Some More Inspiration for You...

From Lisa Balm - heaps of ideas for themes and gorgeous boy layout inspiration too - Wow Lisa Thanks!

By Deanne Burton a fun summer layout, love the bright colours here and the fun theme - Awesome Deanne!

By Jodi Dolbel, not one but THREE! stunning "boys and their wheels" layouts. Fabulous - thanks Jodi!

Teenz and their Wheels

Hey everyone, I chose the theme this time, inspired by events that happened about a month ago with my youngest teen. He drove his car when he knew full well that he shouldn't as 1-it wasn't legal & 2-he only has his learners license - and here in New Zealand, that means no driving alone... not to mention with a non-licensed passenger & 3 we had taken his keys off him, as we were going out. Anyway you guessed it... he got caught! So as every self respecting scrapbooker should ... I decided to scrap it!!!!!(it's a bit like racing for your camera first when your toddler hurts themselves).
The rest of the team will upload their layouts as they complete them. Of course 'Teenz and their wheels' don't have to be just about cars - you choose your own take on the theme.
I can't wait to see them all.
Enjoy
Lee



Hi everyone, here's my take on Lee's great theme.
Ann


...and here is Ilka's

Here is my take on this theme - another learning to drive LO

:))) Sarah

And more to share...

From our wonderful contributors Deanne Burton and Marci Negranza...

by Deanne

By Deanne

by Marci

We would love to share your layouts on here too, or any teen related projects you have created. Send those pics through to us at scraptheteenz@hotmail.com and we will be sure to feature them here for you.

TTFN, Jo x

Scrap the Sun Fun!

Now I know for many of our readers it is not Summer where you are...but where the Scraptheteenz girls are we are right in the middle of a fantastic summer and had plenty of holiday snaps to scrap because December through January are our summer holiday months. So that is our theme for this fortnight - get out those summer pics of teens having fun and get them in your album. And to help you along here is some inspiration from our team...

By Sarah

By Ann By Lee

By Ilka By Jo
By Lianne

And coincidentally I have found some summer fun layouts in my Scraptheteenz inbox too, so you get even more inspiration this time. These fun layouts are by Karen Haywood.

Food Glorious Food!

Hi everyone - happy new year. All the scrap the teenz contributors live downunder and we have been soaking up the sun down here and enjoying our summer holidays so we apologise for the lack of action around here! But we are back and raring to go with fresh new ideas for ways to scrap those sometimes difficult to scrap teen years.The theme we have chosen this fortnight is food and our teens relationship with it. The teen years can be so busy and food is often something grabbed in a rush and usually of the fast food variety it seems (or at least that's how it is in this house!) Gone are those days when you had much of a say over what they are putting in their mouths, and as one of our blog contributors, Sarah says: To think that I worried about them not having a balanced diet as toddlers!Anyway, without further ado, here are some ways that we have tackled the subject of food and teens in our pages. Enjoy!

Oh and if you have pages you would like us to post here on the blog as inspiration for others please don't hesitate to send them through to us at: scraptheteenz@hotmail.com

Jo x

By Ilka

By Ann

By Sarah

By Jo

By Lianne

Busy, busy

Sorry we have been a bit awol but it is a busy time of year isn't it! Here is some eye candy to keep you going though.

From Karen Haywood - love the attitude here!

And from Marci Negranza, gorgeous girl layouts.

And from Dea Burton lovely pictures of her teenage guys (sorry it has taken me so long to post these ones Dea)

Scrap the Talk!

Sometimes it seems like teenagers have their own language, especially when they get together with their friends. We wanted to capture some of the funny things they say or ways they speak at this time of their lives, so that is our inspiration theme for you this time - scrap some of those funny expressions they use or words that seem to keep cropping up in their conversation (keep it clean people lol!) or the different ways they talk around their friends compared to how they speak around adults. Here are some layouts from the team to get you started...


From Ann - I love the way Ann has given a translation for each of the expressions - I'm sure you will recognise some of these!


From Ilka - Don't the photo and accents fit the theme perfectly!

From Lianne - it's hard to tell from the pic but the top of the layout above the wave is transparent - very cool for this surfy themed layout.

And from me (Jo) a layout about my daughter's favourite word at the moment - lol.

But wait there's more!

First I must apologise to these talented ladies for the ridiculously long amount of time it has taken me to get around to putting these on the blog but check out how cool they are:


By Jennifer Johnson

How clever is Jennifer? Not only does she rock teen layouts but she rocks boy and girl layouts too!


And by Michele Stone

This layout manages to be humorous and poignant all at the same time and is about a time that all us parents of teens will be facing in the not too distant future. Check out the fabulous journalling below:

After fighting and screaming at each other for the last few months about being responsible and acting like an adult if you want to be treated like an adult (that was me) and not being a baby anymore, nor having to follow rules and being able to do what she likes (that was her) we finally arrived at this day.

We both wanted it - it was definitely time! Time for my little girl to venture out on her own - so that she could see how great she’d had it at home (me again), so that she could do what she liked, when she liked without having the oppression of her mother telling her what to do (yep that was her).Even with this knowledge and the promise of freedom (for both of us)....we cried!

It was a big moment for us - her raiding the cupboard as she ran out the door, and me moving my craft stuff into her old bedroom - but then it hit me that she was leaving and that an era of our lives was over - another one just beginning.

It’s not like she was moving cities and I’d never see her again - she comes into work 3 mornings a week to help out in the office and comes home on the odd occasion for a decent meal and to use the computer - but this door has closed (and locked!! - me lol) and we can now move on to a different stage in our relationship.

Change can be exciting, but we can still feel a little sad.

Scrap the Extremes!

Okay time for a new theme. My family has just been on a recent holiday to a place that has all sorts of extreme things to do...you know like bungy jumping etc. and the teens with us couldn't wait to try everything while the adults were a lot more cautious (or in my case downright chicken!). This got me thinking about how the teens is often a time when you think you are ten foot tall and bulletproof and have no fear. Now I put this to the team and not all of them agreed with me, seems there are also some very cautious teens out there and thank goodness for that! But we still thought we would scrap pages about our teenz extremism (is that a word?) or lack thereof as the case may be. So why don't you give it a go...if you have an extreme teen scrap some of the crazy things they do, or if you have a cautious teen scrap about something they have done that would have been considered extreme for them. Here are our takes on this idea:

By Lianne

By Ilka

By Lee

By Ann

By Sarah

By Jo.