a Fantastic Word Art freebie for YOU!

Can you believe that it is the last day of August?! Wow! The summer sure has flown by! The boys start back to school Wednesday! Tanner will be in the 8th grade... geesh, that means next year is high school for him! ACK! Nick is going to be a senior this year! My daughter is super elated that she doesn't have to, now that she graduated from high school this last spring.

Wow! Not just the summer, but where has the time gone!? My Mom always said it goes faster as you get older and then speeds up once you have kids! She wasn't kidding! I'm happy but then sad at the same time. I sure miss those chubby cheeks, good night kisses and holding hands whenever we would go somewhere! Oh the special moments!

Speaking of moments, this charming word art was created by Royal Muse, Bon using my Coffee Bears Kit and both the Black and White Simple Beads Alphabet Sets.

Download here & enjoy!

New Releases - 6/27/10 - Trying to play Catch Up!

Well, it has been super busy around here! How about I bring you up to speed with just a few of the dandy little highlights, ok?!

To start things off, Tanner had a motocross accident May 15th, which required a hospital stay and of course multiple follow-up appointments, which are still occurring weekly. To make this long story short, he broke his left shoulder blade and had a few internal issues, most of which have healed except for his pancreas. He is still going in on a weekly basis for lab work until the blood levels return to normal. His shoulder blade is on the mend but not quick enough for him! LOL

Kaytelynn graduated from high school on June 8th! I'm so proud of her! She is working, is pretty healthy and is now considering creating fonts and maybe even doodles. I can't wait to see what she does with the Wacom tablet and font software that I got for her. She is quite the artist, whether it's painting or even doodling and she's very talented with a digital camera! Kaytelynn lives with her Grandmother, not far from us. I think she is enjoying her independence and finding out what real world responsibilities are like, without the help of Mom. Of course, I am called upon on occasion... I like that I am still needed! Oh, she has even admitted to me that living at home wasn't all that bad! LOL

School for the year finally ended and Nick passed 5 out of 6 classes! I kmew he could do it but to wait until the last week to pull it off, darn near drove us nuts! We flew Justin up from California to visit for the summer. And it's been nothing but busy, chaotic testosterone in this house ever since! I messed up my schedule/routine of taking my medications during all of this hoopla (hospital visits in April - Kaytelynn & May - Tanner)...well, I did what most people do, I figured it was time to just keep on trying to make a go of it without the meds. Now, I know better, I really do! I know that you shouldn't take yourself off of medications! Well, I did it anyways! Yep, you guessed it...panic attacks! A few pretty good ones while out shopping, even with Eric. I had to leave several stores pretty darn quick. I dang near didn't make it to Kaytelynn's graduation, but managed to somewhat hold it together long enough. Soooooo, I'm getting back into my routine of taking my meds again. It's just not the right time to go it alone yet.

Well, even during all of this stuff, I managed to create a 'few' new items for my store. Instead of posting all of the previews individually, I have 1 big preview of all of the items that were released between May 23rd and June 20th. It includes 2011 calendars, printables, date markers, create your own items, and of course a few kits and alphabet sets.

Now that we're all caught up, here are the new items that were just released today!

Many Thanks, New Releases - 4/12/10 plus a FREEBIE for YOU!

This is going to be a somewhat short post but I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers over the last couple of weeks while my daughter was in the hospital. She was admitted April 1st due to a 30% loss of lung function and she had lost a considerable amount of weight since December. She has Cystic Fibrosis. (Learn more here: http://www.cff.org/ ) Well, after 12 very long, very tiring days and nights, she finally got to come home today! While she was there, she put on 8 pounds with the help of Lipids that they just pumped right into her, along with all of the other antibiotics and stuff. She is feeling much better although her lung finction is not as high as it once was, but I am hopeful that over time, maybe she will be able to regain that. This was her very first hopitalization like this, and we are hoping that it will be her last!

We can't thank you all enough!
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New items have hit the shelves at Scrapbook-Elements!
Stop by and check them out!











Oh the Royal Muses have been busy cleverly crafting some beauties for you all! Today's lovelies were put together by Bon and Charne! Be sure to leave them a little love!



