Who still does Project Life, or Pocket Page Sbooks?

It's the only scrapping I do and I love it!

I do a hybrid version of traditional layouts and pocket style pages. Definitely more pocket style pages if I'm being honest. I still scrapbook chronologically by event. Never did get into that photo a day or week/month in review nonsense lol. Pocket pages are great when you are scrapbooking a vacation or holiday where you have a lot of photos and/or memorabilia - at least for me.

I only did PL for a couple of years. I don't have much space for albums and I don't have kids, I just did them for myself. I don't think they're out - just not flavor of the month anymore. But tons of people I follow on Instagram still make PL albums.

I'm curious what your son liked so much about them. Was it the everyday details? or maybe the less artsy/decorated style? I know some non-scrapbookers don't really understand the idea of one photo on a page with lots of embellishment.

This. I scrap by the month. But things with in the month are usually by a theme and not necessarily chronological.

I have done weekly PL spreads from 1/1/18-2/18/18. Currently working on the next week in February. I have also done two traditional layouts. I love both but am REALLY loving my PL spreads this year because it's getting my favorite daily photos off of my phone to look at and enjoy. I only do 8 /2 x 11 for layouts and PL spreads. I find it works better for me and it's easier to store. Last year I didn't scrap a thing! This year I am enjoying what I am doing.

   I do a combo too but a greater number of traditional layouts with pocket pages for smaller stories...

Ditto all the above.  Pocket pages is so much faster and easier for me.  I do love a traditional layout, and will do some...but for now, pocket pages.

My kids love the PL albums. That is why I do them. I have simplified my process. I print 4x6 photos without editing to fit a certain size pocket, and I print journaling on plain white cardstock. I also do my spreads monthly - sometime quarterly if I get behind, but they are still organized monthly.

Keep it simple! I hope you finish a whole year this time!

I have done PL style albums, I call them our yearbooks, since 2013.

I don’t do PL... just don’t have enough to document each week! But I have recently done a couple of pocket pages and inserted them into my regular albums. I really struggled with the first page I did, and wasn’t sure I even liked it, but when I looked at it again a few weeks after, I decided I need to use these types of pages more often! I definitely like the look!

We do this ALL THE TIME. I love grabbing an album to double check a specific detail. Or sometimes OH will be like 'what did I eat that day at xx?' - I whip out the album and show him!

I have done Project Life consistently since 2013 and don't think it is anything I will stop. I do also create traditional pages, but I typically include these in my project life albums or in a few additional albums (for pages that don't relate to what is going on right now, such as scrapbooking an old photo from my childhood). I have switched overtime doing monthly, weekly, or just filling an album as I go. I love the idea of capturing everyday life instead of just "big events" big enough for traditional pages. I also find that traditional pages take way more time to complete and I wouldn't have time to document everything that way. I think that project life style is a scrapbooking style that is here to stay--not really a "trend" anymore but just an alternative or supplement to traditional pages. While styles within each scrapbook type will evolve over the years, I think the basic concept of pocket pages is here to stay.

I think that project life is just so easy to keep up with, traditional layouts take so much more time for me. I've found a good balance between the two that really works for me--all of my traditional layouts get sandwiched into my project life with probably 4 layouts per month (and about 4 weekly spreads). I tend to do 9x12 or 8 1/2 x 11 traditional pages so that they are smaller than the project life sleeves, but sometimes I do 12x12. I do traditional layouts for bigger events or stories I want to tell and everything else for the month ends up in the pocket pages surrounding it. One thing that makes project life easier to keep up with is the idea that i can print photos in bulk and slip them in pockets and go back and add in cards/embellishments/journaling in shifts... in contrast with a traditional spread i really feel like i need to complete a layout start to finish in one sitting.

I agree with what someone previously mentioned about asking your son why he likes those albums more. I think you should also assess your creative process and figure out what works best for you. I don't think you should worry about what is "trendy" and really just worry about what process works for you and your family. I really don't know, but from reading your post it seems like you might've had trouble keeping up with project life because you were adding it in addition to all your regular traditional layouts. I think you need to think of it in terms of the total scrapbooking you do and divide your time between the two projects as you see fit--but expect that if you are going to devote time to project life, you probably need to reduce your goals for traditional pages. Maybe an approach similar to what i'm doing will work for you because you still get to create traditional pages, but it's all one project rather than having to keep up with two separate projects at once.

I do about 75% project life. Tossing my Becky Higgins core kits and finding other items to use (various kit clubs, in store products, printables) has made it much more fun. I don't round corners anymore and I have no issue combining items with rounded corners and those with square.

I still love traditional 12x12 layouts, but I'm much more inclined to use one larger photo on my layouts, a moment or photo that is meaningful. I really never enjoyed multiple photo layouts of things like birthdays or Christmas. For me, that stuff goes in PL.

I too have noticed my kids gravitate to the PL style albums. So much so that they now have a PL style album of school stuff and one for each of their sport/activities. Helps keep what goes in the monthly PL more manageable.

In 2014 a friend of mine posted something about project life on her facebook page. I had never heard anything about it and was not doing any scrapbooking at the time. I asked her about it and she introduced me to PL (along with Studio Calico and Becky Higgins and all the rest). I made a few pages in 2014. I started in January of 2015 keeping one 12x12 page of PL per week. I really enjoy this type of memory keeping and it led me into other forms of crafting (mixed media, traditional 12x12, photography, painting, etc). I love looking back at the albums and I have found that friends and family do as well. As far as "where do I get cards?" I have to say that I have a large stash of the Becky Higgins cards, Studio Calico, and some others. I do not mind mixing rounded or square corners. I also like to cut 6x6 paper pads to make more 4x6 or 4x4 cards to mix and match with all of the 3x4 cards I have.