Project Life type pockets for photos?

I cant recommend anything for 12x12 as I use the Project Life brand page protectors for that but for 6x8 I use Simple Stories - cheaper and I like the quality more.

You can always use one size page protectors, put a piece of white cardstock in, then pull it out and attach however many photos you want to it and journal and embellish the page. You don't have to buy the page protectors with the pockets, they tend to be more expensive.

This is me too. I use 2 12x12 albums to store all the page protectors as it makes it easy to flip thru to the size and configuration that will work for my photos.

I prefer the WRMK page protectors, they seal the outside edge and they are thicker. I've heard people have had problems with the outside picks on the Becky Higgins brand splitting.

This almost feels like blasphemy to say on a scrapbooking board, but I still have some of those slip pocket albums that people used to use to hold all their 4x6" prints. I've seen some nice albums at Michaels that are not terribly expensive but I've also found these at thrift shops.

I keep them for storing photos that I have printed and not used, or photos that people send to me that have people I care about in them. They hold extra shots that got printed out and didn't go into a project or that came out of a frame too. Some of them I cut up so that the focus is on the people and backed the smaller photos with 4x6 sheets of patterned paper (I think it was a Sandi Genovese quick scrapbook project I saw many many years ago for all those extra people pix you don't really want to scrap but don't want to toss).

Anyway, I have a couple of fat albums that have two 4x6" prints per page, and hold dozens of (fixed) pages. They're extra to my scrapbook projects, but I'm putting this out here - if you don't want to do a full on project like PL, and don't really want to commit to scrapbooking as such, you can still print photos and have an album to look through. It could be a jumping off point to doing something more involved, or you could just make photo albums and call it done.

Yay, great progress! And it sounds like you got a great deal.

Another option would be the photo albums that are available from department stores like Kohls. They are often 9x12 (three 4x6 horizontal and two 6x4 vertical pockets per page) or 12x12 (six 4x6 pockets) post bound albums. The pros are they are available in a variety of covers (I got a beautiful red faux suede one) and are always on sale. The 9x12 size is easy to handle and I like that there are vertical and horizontal pockets. The cons are they are post bound so a little harder to switch up pages and the pages are a little flimsy.

I plan on mixing the project life style with regular scrapbook pages in our Alaska vacation album. No way I want to make scrapbook layouts for all those pics. I will highlight pics on the pages and use the project life protectors to add pics to the album. I buy mine at Hobby Lobby.