I decided to use PL for things with lots of pictures, like the pictures from my daughter's plays and our trip to California. It's tough to do a 12x12 layout or two and leave tons of pictures just sitting. So far, I've only bought the pages. None of the core kits or other kits really appeal to me. Plus, I have tons of scrapbook paper and supplies and I can't see spending more money on new stuff. I love the chatbooks! I do upload pictures to my FB that don't need their own scrapbook page, but it'd be cool to look back at what I was doing and how I was feeling. Thx for the heads up on that!
Thanks for sharing this resource with us, Jen - I had never heard of Chatbooks. This is the first of your videos I've seen; just kind of "stumbled onto" it - and am glad I did. I also wanted to send my condolences on the loss of your loved ones. May you find comfort and peace in remembering earlier happy times with these who were so special in your life. Blessings to you ...
Lisa Folkmann Thanks so much Lisa for your kind words! If you are thinking about getting Chatbooks, you can use my code to get your first book free. It's in the description for this video. Thanks again!
TFS!!! My condolences on yet another loss of family. May God surround you with peace. We are not going anywhere! See ya when you return! Appreciate all you do in showing us your talents!
Thank you for your assessment of PL for documenting my life with my daughter...I think that I will try to use the PL system for "major parts" of her life (and mine as her costume designer and '"chauffeur". Her "dance years"...(ages 2 thru part of college) - using PL for just that aspect of her life may work - showing the competitions, her dance studio life, competitions, her beloved teachers & friends....all wonderful memories for me - and for her. (I may look into their digital "Project Life" system so that others can access this part of their lives together!) Since I'm not much of a "decorator" or "scrapbooker" (which is what has gotten me into this situation of BOXES of photos, memorabilia & ribbons, I think organizing them into a binder, limiting my "decorating", but focusing on journaling along the way may get these precious photos, etc. into binders, chronologically and my focus staying within ONE aspect of her "growing up years" SHOULD help me to figure out how I want handle documenting, storing & decorating the rest of her life.... YOUR assessment of the PL system was immensely helpful! .....and I'm definitely looking into doing the chatbooks for both of our IGram photos!!
Thanks for sharing this, it looks awesome and I am going to give it a shot. Just an FYI, looks like the price went up just a bit, now 8.00 per book, but that's still pretty decent for 60 photos, all ready bound!!
I'm just starting to try Project Life and I saw your video. I think I want to do both! Thanks for sharing. I think both will be super fun! I love that if I don't have time to do a Project Life page, I can always have my photos printed in this great little book at a very reasonable cost!
Your PL album looks good! I liked your pages. Thanks so much for sharing your Chatbooks. I love IG and I post the majority of my photos on IG rather than FB so I would love to order these books. I'm sorry for your loss. Hugs, Jen
Sorry to hear about your grandma and uncle. Looking forward to seeing more videos when you get back. This is a neat idea. I hadn't heard of the app before. Might need to think about it.
Enjoyed your project life & Sorry for your loss. Many Blessings and Smiles :) I do hope you continue project life cause I thought it was Beautiful. I would say take your time with it and make it fun for you. I do like the idea of volumes that's a nice idea.
TFS. I agree with you about wanting to do too much to the project life pages. I love to add stuff to my layouts and its hard to do that on PL pockets. I also love those little insta book. cheaper than trying to print yourself. I am sorry for all your loss lately. Hugs to you and your family prayers too ! have a safe trip and will be looking forward to your return.
I do totally hybrid pl - I don't try to do it weekly or keep "current". I am using the format, as well as interspersing 12X12 pages throughout when a picture/pictures are outstanding. I even use my ATG to tape two pages together if I want to use a different pocket page than what I previously used (gasp!) but it works well for me and I am getting lots of pages in albums that my grown children have never previously seen!
I use Chatbooks too. They are great-automatic memory keeping for everyday moments. I did Project Life for the entire year of 2014-although on a much simpler scale. I love my album and am glad I did it. I really would like to be more disciplined to do it again, but in the app form.
