A New Chapter Is Coming | Subscription Changes For 2025

NOTE: We recently shared updates about changes to our monthly kit subscriptions with subscribers via email and within the classrooms. Today we are sharing the details with our extended community. Thank you for being a part of this community. Thank you for valuing memory keeping as a part of your life.

After nine years of Story Kits + Story Stamps (that's 110 Story Kits - one each and every month since 2015) I've decided it's time to change things up.

Story Kits, Story Stamps, Just Write and the Quarterly Scrapbook Kit will be retiring at the end of 2024. As you might imagine, this is not a decision I took lightly and rest assured that the business is not shutting down and I'm not stopping scrapbooking. In fact I'm feeling even more excited about memory keeping after deciding to make these changes. Story Kits have been a wonderful chapter in my life personally and in the life of my business. I hope they brought you joy and helped you to creatively document pieces of your life over the years.

Starting in January 2025 we will be offering a new quarterly kit subscription that combines elements of the Story Kits and the Quarterly Scrapbook Kit (read more about that below). This will be called the Storyteller Kit. We will also be offering a new 6x8 stamp subscription called Stamps Are Fun (read more about that below).

Thank you so much for being a part of this adventure (for whatever length of time you've been a part of this subscription). Working on this content each month for nine years has taught me so much about myself and I've told SO MANY stories along the way.

Here is the message that was shared with subscribers:

Here's what's coming next:

STORYTELLER KIT

In 2025 we will be offering a new kit that essentially combines pieces of the Story Kit with pieces of the Quarterly Scrapbook Kit to create one new quarterly subscription called Storyteller Kit.

Current Story Kit subscribers will be automatically added to the subscriber list for the Storyteller Kit. If you decide not to join us in the next chapter of kits you can reach out to my Customer Service Team to cancel before December 31st without penalty.

Here are some details:

• Each Storyteller Kit will have a "general" theme. The themes for 2025 include: Fun, Q+A, Colors, and High/Low.

• Kits will include 12x12 pattern papers, 6x8 pattern papers, 3x4 cards, die cuts, 6x8 chipboard, etc.

• The new Storyteller Kit will also include a classroom similar to this one with projects from me + from our team. We are working on details for the classroom but anticipate that we will be stretching out the lessons over the three month period between kits.

• There will be a digital option for those that enjoy that format. Subscribers will have the option to add the digital during the Add On period.

• $49.99 per quarter

STAMPS ARE FUN

Story Stamp will also end with the December 2024 stamp set (theme of Hello). In 2025 we will offer a new stamp subscription called Stamps Are Fun that will feature a 6x8 stamp set each month.

Current Story Stamp subscribers will be automatically added to the subscriber list for Stamps Are Fun. If you decide not to join us in the next chapter of kits you can reach out to my Customer Service Team to cancel before December 31st without penalty.

Here are a few additional details:

• There will not be a classroom for this subscription. Ideas + inspiration will be shared on the blog and social media.

• These may or may not correspond to the Storyteller Kit themes. Some months will be shapes, some months will be text, and other months will be a combination of the two.

• In the image above you can see pieces of the first six stamp sets.

• 12 month subscription = $20.99 per month // 6 month subscription = $23.99 per month // month to month = $28.99

SUBSCRIPTION UPDATE BASICS

• Story Kit, Story Stamp, Quarterly Scrapbook Kit and Just Write will be ending in December 2024.

• A new quarterly kit that combines elements of the Story Kits with elements from the Quarterly Scrapbook Kit will be released in January 2025. This new subscription will be called Storyteller Kits. Themes for 2025 include Fun, Q+A, Colors, and High/Low. As I design these kits I'm keeping the theme in mind but I'm also including basic storytelling prompts, words, etc.

• There will be a digital option for the Storyteller Kits. This will also include access to the Storyteller Classroom.

• Stamps Are Fun is a new 6x8 monthly stamp subscription that will replace the Story Stamp. There will not be a specific classroom dedicated to the Stamps Are Fun subscription. Our team will share inspiration on the blog and via social media.

• One Little Word® Mini Kits will continue.

• Stories By The Month™ + Inspiration By The Month (digital version) will continue with monthly releases.

• Kit add-ons will still be available when new kits are released.

• You will still be able to access all the Story Kit classrooms from previous years.

A NOTE ABOUT ALBUMS

After the recent announcement from Studio Calico regarding changes to their business we received a number of questions regarding our plans for stocking specifically 9x12 albums.

At this time we do not plan to continue offering pleather 9x12 or 6x8 albums. We will absolutely continue to offer album options when we release project collection. Albums are expensive and we've found over the years that the project albums we offer are much more popular than the basics (meaning they sit in the warehouse for longer than we want in the way our business operates at this time).

I am still planning to use a 9x12 album for my Project Life® in 2025. At this time we do have 9x12 navy albums still available.

If you are looking for black (or other colors) of pleather 9x12 or 6x8 albums check out Scrapbook.com. Please note that the 9x12 albums from Scrapbook.com have 3 ring holes instead of 4 ring holes.

Again, thank you so much for your support and your participation in this community.

Let's keep telling stories together!