Download here!

2 fractured wrists, 1 fractured elbow and some freebies!

Well, Friday the 13th isn’t even here yet, so we were a week early with bad luck!


To start things off, on Saturday, January 31st, Tanner was at his Dad’s for the weekend and they went to practice for a motox race. He crashed pretty good and went head over handle bars (several times, I later found out and then crashed a few more times because he couldn’t hold onto the handle bars)… but the arse (my ex) made it sound like it wasn’t a big deal. We took Tanner to urgent care for what the docs thought was a stress fracture in his left wrist/arm. They put a partial/splint cast on it and wrapped it with ace bandages so that he could take it off to shower and then we were to go back on Thursday to have is re-checked once the swelling went down. Tanner was instructed to take it easy for the whole week by the doctor. (Yeah right, this doctor doesn't know my kid! LOL)

Before anyone asks, YES, Tanner was wearing full protective gear while riding his dirt bike! Helmet, chest protector etc, etc.

When Tanner came home from his Dad’s on Sunday, he said that his stomach hurt and he felt nauseous. He was that way on Monday too but Tuesday and Wednesday seemed to be getting better.

On Wednesday, February 4th, while I was at work, Tanner decided to go skateboarding, which he was NOT supposed to be doing because of the wreck on Saturday. Well, he fell and wrecked on the skateboard and hurt his arm at about 3:45pm. I got home about 5:10pm and he finally tells me about 5:40pm because the pain was so bad. Into Urgent care we go again. This time the right arm/wrist hurt and they think that it is broken just above the elbow so they put a partial/splint cast on it and schedule us for Orthopedic Fracture Clinic for the following Tuesday. They also informed us that the results of the first arm x-rays from Saturday is most likely just a very bad sprain but for him to keep the splint on until Tuesday. So both arms are in splints/casts and all that he can do for himself is stand, sit and walk! LOL They went ahead and cancled the appointment for Thursday since he was going to be seen at the fracture clinic the following week.

He wasn’t feeling all that great when we got home Wednesday night which I expected since he hurt his other arm. We kept him home from school on Thursday and Friday. Both days he kept saying he wasn’t feeling good, his stomach hurt and that he felt sick but it seemed to come and go. Friday, he kept getting worse, he was even starting to whine and cry a bit, laying and sleeping a lot on the couch, which is very UNCOMMON for Tanner! He wouldn’t eat either.

On Friday at about 2:30pm, I had Kaytelynn go to the Wendy’s, he wanted fries and a pop…. Even after I tried bribing him to eat ice cream, a frosty or anything that he want and none of that worked so I knew his was seriously not feeling well. He took only a couple of bites of the fries and a drink of the coke and then vomited it all back up. (Oh I was able t get him to eat a banana earlier in the day but that was it.) I took his temp several times throughout the day, which was normal. I called Eric to talk to him about it and then called Kaiser. They said to bring him into Urgent Care that opened at 5:30pm for sign in because there weren't any appointments available.

We go to the Urgent Care, I requested x-rays of his chest and abdomen which they did. They also did a urine sample to see if there was blood in his urine. The doctor stated that she had consulted with several doctors and doctors at Kaiser Sunnyside Hospital in Clackamas, Oregon. They wanted him to have CT scans at Sunnyside for possible internal bleeding/organ injury. That way, if there needed to be any intervention (surgery or whatever) they were more equipped to do it than an Urgent Care.

I drove as calmly as possible from Vancouver, Washington to Clackamas, Oregon, for the 30 minute drive to that hospital. Tanner and I both were just trying to stay calm! We chatted about why we had to go there. He had a lot of questions that I tried to answer as best that I could without scaring him and me! LOL But just tried to reassure him that going to this hospital was just to make sure that he was ok.

We went to the ER as instructed and went directly back to the CT scan are because they were waiting for us. He had to drink a couple of cups of nasty tasting dye that looked like lemon aide and each cup had to be 40 minutes apart. He didn’t like it at all and kept begging me to not make him drink it, that he was going to vomit. I let the doctors know that he was saying that might throw up and they told him to do the best that he could.

