I have become such a bad blogger lately.  Maybe I will just call it "taking a break" during the summer.  Well now that school is back in session, summer is technically over and therefore the excuses are over. Right?! Since school is back in session, the Cricut Blog has been focusing on school themed projects all during the month of August.  I had an assignment that went up last week to use office or school supplies on a layout.  It was a fun challenge for me and I really enjoyed playing with something that was not just made for scrapbooking. The photos I scrapped are of my niece (who started Kindergarten yesterday and LOVED it!!!) playing with my scrapbook supplies to create her own little works of art!  She always has a blast doing this, and I really wish I lived closer sometimes so that I could have her over more often to do this.
The office/school supplies that I used on my layout included: manilla tags, index cards, tabs from hanging file folders, Dymo label maker, and staples.  I used one of the index cards as my journaling box.
If you are interested in my school related projects and ideas, make sure you stop by the Cricut Blog and check out the past posts and the upcoming posts for August. 
Thanks for stopping by as always! And by the way...how much is enough or not enough when it comes to blogging?  Any thoughts?
HUGS!
J

Congratulations AMY! You are the winner of my Bo Bunny giveaway!  You will be getting a little something from Bo Bunny and from me for stopping by both of our blogs on my "Get to know" day!
Thanks so much to all of you that stopped by!

Happy Friday!  If you happen to be a Cricut Fan then you know yesterday was Hello Thursday and you know what that means!!! If you are not, here is the low down...Once a month Provo Craft releases all the new cartridges for that month and shares them with the world on this special day.  For those of you who are members of the Cricut Circle, you got to see your peaks on Wednesday! The projects I am sharing with you today are also up on the Official Cricut Blog.  Make sure you stop by there for more details and to check out all the new cartridges and projects that were created by the Cricut Circle Design Team. You will also want to leave a comment over there as well by Midnight, Saturday, July 30th, 2011.  On Sunday they will randomly select a WINNER from the comments to win $100 of Cricut.com Credit! How awesome is that?!

For this project I used the new cartridge called Art Nouveau!  It is so unique and different from the other Cricut cartridges! It has a wonderfully grown-up, elegant feel to it.  Taking that into consideration, I decided to try and stretch it's use and used it on a layout of my niece who is only 3 in this photo.  I think the images are just gorgeous and call for a bit of glitter and glam.  I ran out of time, but I am still planning on creating a card with one of the beautiful female images on this cartridge!
Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!
Happy Hugs!
Juliana

This week the Bo Bunny blog schedule was move around a bit so that we could feature the new releases last week.  That left us with sharing both a card and layout challenge in the same week.  Here is the card I created for the Card Challenge which was to create your own paper embellishment.  I choose to create a butterfly and used my Cricut to cut out the butterfly image several times from the patterned paper.  I then layered it and on the final layer added some glitter and jewels for a bit of sparkle and shine!
The Layout Challenge is to create a layout about you or your families favorite food.  I created a layout about Danny's favorite food cherry pie and then included my Mom's recipe on a pull out card to include on the layout.
If you want to play along with either or both of the weeks challenges, all you have to do is create a project and then link it using the InLinkz link at the bottom of the post on the Bo Bunny blog.  By entering, you will have the chance to win a fantastic Bo Bunny prize package!

Lastly, I have a layout I created toward the beginning of the month for a photo swap we did between some of the Bo Bunny designers.  We all signed up and emailed our photo/photos to the gal in charge.  She then sent the photos to another gal to scrapbook, so it was a fun surprise to see who got your photos and then how they scrapped them!  I got to work with a gorgeous photo of Romy and created this layout with her in mind.  She just recently finished school and this photo really seemed to capture the happiness she has about doing so and what the future holds for her.