I'm so glad I watched this. I just did some searching and the other companies are WAY more expensive. Chatbooks is now $8 but the book is nice and the shipping is free. another company does 40 images (doesn't include your photo captions, boo!) and costs like $25 with shipping for only 40 images. So, $8 for 60 images with captions is totally the way to go. I like that I can combine all 3 of my instagram accounts each time into one book. You've made my day. Great video.
I've been doing project life (just started in January!) and loving it but I also love the Chatbooks idea! Thanks for sharing yours! I hadn't heard of it but I will definitely be checking that out! They look so nice! And the price is amazing! :) So glad I found your channel!
Just now watching this video and I couldn't agree more that Project Life actually seems more difficult for me! I hate being stuck with a certain pocket page style when I turn the page and have new memories to work with that may call for a different page style. I know I could just put patterned paper, but that seems wasteful and would make my scrapbook disconnected. I also don't like seeing the pages between the seams - make the page look chaotic to me. Designers often seem to put the page on a solid surface for photographing because it looks so much better that way. Thanks for the tip on Chatbooks - I will totally check that out!
Scrap booking in general is like that. This is why I'm always on and off with scrap booking. It's just too much effort going into a week worth of photos/journaling.
loved you project life! I had a go too but couldn't keep it up as if something feels like a chore, its not fun anymore! Love those little books though, and a fun and easy way to document the every day life. I am sorry to hear about your uncle :( Take the time you need, enjoy your renovations as well, we will still be here when you get back! :)
I can totally relate. I cannot, for the life of me, get my pages to come out. Making sure I had the right size "whatever" for the opposite side of a sleeve was just too much thinking, and agonizing. I like the look of it, but have never found any tips as to how to actually PLAN the pages.
I'm sorry to hear about your Grandmother & Uncle. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that thinks that project life is a bit too much work. I like the whole idea but... My solution was to sprinkle it through my 12x12 albums. TFS.
Oh Lord, I was so excited about the book I did not give you my condolences. As a Hospice nurse, perhaps that should have been my leading comment. Thoughts and prayers to your family.
Wow!!! What a huge step. I can imagine that you have mixed feelings with your decision; on one hand you probably miss PL and may feel nostalgic at times but on the other hand, you must have such a weight taken off your shoulders and such a freeing feeling. Good for your for deciding on what works best for you. Nayla Canellas
Thank you for sharing about Chatbooks. That is an awesome view of daily life! I will be more intentional about my instagram photos. I've done PL for 6 years, and I need to change as I have way too many albums. This system you use is perfect. Again I thank you. Blessings to you in your absence.
Thank you for sharing this. I think it is just what we've been looking for. I'm not a scrapbooker otherwise I would subscribe to your channel. But this is an awesome option for us non-scrapbookers.
VaranoFam Glad you found it helpful! If you are looking to try out Chatbooks, feel free to use the code in the description above to get your first one free. :)
Thanks for sharing I was doing project life but life gets in the middle of everything and it's hard to keep up, and I only started because of Instagram so I will check out chat book thanks😂
Just want to say to you your project life is so beautiful ... :-( hope one day you restart ... Don't understand all you say because I'm French but I really love your work (and I understand it's too much work). Love from Paris
I just found your channel and I am loving your videos!! :) I subscribed! Your project life album is beautiful! I have been wanting to start doing project life but I don't want it to become to much work. Maybe I should just do a few pages here and there so its not so overwhelming. Thank you for sharing about Chatbooks. Your little books are so cute! I will have to look into that app! :)
Glad to have you here! I think Project Life is a great solution for many, but it just wasn't the right fit for me. Good luck in whatever you choose to do! Chelsea Green
If I spent that much time on PL I would absolutely hate it. I basically do pictures, a little bit of journaling and filler cards. I may put a label and/or dots on a card or I may just leave them plain. I always think that I would love to have a super embellished beautiful page but mine are just super simple and I love putting them together. I also have really enjoyed going back and looking at my pages. I just started in August of 2014 and I think I will just stick with my simple style. I am glad you shared this so that I don't feel too bad about keeping it simple. Your book is beautiful btw.
Genna Faia Thanks Genna! Like I said, I think everyone just needs to find their groove and I just didn't find mine with Project Life. And that's okay! :)
You were my first introduction to ChatBooks. Interested in the Instagram Series but cannot tell from their web site, so maybe you can tell me, I know it says it prints the "caption." But my captions are almost always just hashtags. Does it print the hashtags, if that is what is in the caption? I assume it does not print the "likers" or the comments? Thank you!
