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Another lovely collection by Maggie Holmes. I especially love the chipboard pieces and the word / phrase labels.

Commented Jan 7, 2017 on New Collection: Chasing Dreams by Maggie Holmes at Crate Paper

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! Continue reading

Posted Apr 9, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Halloween mini-album in March

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Ten, take two

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Hey Little Magpie March CT Blog Post

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Shimelle's scrapbooking challenges

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Great layout, thanks for taking part in the challenge! As I looked closely at it I recognised it was Bournemouth beach, my closest beach. I love it there and luckily it's only 20 minutes drive away for me.

Commented Mar 6, 2016 on As good as it can be at Dolly's Dreamings

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Shimelle - Guest Artist

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Online scrapbooking weekend over at Shimelle's!

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! Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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WITL - thinking ahead and looking back.

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Favourite 2015 Scrapbooking Projects

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... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Round Here

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... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2016 at Half a cup of coffee

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Thanks very much. I finally decided to use the one with the deers, but it was a hard decision! My blog post goes live tomorrow on http://blog.heylittlemagpie.com/ Jo x

Commented Dec 7, 2015 on Free December Daily Calendar Printables at Stitch In Time

These are beautiful, thank you! I'm sharing my DD album on a UK scrapbook store blog Hey Little Magpie. Would you mind if I showed your calendar within my album? I would of course give you credit, if you don't mind. Thanks Jo

Commented Dec 6, 2015 on Free December Daily Calendar Printables at Stitch In Time

What a gorgeous collection. I'd love to win this!

Commented Aug 4, 2015 on INTRODUCING...UNDER THE TREE! >> GIVEAWAY WINNER at October Afternoon

Adorable! Beautiful colour way again with this collection, love it all.

Commented Jul 19, 2015 on Our Newest Collection: Wonder at Crate Paper

Oh my goodness. You are going to bankrupt me with these gorgeous lines!! Wow, love absolutely everything about this collection, how can I pick a single item? I'll say chipboard pieces, but seriously it's the whole lot!

Commented Jan 8, 2015 on Welcome to the party CP fans! It's Lisa, back with... at Crate Paper

Oh my goodness, it's hard to narrow it down. But if I had to chose one with my arm twisted behind my back I'd say the word stickers.

Commented Jan 7, 2015 on Welcome CP Fans to the Crate blog! My name is Lisa... at Crate Paper

Love, love, love this!!

Commented Jan 7, 2015 on Hello CP friends, I'm so excited to be back today... at Crate Paper

I am in awe of what you have been achieving these past few years, that's some going! I absolutely love your Crate Paper line and am thrilled that is will be continuing to grow. Wishing you and your expanding family all the very best for the future xx

Commented Aug 6, 2014 on More Changes >> A Sad Goodbye at MAGGIE HOLMES Photography and Scrapbooking Blog

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Hey Little Magpie!

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... Continue reading

Posted Jul 15, 2014 at Half a cup of coffee

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You're welcome! It looks a daunting thing to start, but it really is worth it. xx

Commented Nov 24, 2013 on The School Years at Half a cup of coffee

Thanks Sheila xxx

Commented Nov 24, 2013 on Get Stamping Magazine at Half a cup of coffee

Project Life - Weeks 45 & 46

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... Continue reading

Posted Nov 24, 2013 at Half a cup of coffee

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Get Stamping Magazine

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... Continue reading

Posted Nov 23, 2013 at Half a cup of coffee

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