One Little Word - January 2013

Here's a look at how my One Little Word (OLW) pages are shaping up for January.  I mostly stuck to Ali Edwards' instructions for the prompt.  All the materials I've used I had on on hand.  They include:
Close To My Heart's My Acrylix stamp set "Atomic Caps" for the word "SEEK" on each of the cards.  I had some trouble figuring out how to include the other words on the cards since mine were much longer words than Ali's 3-4 letter words.  I used Creative Memories Mini Alphabet stickers that I've had forever and changed up the colors to match the kraft cardstock and the Cranberry ink (from Close To My Heart) on the word "SEEK".  The washi tape is some I got in a SMASH pack.  I had some problems with that as it did not want to stick very well on the cardstock.  I've heard that's a problem with washi tape.  I used Close To My Heart ink "White Daisy" for the months on the kraft cardstock. For the months I used Close To My Heart's Nov. 2012 Stamp of the Month "Capture the Date".  My color scheme developed from the kraft cardstock and the washi tape I had on hand and built from there with other materials in my stash.  That's how its worked in the last 2 years as well.  Other than the page protectors and album I've never bought anything specifically for OLW.
For the print paper I had DCWV's Tradewinds Matstack tucked away.  It was another purchase made just because I like the look of it.  I do have to say though that I don't have a lot of print paper on hand so my choices were limited.  Even so this paper really spoke to me.  I originally had pulled some of Tim Holtz's papers out for this but once I saw these there was no question this was the right one.
While this isn't finished yet I'm going to set it aside for the week and revisit this next weekend.  In the meantime I need to find or take a photo of myself (never one of my favorite activities).  I want to sit with my word for a few days.  I'll probably add more thoughts to my month cards.  I'll be looking through my stash more - I think I have a key somewhere I'd like to add to the one print card.  I'm not a fan of butterflies or birds just because they are everywhere(...gasp...I know its such a big trend...but up to this point butterflies/birds just haven't done anything for me) so I don't think I have any of those but I'll check to be sure. They certainly would work symbolically for my word "SEEK"
So that's it for now....Are you doing One Little Word or a variation of it for 2013?  Please share....

Follow up to One Little Word Blog Hop

I had a lot of fun checking out the other 33 blogs during yesterday's One Little Word Blog Hop.  I hope you did too.  If you haven't had a chance yet, I encourage you to check the list in yesterday's post!  What a variety of styles, interests and presentations!  Great inspiration. 
I wanted to share with you the supplies I used for January.  The album (see photo) is a We R Memory Keepers Classic Leather Album in red.  I am loving this album and have already purchased a second one looking forward to doing this project again.  I also plan to buy some in the 12 x 12 size for the many albums I have yet to finish.  The 9 pocket page that was the main part of our assignment for January came in a pack from Pink Paislee.  I've also purchased 2 more packs of these - I love the variety in this pack!  We'll adding to the back part of this page for our February assignment.  Both of these items I ordered from scrapbook.com.  Very happy with them - great customer service and speedy delivery.  The other items I used were some white cardstock from my stash that I ran through my printer for the template that Ali provided for the cards.  The gold color paper was also something I already had - it's DCWV Shimmer Stack- which I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink (walnut stain) on to age a little.  My color theme for this project is red, white, black and gold.  I'm trying very hard to let this project evolve and not rush it.  Its entirely possible that some of this will change overtime.  I'm still not entirely pleased with the look of the dictionary piece with the definition on it.  Hope you'll join us again for March's Blog Hop to see the results of February assignments. Thank you to all who visited and a special thanks to those who are now following my blog!  I hope to inspire!