I am glad I watched this. I would not like Project life..to me that would be PROJECT CHORE...I love the chat books..thanks for doing this video..I subscribed and thumbs up..
I was wondering if you know of any other apps that works like Chatbooks. I love this idea but don't post much on Instagram, however, I might now that I know about this!! Thanks for sharing.
Literally me. And I couldn’t stand how u couldn’t make it look neat. Then I realized I liked hybird. If you can’t have everything streamlined and match perfectly.... then it just simply must be a complete mish mash to “work”. Colors. Black and white. Heavy embellishment. No embelishments, project life and 12s all together in harmony. Also in typing this I admit I’m about three years behind on my project life. And about 15 or 20 years behind in general . Lol
The little books you showed are cute. I really like your PL style but I understand not being able to keep that pace. I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss :(
Chatbooks seem to be pretty cool, only thing I don't like is that photos are on both sides of the pages. I pocket scrapbook my photos, albeit very simply. A question for you..... Is this a subscription and can you choose pictures that are not in instagram, but on your phone to be put into the book? Thanks for sharing! So sorry to hear about your loss. Bless you and yours!
~ Kimmer Chatbooks actually has three options for books. One is Instagram photos where, like I mentioned, it automatically downloads any photos you've posted to Instagram. The next book is why Chatbooks is named Chatbooks. You can connect with somebody else and send each other messages and photos and put that into a book. The last way is customized. You can add whatever photos you choose. It's really versatile and very inexpensive!
Can you use it without connecting to your Instagram? Can you also pick whichever pics you want? Eg. It doesnt have to be every Instagram pics? Can you also do a collage on it with different pics and different captions/more journaling.
I love Project life however these are so cute!! hmmmm... maybe I could do both??? might be over kill. Either way I am glad you found something that works for you
I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes! You'll have to let me know if you try it!
how did you manage to get the date to be day.month.year im in australia and its confusing to me when it shows up on the app at month.day.year which is the us version but i notice yours isnt that way, did you change it in the settings or did it just turn up that way??
Shari - you should be able to tap on the photo and then there should be something that says "add caption" or if there are already words there you can tap the words and it will let you edit them.
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Prayers for you and your family on the loss of your grandmother and uncle. Thanks for sharing the Chatbooks app. Hugs Lisa
I decided to use PL for things with lots of pictures, like the pictures from my daughter's plays and our trip to California. It's tough to do a 12x12 layout or two and leave tons of pictures just sitting. So far, I've only bought the pages. None of the core kits or other kits really appeal to me. Plus, I have tons of scrapbook paper and supplies and I can't see spending more money on new stuff.
I love the chatbooks! I do upload pictures to my FB that don't need their own scrapbook page, but it'd be cool to look back at what I was doing and how I was feeling. Thx for the heads up on that!
Thanks for sharing this resource with us, Jen - I had never heard of Chatbooks. This is the first of your videos I've seen; just kind of "stumbled onto" it - and am glad I did. I also wanted to send my condolences on the loss of your loved ones. May you find comfort and peace in remembering earlier happy times with these who were so special in your life. Blessings to you ...
Lisa Folkmann Thanks so much Lisa for your kind words! If you are thinking about getting Chatbooks, you can use my code to get your first book free. It's in the description for this video. Thanks again!
TFS!!! My condolences on yet another loss of family. May God surround you with peace. We are not going anywhere! See ya when you return! Appreciate all you do in showing us your talents!
Thanks for your kind words Ann!
Thank you for your assessment of PL for documenting my life with my daughter...I think that I will try to use the PL system for "major parts" of her life (and mine as her costume designer and '"chauffeur". Her "dance years"...(ages 2 thru part of college) - using PL for just that aspect of her life may work - showing the competitions, her dance studio life, competitions, her beloved teachers & friends....all wonderful memories for me - and for her.
