almost, LeAnne writes;

I really wanted to catch this phase and had to do lots of talking to get these photos! Finally I managed to talk my son into letting me take photos of him, before he turned 18, just before he turned 18 (6 days in fact!). So he was almost an adult.

As a dedicated scrapbooker and mother to four sons, three of whom are now adults, I am so excited that the companies are bringing out whole collections that can work for boys, teenagers and the men in our lives!

This Cosmo Cricket range called Get Happy, is fun and busy without being over-powering, perfect for teenage pages. I teamed it with the Hambly Screen print Graph overlay. I got a lot of mileage out of this one sheet of transparency, by cutting it out where it didn't show behind the main photo it meant that i could layer it over and under the other photos. When I placed the main section of the transparency I actually had it go over the two pages. Then secured it behind the photos and cut the pages back in two!

There were so many choices with the Striptease wording, I finally settled on these two, which seemed to sum up this stage in his life and also his own attitude.

One says...
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
and this one....
Someday this will all make sense!

To tie in the black on the transparency I inked around all of the papers with my black ink pad. And used the Big Honkin' Stickers for the title.

At the moment I am really into hidden journaling, so this time I have used a 7 Gypsies evidence cardI wrote on this with my black zig writer and slipped it behind the main photo, the other two tags that are visable are not really tags, I just cut them out of the paper and glued them into place.

The final finishing touch are the Boxer Brads by Basic Grey that I used to anchor the wording strips.

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