One Little Word® 2016 // January

Another year, another set of prompts from the One Little Word class. I am super excited to work with my new word this year. I'm looking forward to all the changes this journey will bring and can't wait to see all the progress I make.

I use again a 5x7 mini album to document the prompts each month. This time I use one of jamaica makes clear albums (which will be available today in her shop). I really really love the see through effect. Especially because my word is "light".

I stamped the words "one little word" from this stamp set on the cover itself with black StazOn ink. For my next page I painted these big alphas white and adhered them to a white piece of cardstock. 

At the beginning of the year we always get invited to take a photo of ourselves. Although I don't take that many photos of me alone smiling at the camera I really appreciate this prompt because it's interesting to look back and see how I changed over the years.

On the right you can see the quote I picked for this year. "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light" by Yogi Bhajan. I know nothing about him but this quote resonates with me.

I bought the 2016 one little word mini kit to get that stamp set. I like that I can easily add some color to my spreads this way. And that stamp set will be used each and every year. Below the quote (you almost can't see it) I added a clear star I had in my stash.

The first month is always a little bit intense word wise. You set your intentions and write about your expectations. For the right side I used the text from this blog post and printed it out. 

On this page you can see that I use a combination of German and English in my album. I don't really care about the fact, that it's not the same language on each and every page. Some things can be said better in English, some in German.

READ MORE ABOUT MY ONE LITTLE WORD POSTS HERE
why I chose "light" //

one little word 2015: quality // one little word 2014: open

SUPPLIES I USED
clear album made by jamaica makes, one little word stamp set 2015, one little word mini kit 2016, printables from the one little word class, big alphas from StudioCalico which I painted white, precision pen in #03, precision pen in #01, black StazOn ink pad, red Memento Luxe ink pad, sahara sand StampinUp ink pad, thick white cardstock from StampinUp

*One Little Word® is a concept created by Ali Edwards where you pick a word at the beginning of the year. You work with your word on a year long journey. You can find out more about the class and sign up here.