Heather Johnson Photography

If you have been reading along for awhile here, you know that this year I have been positively obsessed with recoloring elements and text when it comes to making my weekly Project Life pages. When I created a tutorial for how to recolor elements a few months ago, one of my suggestions in the video was to open up a number of journaling cards to find colors to sample off of. It occurred to me tonight as I was working on next week’s layouts that this was a cumbersome way to do things….so I created a palette file. Now I will only need to have this open as I recolor instead of numerous journaling card files. Love it!

I thought you all would find it helpful, so feel free to grab the image off of the blog. (It’s a low-res version jpg so I am hoping it will download quickly and easily if you right-click on the image.) If that doesn’t work, just shoot me an email and I am happy to email you the file. I created this by sampling the papers within the digital kit….so I am pretty sure they are accurate. (The dark gray really tripped me up, I would have sworn the text papers were in black…but I enlarged it to 300% and it didn’t sample black…so I am guessing it just looks black but isn’t.)

If I have time this weekend I will create one of these for the Olive Edition as well. If there is another edition out there that you would like one for just leave me a comment.

Have a great weekend!

 

Sorry I have been neglecting the old blog as of late. First my mom came to town on the 19th for a twelve night stay, then Justin and I skipped town for a three day getaway, and lastly….I finally joined the gym. I spend 90-120 minutes there a day so time for anything else has sort of gone out the window. However, I am feeling mentally and physically soooo much better that it’s worth it. (And I don’t think it will be long before I am able to have more energy to stay up at night and work on projects and designing products. I seriously can’t wait for that.)

Without further ado…here is Week Thirteen featuring the Midnight Edition.

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I really wish this kit had been released the week I did my black and white pictures, it truly would have been perfect. That being said, I really love this kit with color photos too….I am actually quite surprised how much I love it considering how bright I like my colors. I think I love it so much because of all of the black–anyone else noticed how obsessed I am with black this year?!

What we were up to this week: House guests, first haircuts, seeing ourselves on TV, time together….it really was a good week!

Techniques used this week: Nothing I haven’t done before. I added a ghosted journaling block to my popcorn photo, but kept anything “fancy” to a minimum. Not even many brushes this week. This kit really screams simple to me.

Other thoughts:  I love this kit. All of the new kits actually. It’s so wonderful to have so much variety with Project Life products. Don’t you all agree?! I bought both a Jade and a Blush kit when they were on HSN–can’t wait to show you all what I will be doing with those. If only someone could add, oh let’s say, 4-6 extra hours to my day!! 

Supplies used this week: Most of the items are listed in the icons below.

 

 

Loved getting a chance to create pages with a brand new core kit–The Kraft edition! I simply love this kit, the colors are great for the everyday, boy or girl, so versatile and fun. Lots of geometric shapes in the papers….I already can’t wait to use it again!

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What we were up to this week: With a visitor in town (my mom) there was a whole lot more going on this week. We went to The Mall of America to The American Girl Doll Store and had lunch, just one of the many traditions we do when “Cake”  is in town.

Techniques used this week: Nothing new this week. Still used brushes A LOT, still recoloring EVERYTHING. I did resize 12×12 templates I collected around the web to 6×6–love how digital supplies give you so many options.

Other thoughts:  I liked shaking it up a bit by using a different template–design E. I had so many photos, and didn’t want to have a zillion inserts, so it seemed like the best way to record a lot.

Supplies used this week: Most of the items are listed in icons below. The “Favorite Time of Day” stamp is part of Ali’s Everyday Journaling Prompts set. The birthday stamp is from Paislee Press’ Birthday Presslines.

If you follow anything about Project Life at all you know that next Monday is a BIG DAY in the Project Life world–Project Life is going to be available on HSN! Per Lisa Bearnson’s blog, the following are the times you can find it available on HSN:

12:01 AM

1:00 AM – Today’s Special

8:00 AM – Today’s Special

12:00 PM – Today’s Special

2:00 PM

5:00 PM – Today’s Special

9:00 PM

10:00 PM – Today’s Special

This is even more exciting in my household as I made up some sample pages that may be shown. Despite me explaining multiple times to Holly that her picture might be on TV since a lot of the photos are of her, she is convinced she is going to be on TV and is telling anyone who will listen!

