Welcome

Hi all, the team would like to say hello and welcome aboard to our newest team member,
MICHELE STONE

Michele is a mum to two girls and is a fabulous digi scrapper.
Welcome Michele, we look forward to seeing your digital creations
and are excited to have you on the team.

Here's one of Michele's layouts...


Gorgeous!

Achievements

Hi there teen scrappers.

Adrienne here to start the ball rolling with scrapping "teen achievements". All our teens achieve at some level but often we need to show them that they can achieve anything if they just try.... This sentiment was the inspiration for my layout. John and the boys went on their first-ever trip to the snow last year and learnt how to ski. Not only had the boys never seen snow, they had no idea how to walk on it ..... let alone ski! They had a quick lesson and then a long practice session .... They had their best-ever fun and achieved a new skill (well, almost).

Hope you all have fun with this topic. (P.S. I had such fun with the snowflakes which I have never been able to use before....Yee Haa!!)

Hi, Sarah here. This is my take on this one. Winning the Westlake junior 1500m race and setting a new school record was a real buzz for my youngest son, Adam. Hi All...Ann here.
My layout for this theme is about the achievements my daughter made at college, i wanted her to be able to look back later on and see just how well she had done at school.
Lianne - We were so proud when James was picked and sponsored to go on the Spirit of New Zealand. He had the most amazing time, one he will never forget. When I showed him the LO he got the map out and showed me where they went again it was great for him to reminisce this wonderful part of his life. I used this gorgeous NZ fabric on this LO, the fabric has these cool blocks of designs which I cut out with jac paper attached to the back (makes it easy to cut fabric) and mounted some on chipboard randomly to give a 3D effect.

Dislikes/fears theme

Heya everyone, Ilka here. This months theme is dislikes or fear. That can be the big or the little things.

I chose Chris's dislike of raw tomatoes, he really really hates them. But he loves anything made with processed tomatoes! Go figure;p


Lianne's gorgeous LO features her daughter Emma's fear of spiders. Here is my take - Chris has a real fear of needles so being a blood donor for the first time was a HUGE deal for him! :)Sarah
When i asked Stephanie to make up a list of her dislikes so i could put them on a layout, the only thing that she could come up with is her dislike of the colour pink.
So here's my take on Ilka's theme using Steph's dislike.
;-) Ann

Hi there scrapping bloggers. Adrienne here. THANK YOU for allowing me the privledge of contributing to this great blog. WOW, What inspiration this blog is for those of us with teens. Sometimes it is hard to find a good way to scrap our "almost adults" in a way which captures this age group and still be acceptable to the teen being scrapped. I often hear "Oh, Mom. How can you use THAT photo!!"

I am trying out new techniques and finding a new style at the moment so all help is welcome.......

I have three boys - Justin who is 18, Sheldon - 15 and Andrew is almost 13. Three teenage boys is quite a handful but then most of you know that anyway...

Chat soon....

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Katie Haddox sent through these wonderful layouts of her teens having fun at Disneyland, thanks for taking the time to share your great layouts with us Katie.







A new theme will be posted this Friday so don't forget to check back here then to see what the team has been up to.
Bye all.
Ann

New Team Member

Hi all,

The Scrap The Teenz team would like to say hello and welcome aboard to our newest team member.

ADRIENNE SCOTT

Adrienne is a mum to teenage boys, is a fab scrapper and we are excited to have her on the team.

Here is a layout she created for Sarah's "Fashion" theme.



Love that t-shirt!
We look forward to more inspiring work from you and welcome aboard Adrienne.

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Shell Honig sent through this great layout about her daughter...



The journalling she added is very touching, lovely work Shell.


This trio of canvas's was created by Shell's daughter, Krystal aged 15 yrs.


She chose 3 4x12 canvases, used the colours from her bedroom and a quote
from the wall of the gym and came up with this canvas trio for her wall.

How clever is this young lady?
Stunning work Krystal and thank you to both of you for sharing your projects with us.
:-)

Off The Page

Hi everyone,
Do you create "off the page" items about your teens?


One very talented lady who loves to create pieces of amazing art work is Wendy Jones.
Wendy made this gorgeous box and adorned it with photos of her lovely daughter accompanied by some beautiful embellishments.

Thank you so much for sharing your project with us Wendy.....it's stunning!







We will be back soon with a new theme, but in the meantime if you would like to share some of your off the page creations, we would love to see them, so send them through to us (the address is in the side bar).

Take care and have a great long weekend.

Teen Fashion theme

Hi Everyone, Sarah here. This month it is my turn to chose the theme. Whilst I was pondering the possibilities my youngest son adam (the family fashionista) bowled into the room, wearing his 17 year old brother's jeans and designer T. His hair was spiked with what looked like at least two tubs of gel. Thats when the idea of a 'Teen fashion" theme occurred to me! I originally intended to do a page about my kids bulging (and ever changing) wardrobes but when I was looking through my older photos it suddenly occurred to me how many different hair styles (and hair colours) that Adam has tried out over the last two years. My page just came together from there. Look forward to seeing everyone elses takes on this one.

:)))Sarah

James was proudly showing me his latest purchases from the Op Shop (poor uni student, LOL) and he was saying this is what everyones wearing. Then it occured to me I could do my LO about this, so he let me take some photos and voila here it is.

When I heard we were doing 'fashion' I knew I wanted to do a little spin on those fashion magazine pages that show the 'star' and 'the how to get the look';p
So here's what's hot -according to Chris. Actually I rather like the way he dresses these days!

Hi everyone, Ann here.
I'm running a bit late posting my layout this time, but better late than never right?
Josh has a wardrobe that basically consists of black shorts and a selection of Linkin Park t-shirts (this just happens to be his favourite band) and seeing as he's not really a fashionista i thought i'd just scrap his basics.

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Hi Everyone,
Lisa Balm sent in this fab layout of her teen.....Thanks Lisa.
It's great to see another interpretation of the Teens and their grandparents theme.




If you would like to see your work showcased on the blog, then please send your work through to scraptheteenz@hotmail.com

We will be back soon with a new theme, so watch this space ;-)
Ann

Teens & their Grandparents

Hi all,
Ann here and it's my turn to choose the theme this time around.

For a while now i have wanted to scrap a layout using photos of my two teens and their grandparents (so it was easy to set the theme this time...lol)

Growing up, my two grandmothers were a very important part of my life so i'm overjoyed that my teens have amazing grandparents who are always there for them.

This theme doesn't have to be just about grandparents, does your teen look up to an older member of their family?
Perhaps an aunt or uncle or cousin?...Anyone who your teen admires and respects.

The team will upload their layouts as they complete them and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.

So please send your layouts through to scraptheteenz@hotmail.com

Bye everyone.

Ann

Lianne's LO

Sarahs LO

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.