(I may look into their digital "Project Life" system so that others can access this part of their lives together!) Since I'm not much of a "decorator" or "scrapbooker" (which is what has gotten me into this situation of BOXES of photos, memorabilia & ribbons, I think organizing them into a binder, limiting my "decorating", but focusing on journaling along the way may get these precious photos, etc. into binders, chronologically and my focus staying within ONE aspect of her "growing up years" SHOULD help me to figure out how I want handle documenting, storing & decorating the rest of her life....
YOUR assessment of the PL system was immensely helpful!
.....and I'm definitely looking into doing the chatbooks for both of our IGram photos!!
I just ordered my chatbooks. Thank you so much!! Excited to see how they look.
Thanks for sharing this, it looks awesome and I am going to give it a shot. Just an FYI, looks like the price went up just a bit, now 8.00 per book, but that's still pretty decent for 60 photos, all ready bound!!
I'm just starting to try Project Life and I saw your video. I think I want to do both! Thanks for sharing. I think both will be super fun! I love that if I don't have time to do a Project Life page, I can always have my photos printed in this great little book at a very reasonable cost!
I can't believe you don't do PL anymore - you are so incredibly good at it!
I tried PL too. Yes, it felt like a chore! Sometimes I use the divided sheets to make a layout of lots of photos. Thanks!
Your PL album looks good! I liked your pages. Thanks so much for sharing your Chatbooks. I love IG and I post the majority of my photos on IG rather than FB so I would love to order these books. I'm sorry for your loss. Hugs, Jen
Thanks Jen! I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes!
Awesome! Thanks so much!
Sorry to hear about your grandma and uncle. Looking forward to seeing more videos when you get back. This is a neat idea. I hadn't heard of the app before. Might need to think about it.
Enjoyed your project life & Sorry for your loss. Many Blessings and Smiles :) I do hope you continue project life cause I thought it was Beautiful. I would say take your time with it and make it fun for you. I do like the idea of volumes that's a nice idea.
TFS. I agree with you about wanting to do too much to the project life pages. I love to add stuff to my layouts and its hard to do that on PL pockets. I also love those little insta book. cheaper than trying to print yourself. I am sorry for all your loss lately. Hugs to you and your family prayers too ! have a safe trip and will be looking forward to your return.
Thanks so much Netra. I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes!
wow. thanks for that. and you are welcome !
I do totally hybrid pl - I don't try to do it weekly or keep "current". I am using the format, as well as interspersing 12X12 pages throughout when a picture/pictures are outstanding. I even use my ATG to tape two pages together if I want to use a different pocket page than what I previously used (gasp!) but it works well for me and I am getting lots of pages in albums that my grown children have never previously seen!
That's awesome! Everyone just needs to find what works for them. :)
Surleen Singh Dhamoon It generally means mixing digital with traditional or paper products. :)
This is great! I did project like 2013 & 14 but don't think I want to continue! I think this might be for me with the little books!
I'm going to download that app! What a great idea. Thank you for sharing 😘
I use Chatbooks too. They are great-automatic memory keeping for everyday moments.
I did Project Life for the entire year of 2014-although on a much simpler scale. I love my album and am glad I did it. I really would like to be more disciplined to do it again, but in the app form.
I'm so glad I watched this. I just did some searching and the other companies are WAY more expensive. Chatbooks is now $8 but the book is nice and the shipping is free. another company does 40 images (doesn't include your photo captions, boo!) and costs like $25 with shipping for only 40 images. So, $8 for 60 images with captions is totally the way to go. I like that I can combine all 3 of my instagram accounts each time into one book. You've made my day. Great video.
I've been doing project life (just started in January!) and loving it but I also love the Chatbooks idea! Thanks for sharing yours! I hadn't heard of it but I will definitely be checking that out! They look so nice! And the price is amazing! :) So glad I found your channel!
Just now watching this video and I couldn't agree more that Project Life actually seems more difficult for me! I hate being stuck with a certain pocket page style when I turn the page and have new memories to work with that may call for a different page style. I know I could just put patterned paper, but that seems wasteful and would make my scrapbook disconnected. I also don't like seeing the pages between the seams - make the page look chaotic to me. Designers often seem to put the page on a solid surface for photographing because it looks so much better that way. Thanks for the tip on Chatbooks - I will totally check that out!