Because I have two little girls the Blush edition is right up my alley. I LOVE this edition. LOVE it. I will be buying at least one, if not two, HSN deals I am sure! As a reminder–the HSN Project Life opportunity will include a full edition, a binder, a big pack of photo pages, and the dividers. How exciting is that?!? DEFINITELY worth grabbing if you haven’t yet dove into creating an album before.

This was my first go at creating an “everyday” album with a traditional kit, and I must say that I was so happy with it when I was completed I almost cried. I guess, for me anyway, it was verification that I really could create something physical that looked pretty. (In all honesty I am digital mainly because I doubt my ability to do anything creative with physical product….which could be seen with my investments into paper goods over the years that never amounted to anything save scrapping my ultrasound photos you all saw in my baby album.) I truly am a “rookie” scrapbooker in the paper world!

I chose to complete the assignment of creating eight pages with an everyday theme using the Blush edition. My journaling was not completed when these photos were taken–but I couldn’t resist showing you how cute the filler and journaling cards are in this edition. Love, love, love!!! Check them out:

If you have read my blog for any length of time you know that this isn’t a real week, it’s a fake week made up of some of my favorite photos…but hey, this post is all about the cute cards right?!

Two of my favorite things about this edition:

–The colors! A bright dark teal, light teal, a bright pink and yellow, and a dark gray that is spot on perfect with any photo you convert to black and white.

–The prompts! Loved the days of the week journaling cards, and one of my favorites was the card with the little pie chart you can see in the fourth photo down. It says “How I spend my day” and then has lines with different percentages. If I remember right I filled it in with chasing kids, chasing kids, and chasing kids on the 15%, 25% and 35% of my day lines!!!

I am sure that I am not the only mom out there who is laughing at that as they read this:) Have a great day!

 

 

 

 

In Minnesota it’s still snowing (we just got a few fresh inches this morning) so I thought I would dig out the Olive kit to make me feel a little more springy. We are sooooo ready to get outside–and tomorrow? It isn’t happening. The low tonight is going to be below zero, so by morning it will only be in the single digits I am sure. I never thought I would say this–but perhaps I AM ready to move to California. Even with all that crazy traffic!

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What we were up to this week: We had two main events this week, going to open gym time at the rec center and getting sick. That’s it! The cold hit Holly first, and then me and Marie…Justin seems to be doing okay so far. I hope Marie gets better soon…getting woken up nine times (yes NINE TIMES) last night does not a happy mommy make. I am completely exhausted…which explains why this week is pretty much no frills. I have no mojo, and barely enough photos, to make anything happen.

Techniques used this week: Other than brushes, I had a good time recoloring. The dotted paper on the inner mat? Totally recolored. The original is pink–gotta love how with digital you can make papers and elements whatever color you want to coordinate! The “Sisterly Love” 3×4 photo is an image taken with my iphone that had text added with the Photolettering App. I have a feeling this will be showing up A LOT in my layouts in the future.

Other thoughts:  I am in a bit of a slump, I truly haven’t been excited about my pages since I completed the title page a few weeks ago. That’s the last one that had me say WOW…..I am hoping it’s a combination of being tired and sick that will go away soon. My husband and I are headed out of town for a getaway this weekend, so let’s hope that my batteries get recharged and I can get to creating (and posting) more again when we return. (Couple that with the fact that a new PL Edition was just made available digitally and you know next week I will be rocking the Kraft edition. So excited about these new kits and I am hoping that will show in my layout.)

Supplies used this week: Most of the items are listed in icons below. The “cute” arrow is an Ali Edward’s brush available at designerdigitals.com, and the photo flags were a free download from Cathy Zielske. Love those flags!