Blog: Story Play Foodie | Special Guest Jill

Hi friends! Jill here to share a few Foodie kit ideas with you. I don't know about you, but the minute I got this kit in my hands I knew I wanted to use it in my travel projects. Who doesn't indulge in fun food on vacation? Those stories deserve a spot in your travel albums! Today I am sharing 3 ways I used the kit in both my Disneyland album that I've been working on since 2023 and the album for my recent Alaska cruise.

PROJECT 1: DISNEYLAND FOOD STORIES

My Disneyland album has been sitting ready for journaling and embellishments for quite some time now so I was thrilled to pop some food stories in there! The snacking, drinking, and food memory journaling cards were perfect to go along with my food photos from the trip.

As I was thinking about something to do with the cards to make them a bit more fun, I pulled out my extra park maps and decided to try backing the journaling cards with those maps by trimming a bit off the sides and the bottom. I love the extra bit of whimsy it adds!

PROJECT 2: CRUISE FOOD STORIES

When I saw the yellow food stories paper, I knew it could be a great home for some of my cruise stories by covering up the journaling prompts already on there with plain white cardstock. While looking at my stash for a way to add a bit more color to the page, I realized that the 2x2 "you, me, us" cards from the Week in the Life collection fit perfectly in the spaces on this paper! I had already saved those cards to use in my cruise album so I was happy to find a home for 3 of them. All I had to do to use them in this format was to trim off the part of the cards with the design and adhere them to the white cardstock I had already cut out. This was a super easy page to put together that holds 3 random food stories from my cruise and will sit alongside photos from that day. If you also have some of these 2x2 cards leftover, I recommend trying them with this paper.

PROJECT 3: MORE PLEASE FOOD STORIES

The last project I made was inspired by the card with spots for different meals of the day. When I took my 14 year old son on a cruise, I thought he might actually try some new foods or at least take advantage of all of the fun desserts he doesn't normally get to have. But in reality he had the same handful of things for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and pretty much only ate ice cream cones for snacks and dessert. But he loved it and really enjoyed the freedom he had to eat whatever and whenever he wanted.

I had purchased the 10x8 Week in the Life album to use for my Alaska cruise so I decided to make this story into a 10x8 page. This would allow me to create more room to tell this story. First I printed a photo I had of my son's plate at 6x8 size and then I typed my journaling on a 10x8 canvas with little lines above each section where I planned to adhere each meal prompt after I cut them out from the original 3x4 card.

This could have been my finished project but I decided I wanted more journaling for some extra context, so I dug in my stash for the clear vellum pocket and a piece of vellum from the One Little Word collection that I could layer on top. To cover the writing on the pocket, I adhered the "more please" chipboard tag and also created a tag out of one of the cards in the kit to adhere to the backside. To finish it off, I created some washi tape ribbons for my tags. My process video below shows how to do that if you are interested.

For more info about how I created these projects as well as to see some of the last project get put together, check out my process video below.

Thanks for joining me in telling some food stories! If you want to see more of my projects, you can find me on Instagram at @jill.drangsholt

Meet Jill

Hi! My name is Jill and I live in Idaho with my teen son and my longhaired dachshund. In addition to memory keeping, I also love Bible journaling and working on my perfectionism through art journaling. I am also so thankful to have a job that serves as a creative outlet, although that is probably why I prefer working with physical products rather than digital in my off time! When I’m not being creative, you will find me reading on my patio or looking for wildflowers along the Boise River. Find more inspiration from Jill on Instagram here.