Paper Hoarders DT Offering - A Lazy Day

Welcome to the Paper Hoarders DT offering today!  What can you accomplish in an hour?  Ever timed your projects to see how long it takes from conception to completion?  That's the idea of today's project as directed to the DT from our PH guru Tanya who has all the projects on her blog at http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/

No Monkeying around now - it's time to banana up!  (couldn't resist a bit of humor here)!!
Mama LoveBug is up first today on the "clock" - one hour - what can I do?  I decided to make a cover for a blank perpetual calendar that I had.  My idea is to make a monkey calendar as I want to use some banana paper in my stash.  I measured and cut the desired base of banana paper and adhered it to the calendar's front.

Next I fussy cut 5 different monkeys from three different paper piecing collections I had already printed out.  These cuties are available at Paper Piecings by Nikki's online store http://www.paperpiecingsbynikki.com/ - they are from the following collections:
Top Monkey - You Are So Loved
Center Grouping - See, Speak, Hear No Evil Monkey Set
Bottom Monkey - So Junglicious

After the fussy cutting I used gel pens to give definition and highlighting to each image.
Next I stamped a banana and sentiments (Sweet Thing and You Make Me Smile) I had and gold-embossed/fussy cut the lot.  The final part was arranging the items on the cover and taking a picture of the project.  Here's my finished project!!

Awwww....Wasn't Mama's Project too cute??? And all in an hour! WOWZAA! As for me (Kimi) I decided to make an explosion box!!! I wanted to make a baby one and had just the perfect pattern from Paper Piecings by Nikki to use! I took the hippo from her "Critter Babies" set! He's so cute!!! Take a look! :)

I also used some embellishments from a baby set I had!

I used some cute DCWV paper for the outside as well as a baby stamp set from "Crafty Sprouts"

Here's the box on it's side so you could see it all!

Since we only had an hour I didn't get the inside completed but once I do I'll post some pictures of that as well!!!

So next time you craft set your timer...see what you can do with an hour!!!

Bug hugs,

Kimi