Scrap booking in general is like that.
This is why I'm always on and off with scrap booking. It's just too much effort going into a week worth of photos/journaling.
Thanks for the chat books app. That's too bad that you don't do project life anymore because you are amazing.
loved you project life! I had a go too but couldn't keep it up as if something feels like a chore, its not fun anymore! Love those little books though, and a fun and easy way to document the every day life. I am sorry to hear about your uncle :( Take the time you need, enjoy your renovations as well, we will still be here when you get back! :)
Thanks Jen. :)
oh my gosh, I love these little books! So glad I stumbled on your video; thank you for sharing; getting this app now :)
Thanks for sharing the chatbooks, I am going to give it a try.
Jen - so sorry about the loss of your family members. Love the chat books. Take care!
Vickie Lee Thanks Vickie!
I can totally relate. I cannot, for the life of me, get my pages to come out. Making sure I had the right size "whatever" for the opposite side of a sleeve was just too much thinking, and agonizing. I like the look of it, but have never found any tips as to how to actually PLAN the pages.
I'm sorry to hear about your Grandmother & Uncle.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that thinks that project life is a bit too much work. I like the whole idea but... My solution was to sprinkle it through my 12x12 albums. TFS.
+stylesformiles79 I am starting to try that now too. :)
Oh Lord, I was so excited about the book I did not give you my condolences. As a Hospice nurse, perhaps that should have been my leading comment. Thoughts and prayers to your family.
What a great idea!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Tracey❤️
Wow!!! What a huge step. I can imagine that you have mixed feelings with your decision; on one hand you probably miss PL and may feel nostalgic at times but on the other hand, you must have such a weight taken off your shoulders and such a freeing feeling. Good for your for deciding on what works best for you. Nayla Canellas
Thank you for sharing about Chatbooks. That is an awesome view of daily life! I will be more intentional about my instagram photos. I've done PL for 6 years, and I need to change as I have way too many albums. This system you use is perfect. Again I thank you. Blessings to you in your absence.
Debbie Clark Thanks so much Debbie! :)
Thank you for sharing this. I think it is just what we've been looking for. I'm not a scrapbooker otherwise I would subscribe to your channel. But this is an awesome option for us non-scrapbookers.
VaranoFam Glad you found it helpful! If you are looking to try out Chatbooks, feel free to use the code in the description above to get your first one free. :)
beautiful layouts. and good point about it being too hard. tfs
Ohh didnt know about chatbooks! Awesome thanks!!!
love the series name too! LOL
Thanks for sharing I was doing project life but life gets in the middle of everything and it's hard to keep up, and I only started because of Instagram so I will check out chat book thanks😂
I love the concept but i would want to embellish too lol.
Tfs & take care 🌹
Love this Jenn!! I'll check out that APP!
I'm sorry for your loss...
Just want to say to you your project life is so beautiful ... :-( hope one day you restart ... Don't understand all you say because I'm French but I really love your work (and I understand it's too much work). Love from Paris
I just found your channel and I am loving your videos!! :) I subscribed! Your project life album is beautiful! I have been wanting to start doing project life but I don't want it to become to much work. Maybe I should just do a few pages here and there so its not so overwhelming. Thank you for sharing about Chatbooks. Your little books are so cute! I will have to look into that app! :)
Glad to have you here! I think Project Life is a great solution for many, but it just wasn't the right fit for me. Good luck in whatever you choose to do! Chelsea Green
I love this soooo much! Thanks for sharing!
I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes!
Great info and details! Thank you!!! :)
new subbie! This chapbook is soooo cool ! N 6 dollars! Thats great thank you for sharing! Hugs~Mel
Lovely PL album but i also find it too much of a chore and I'd rather scrapbook 12x12 or make cards. Interesting option with instgram.
If I spent that much time on PL I would absolutely hate it. I basically do pictures, a little bit of journaling and filler cards. I may put a label and/or dots on a card or I may just leave them plain. I always think that I would love to have a super embellished beautiful page but mine are just super simple and I love putting them together. I also have really enjoyed going back and looking at my pages. I just started in August of 2014 and I think I will just stick with my simple style. I am glad you shared this so that I don't feel too bad about keeping it simple. Your book is beautiful btw.
