and just made the card under the wire!

This Fred She Said image is up on the Your Scrapbook Place blog for mid-month inspiration.  The anything goes challenge runs until the end of the month.

Here are the little girls' St
Patrick Day cards.

Here's the invitation for Jen's baby shower.  Elaine found the prettiest night sky paper for the front.  It didn't photograph very well, but it is a beautiful sparkly dark blue.  The falling stars are just right for the Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star theme.

Here's a card for the March Your Scrapbook Place challenge. The theme is anything goes.  The image comes from Fred She Said Designs. They have lots of cute digital images, both line drawings and pre-colored.  They also have digital cut files and rubber stamps.  I also love their flower images.

Today's last card isn't for a challenge.  I've been playing with embossing folders this week.  I thought this little girl from Crafter's Companion would look great on stage.  She's colored with Copics and the background is chalked.

Here's the card for the February Progressive Challenge at Deedee's Digis.  I love that Deedee's sets include both line drawings and colored images.  

Here's the image for February's progressive challenge at Outlawz. It's from Sandy Huggett at Sandi's Samples.

Here's another sweet set from Imagine That .  I  colored this month's image, but I love the flexibility of having a colored set to use when you need a card and don't have much time to put it together.