Paper Crafting

For Dylan's birthday I made his invitations one of the view finder cards. See the little white circle on the left of the card you turn that and the next information (time, place, etc.) pops up in the cut out square. I used the little sock monkey stamp set from Stampin Up! To make 37 of these took some time, but I have such a wonderful husband that he helped me out alot:

I also made several little things to go along with the monkey for the goody bag. I bought some banana shaped candy and stuck them in a bag and made a topper with "thanks a bunch" and a banana on it and the monkey head stamped on the back:

I also stamped the monkey on some cardstock and covered little notebooks and gave them gel pens to take "monkey notes" Then while looking for ideas I came across this http://web.mac.com/aninchofcreativity/An_Inch_of_Creativity/Blog/Entries/2008/8/12_I%E2%80%99ve_Been_Monkeying_Around!_Literally!.html and wanted to make this so bad, but only got one made and just didn't have time to make enough for everyone but here is the one I did do:

This is what was in the middle:

So I have had fun getting that all ready. Now it is on to my Christmas cards and then it will be time to start getting things ready for JT's party. Already have the design in my head, just need to get it done. Stay tuned!