He was able to get 2 cups of that nastiness swallowed and then they gave him an IV in his left arm (we had to take off one of the splints so that they could.) They took him back to the CT scan and gave him more dye through the IV. After the CT scan they removed the IV and sent us to the waiting room just outside of the ER check in. They called us to the desk and asked us to check in and I thought I was going to faint! They had taken out the IV so I figured things were going to be ok.

After the CT scan, they sent us back to an ER room, where they eventually told us that an ambulance was going to transport Tanner to OHSU/Dorenbecher’s Children’s Hospital and that they needed to get an IV started. Tanner and I both started to cry a bit. That worried us both. Both splints were back on his arms and the doctor and nurses were just peeved that the CT scan people had take out the first IV, so they had to put the IV into his left shoulder because he was becoming dehydrated and his veins were collapsing! While waiting for the ambulance, Eric had shown up which really helped to ease both of us.

Tanner rode in the ambulance (no lights/sirens) with the EMTs by himself, which he was ok with. They weren’t really waiting for us so Eric and I both drove our own vehicles following the ambulance to the children’s hospital. I had no idea that it was going to be such a long drive…. At least it felt that way. My ex-husband, Troy was there waiting for us to arrive (he is a story all unto himself through this whole ordeal and dang near drove me, Tanner, the doctors and nurses nuts!) After being seen in the OHSU ER, the doctors and surgical team reviewed his CT scans and admitted Tanner to Doernbecher’s for a possible spleen laceration/internal bleeding. He was given a room where he was not allowed to eat or drink in case they had to do surgery, but they did put in an IV solution to keep him from getting dehydrated.

They did several blood count tests and measuring of urine output throughout the night and into Saturday. Saturday, February 7th, mid day, they did an ultra sound on his abdomen area. Long story short, they do think that he injured his spleen but didn’t think that there was continuous bleeding. Tanner was actually quite calm and patient through all of this. Later that night, they let him get up and walk around and he was saying he was hungry… so they finally let him eat. After a while, they finally discharged him. LOL We were all wanting to go home.

By Sunday, even though we, the adults were all trashed due to lack of sleep and just a bit of stress, Tanner was already bored and not happy about having to "take it extremely easy." We decided to keep him home for the week for several reasons; he couldn't do much for himself and he was not to do any kind of strenuous activity at all for the first week and then to take it very easy for the following 3 weeks.

Tuesday, February 10th, I took Tanner to the Orthopedic Fracture Clinic, were they found both wrists and the right elbow to have fractures in the growth plates, so that meant 2 full casts!

Now the hard part will be to keep this 12 year old boy from running, jumping and anything else that could cause any further spleen damage while he is supposed to be healing over the next 4 weeks. God helps us all!

I dont know what I would have done without Eric being there for us. He surely helped to keep us all calm! I also don't know what we would have done without my Mom, Diana. She came over to our house, took Kaytelynn shopping for the items to make lasagna and helped her get ready for her high school dance. She made the lasagna for her boyfriend, Gary, before the dance.

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Now that I have written a novel about our little escapades over the last week, how about a freebie or two for you?! Two of our fabulous Royal Muses, Kabra and Bonnie, have put together some wonderful goodies for you all! Kabra created 2 - 4x6 Valentine Cards and Bonnie created some Vaentine word art.

Download here and be sure to leave the gals some love! (No password needed)

Don't forget to subscribe to my blog, there will be a few more goodies for you as the week goes on, since I was unable to get them posted last week and over the weekend!!

Happy 17th Birthday Kaytelynn - SALE!

Today my lovely and talented daughter Kaytelynn turns 17!!

To celebrate this fabulous event, everything in my store is ON SALE

from today, October 13th to October 31st!!

30% to 70% off!

Stock up now on some great scrap kits, alphabet sets, brag books, quick page albums and collections! The holidays are fast approaching so get those hybrid projects, altered art crafts and gifts started!

Don't forget, all of my products are Scrap 4 Hire/Scrap 4 Other friendly with no extra fees or prior approval from me.

Here is a bit of my Terms of Use:

Purchase includes a single professional use license per each individual item. This license is non-transferable (meaning that it is not extended to and may not be sold or given to any other individual or party such as manufacturers, corporations, companies, partnerships or LLC's) and is licensed only to the original purchaser.