Genna Faia Thanks Genna! Like I said, I think everyone just needs to find their groove and I just didn't find mine with Project Life. And that's okay! :)
Jen Schow absolutely! I wish I could do beautiful 12x12 pages like you do.
You were my first introduction to ChatBooks. Interested in the Instagram Series but cannot tell from their web site, so maybe you can tell me, I know it says it prints the "caption." But my captions are almost always just hashtags. Does it print the hashtags, if that is what is in the caption? I assume it does not print the "likers" or the comments? Thank you!
Thank you for sharing the little Instagram books. I've been looking for something similar that is low cost!
I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes!
I am glad I watched this. I would not like Project life..to me that would be PROJECT CHORE...I love the chat books..thanks for doing this video..I subscribed and thumbs up..
I actually like your project life it came out really really nice
I was wondering if you know of any other apps that works like Chatbooks. I love this idea but don't post much on Instagram, however, I might now that I know about this!! Thanks for sharing.
your PL album look very good !!
Thanks for the tip
Literally me. And I couldn’t stand how u couldn’t make it look neat. Then I realized I liked hybird. If you can’t have everything streamlined and match perfectly.... then it just simply must be a complete mish mash to “work”. Colors. Black and white. Heavy embellishment. No embelishments, project life and 12s all together in harmony. Also in typing this I admit I’m about three years behind on my project life. And about 15 or 20 years behind in general . Lol
Not you as In you but you as in collective .
cool, I will try this!!!
The little books you showed are cute. I really like your PL style but I understand not being able to keep that pace. I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss :(
Thanks Jane. I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes!
The photo's books are really cool ;-)
Chatbooks seem to be pretty cool, only thing I don't like is that photos are on both sides of the pages. I pocket scrapbook my photos, albeit very simply. A question for you..... Is this a subscription and can you choose pictures that are not in instagram, but on your phone to be put into the book? Thanks for sharing!
So sorry to hear about your loss. Bless you and yours!
~ Kimmer Chatbooks actually has three options for books. One is Instagram photos where, like I mentioned, it automatically downloads any photos you've posted to Instagram. The next book is why Chatbooks is named Chatbooks. You can connect with somebody else and send each other messages and photos and put that into a book. The last way is customized. You can add whatever photos you choose. It's really versatile and very inexpensive!
Jen Schow Thanks for getting back to me. I will have to give it a try!
Can you use it without connecting to your Instagram? Can you also pick whichever pics you want? Eg. It doesnt have to be every Instagram pics? Can you also do a collage on it with different pics and different captions/more journaling.
You can upload any photos from your phone and create captions and customize it and stuff. :)
I love Project life however these are so cute!! hmmmm... maybe I could do both??? might be over kill. Either way I am glad you found something that works for you
I forgot to share, but if you want to try your first Chatbook free, check out the referral code in the video notes! You'll have to let me know if you try it!
wow that is a really good deal!!!
Such a shame they don’t ship to Australia 😰
how did you manage to get the date to be day.month.year im in australia and its confusing to me when it shows up on the app at month.day.year which is the us version but i notice yours isnt that way, did you change it in the settings or did it just turn up that way??
+katie It just turned up that way...not sure how!
thats okay when i went into preview it went that way too! thanks anyway :) just ordered my first boo so excited!!
Hi Jen! This app is so cool. I've downloaded and it says I can get the first book free with your referral code. Do you have one? Thanks! -Shari
Why didn't I think to share that?! My referral code is PMUN2LLE
Thanks Jen! I cant figure out how to add a caption to one of my pics/pages. Do you happen to know how? Thanks again!
Shari - you should be able to tap on the photo and then there should be something that says "add caption" or if there are already words there you can tap the words and it will let you edit them.
I used to do calendrers and it getting so expensive.
Are you still getting chatbooks printed?
+Beth Soler Yes I am!
what is project life?
why don't u do project life?
what is your selfie
+Renee Shultz I meant my Canon Selphy. It's a little printer that does up to 4x6 photos! You can check it out here: amzn.to/1PAP8jY
Only in US and Canada you can order chatbooks 😒
Karin Doorn Sorry Karin!