Storyteller Kit 01 | Special Guest Jill Drangsholt

Hi friends! Jill here. I don't know about you, but I'm loving this new Fun Storyteller kit and the opportunity to dig into it for 3 month. Today's project was inspired by several things Ali did in her lessons that got me excited to make this insert in my 2024 Project Life album for my Alaska cruise last summer. I plan on making a full album for that trip so I just wanted an insert for some of my favorite photos and a few notes.

When Ali showed how she wanted to use those fun 3x4 cards for documenting her upcoming trip, I realized that they would also be perfect homes for photos for a 7 days cruise. And since Ali challenged us to use the small pockets and tags, I decided to pair those with them to hold the journaling.

With 7 cards and 8 pocket cards, I tried to figure out which page protector to use. Then I realized that if I cut the top row off of my favorite Becky Higgins design F page protector, it would leave me with eight 3x4 pockets and 16 total spots for my cards. Perfect!

That's when I had the idea for attaching the colorful fun vellum to the top of the page protector to fill the spot I had just cut off. I loved how Ali combined a transparency and page protector in her album and wanted to try something similar. What I didn't think about until I was midway through the project was that the vellum is a 12x12 and the page protector is actually bigger than that. Oops! So I had to do some problem solving and ended up reattaching part of the page protector that I had cut off (the part with the hole punched in it). It wasn't exactly the look I had intended but it was close enough.

For the little pockets, I attached them to the outside of the page protector so I could easily take the tags in and out. And that made the perfect opportunity to make a see through shaker pocket beneath them. So I looked in my ephemera from the trip and ended up using my hole punch to make my own confetti out of a map I had from Victoria BC. I love how it turned out!

I also pulled out these day of the week strips that I had saved from Week in the Life that made the perfect little heading for the journaling tags.

Check out my process video to see more of how this project came together:

Here are some additional images:

I hope you enjoyed my project! I have more ideas to come with this kit that I am excited to share with you. In the meantime, you can follow along with my other crafting adventures on Instagram (@jill.drangsholt).