I do ask that you purchase the product for each individual client. The product does not have to be purchased at full price and can be purchased and used even if it is on sale. By the way, I like to have sales, as I am a sale shopper myself!

Credit is always appreciated but not required, unless you post completed projects online through e-groups, bulletin boards, galleries, forums, newsgroups, or submit to magazines for possible publication, please include the product title, Kimberly Stewart and 3Scrapateers in the credits.

You may use this product in the following ways for profit. This list is not all encompassing, so if you don’t see it here, email me at kimberlystewart@3Scrapateers.com and ask. Exceptions to these terms of use will be granted on a case-by-case basis, so email me if you have questions. I am pretty easy going.

You May:
· You may use these files for Personal Use and also for Limited Professional Use (e.g. scrap for hire or scrap for others)
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Songbird Avenue & Cystic Fibrosis

Some of you may know already that my daughter, Kaytelynn, has Cystic Fibrosis so this post is very near and dear to my heart. Pure happiness for me would be that they find a cure for CF!

Songbird Avenue has teamed up with Two Sisters Designs, Angela and Emily Powers, for September's kit called "Autumn Woods". 100% of this month's profits will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The kit is only available for the month of September so grab it now!!


From the Songbird Avenue site:

SEPTEMBER 2008: AUTUMN WOODS $8.00

Every kit that we work on at Songbird Avenue is special, and this kit is no exception. We are happy to present "Autumn Woods". Created with love by Angela Powers, Emily Powers, Jan Crowley and Janet Phillips. Funds raised (minus paypal fees) from this kit will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.


From the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation website:

“The mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a nonprofit donor-supported organization, is to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease. The Foundation is the leading organization in the United States devoted to cystic fibrosis. It funds and accredits more than 115 CF care centers, 95 adult care programs and 50 affiliate programs, and has 80 chapters and branch offices nationwide.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is one of the most efficient organizations of its kind with 90 percent of every dollar of revenue raised being available to fund cystic fibrosis research, care and education programs. In fact, Charity Navigator, the country's largest independent evaluator of charities, has given the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation its coveted four-star rating for sound fiscal management. The National Institutes of Health and many prominent publications, including Forbes and USAToday, have heralded our innovative business model, which fuels drug discovery and development programs.”

Included in this kit, Autumn Woods:
16 patterned papers, 8 coordinating solid papers, 1 button with threads, 1 button without threads, 2 fabric buttons (with and without shadows), 1 felt acorn with stitching, 1 felt leaf with stitching, 1 flower, 1 foam stamp tree, scattered gold glitter leaves, 1 leaf sticker, 1 distressed leaf sticker, 1 distressed leaf stamp on paper, 1 scalloped trim note card, 1 white leaf stamp, 4 colored leaf stickers, 1 "memories" stamp, 1 sage leaf, 1 tree decal, 1 squirrel decal, 1 knotted polka dot ribbon, 1 geometric orange transparency, 1 acorn not paper (with and without shadows), 1 tree stamp, 1 tree sticker (with and without shadows), 1 blue polka dot tape, 1 upper case cut out alpha (A-Z), lacquered wooden numbers (0-9), and 1 12x12 inch psd layout template by Janet Phillips. This kit is approximately 180 MB and is four individual downloads.


As a community of caring and giving people, we at Songbird Avenue hope that we can help make a difference together. We appreciate your help supporting these charities and are so proud to be a part of this amazing community. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.


While you are there, check out their blog for an Autumn Woods freebie from Angela and Emily Powers!!

*Free* Classic Elegance September Desktop

I was decorating my desktop with my newest creation Classic Elegance and thought that I would share this with all of you! This is a photo of my daughter Kaytelynn (16 years old), my sons Nick (15 years old) and Tanner (12 years old) that I took at The Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in April of this year.

There are 2 sizes included in the download: 1024x768 px and 1280x800 px

- minus the darling photo of my gang.

Both were created at 300 ppi and are in png format so that you can slip your favorite photo behind it and be done lickity split!

Download here
Password: summer ends