You can find me over on the Hey Little Magpie blog with my April Creative Team projects, finding inspiration from past layouts. I'm sharing five new layouts and four favourite ones from my albums, come on over and have a look! Read more →

Yep, you read that right, I've just made a Halloween mini-album in March. It's an idea I've had in my head for ages and I even bought the supplies last year with the intention of making this last October. Now, nearly six months later it's made and I really love it. The main collection used is After Dark by Crate... Read more →

Last year I made a sweet little 1 to 10 birthday album for my youngest son who had just turned 10 and shared my project in my August creative team blog post for Hey Little Magpie. I had intentions of making my 12 year old son one as well, in order to keep things fair. However, time passed and it... Read more →

The 8th of the month has come around again so that means I'm up on the Hey Little Magpie blog today. This month I was lucky enough to get to play with the new Maggie Holmes collection Bloom, yay! I adore the Crate Paper collections and especially love the Maggie Holmes ones so I was a happy girl creating pretty... Read more →

As you may have seen I was featured on the 12pm Sunday challenge over at Shimelle.com 'An Adventurous Colour Story'. I made a travel layout and explained why I'd chosen to use certain colours, Shimelle then shared a layout of her own which had incorporated those colours and set the challenge to scrap a layout using the five main colours... Read more →

How very exciting to be featured as a guest artist on Shimelle's blog today, you can see the post with my layout in full here. If you've come from there, Hello! I'm Jo, a creative mum living in Dorset in the south of England. I love scrapbooking, Project Life, making mini-books and generally doing anything crafty. I also love to... Read more →

Something exciting is happening over at Shimelle.com this weekend. Shimelle is hosting an online scrapbooking weekend from 8am Saturday through to Sunday evening and there might be something from me! Read more →

A little while a go I was tagged on social media by a fellow Hey Little Magpie creative team member to share a favourite scrapbooking project or layout from 2015, one a day for a week. I thought it would be a nice to list them here too. Day 1. I chose this layout 'Fly', originally shared on the Hey... Read more →

A little catch up since my last blog post... I'm still here just more present on Instagram these days, I like the ease at which I can post a photo I've just taken with a little heading or status and it's done. You can find my private account where I share everyday life @jobo74 and a public account for all... Read more →

Woo hoo, I can let the magpie out of the bag now...I am honoured and very excited to announce that I am on the Hey Little Magpie Creative Team! Hey Little Magpie is the new trading name for Sarah's Cards Ltd, a UK online scrapbook store. I will be posting on the Hey Little Magpie blog on the 8th of... Read more →