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 →

Last week Ali Edwards announced that the Week in the Life project would be running in early May this year and that the 2016 kit was available to pre-order. Week in the Life is a project run over the course of a week recording the details of the everyday life in photos and words. Then, depending on your chosen method... 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 →

Still loving this project and already thinking about next years album! But for now I've got weeks 45 and 46 to share with you. For week 45 I used patterned paper by My Minds Eye and mixed that with the Seafoam Edition paper and core kit and some inserts from the Midnight Edition. As always I've used my favourite little... Read more →

I've been working with a magazine called Get Stamping since it's first issue was released early this year. It's a stamping magazine (obviously!) and each issue comes with a set of stamps. It's on sale every 8 weeks. I produce four layouts for each issue using the stamp set that will come with the magazine. And write about the techniques... Read more →

Several years ago I saw in the book 'Clean & Simple Scrapbooking, The Sequel' by Cathy Zielske a wonderful album she had made about her childs school life, it was called The School Years. I loved the idea of having a special album for each of my boys detailing their journey through school from Pre-School right up to, well who... Read more →

I've two weeks worth of Project Life to share, sometimes a week is busy that I can only find myself being able to grab half an hour here and there to work on it. This was the case with week 43. I always plan out what photos and stories I want to use with the help of the Momento App... Read more →

Hello week 42! This was the week... I completed my Week in the Life 2013 album I resurrected my blog My Studio Calico December Daily kit arrived all the way from America Matthew found out he'd passed his 11+ entrance test for grammar school and was eligible to apply for a place (we won't find out if he's actually got... Read more →