IMP Blog Team Jill Kane | 2022 Craft Your Word
Hi all, Jill here. Happy 2022! A bit about me and where I’m beginning with my projects this year. What you’ll consistently see from me is mixing products from my stash with the great digital products the IMP designers are creating for us. Mixing products is my jam and brings me so much joy!
My favorite annual project is documenting my word for the year (One Little Word if you follow Ali Edwards). Last year I found myself veering quite a bit from Ali’s workshop prompts and took that as a nudge that I need to approach this project differently this year. The stars aligned when my 2022 word, craft, settled into my thoughts last fall. So I’m going my own way with my word and several IMP January shop digitals are getting me started!
This flip open page will eventually get adhered to the OLW Journal that isn’t in stock yet. The page I made is 6×8 and features stamps from Papierstudio’s Happy New Year collection. It’s printed on vellum, along with some free butterfly illustrations from Canva. I tinkered with the Canva color editor to change their colors and then adjusted the transparency editor on most of them. To add some interest, I X-acto cut around some of the wings to lift them up a bit from the page and to get a peek at the mixed media painted paper under this top layer. That piece is a scrap “paint off” sheet of thin deli paper that I saved from an art journal painting project. It creates the second folded page that covers 2-4×6 cards.
These two transparent pages open up to a sentiment card and a photo of me working in my craft room. I used Paper Hum Co.’s 4×6 Monthly Journal Cards which also include a set of overlays to achieve the look I have here with the January printed on my photo. The photo card is adhered with room in back to create a pocket.
I’m not an Adobe user and recently started using the free version of Canva. It’s so easy, fun and has a bunch of tools and design options. I used it to make this 3.5×5.5 card that slips behind my photo. The Jan 15 2022 repeat stamping is background that I stamped and uploaded into Canva as a photo. Then I added these colorful label spots from the In My Pocket Collab Life Stories Digital Kit. I will fill in with some journaling about defining with design, which is my prompt for January.
Cheers to new crafty memory keeping adventures in 2022! Maybe this is the year where you also want to take a new approach with a favorite project. I’d love to hear what you’re thinking. Please comment below, in the FB In My Pocket Memory Keeping group or on my IG @jillkane25. Thanks!