Engagement Party

As many of you know, my BFF Beth and her husband Mark were hosting an engagement party for us this past weekend. It was AWESOME!! The food was amazing, the decorations were perfect and we all had a grand time.

My mom, Troy's mom, brother and sister flew in for the party. As well as a high school friend of Troy's and his wife. We were surrounded by friends and family, and had a WONDERFUL time, and we truly appreciate everyone coming out to celebrate our love.

Here are a couple pictures from the evening.

The Happy Couple

Me helping with the prep work right before the party.

Maritza (Troy's mom), Troy, Me, and my mom, Judy

Troy and I with Beth and Mark, our awesome friends and hosts of the party.

The food table. Everything was so beautiful and delicious. Beth totally outdid herself.

So for those that know Troy - he LOVES Ketchup. And since we won't have enough people at the wedding to do a grooms cake I thought we'd do it at the engagement party. My mom has been decorating cakes for years and agreed to do the cake. A Heinz Ketchup bottle shaped one. :) Troy loved it!!! Thank you mom for helping me pull off such an awesome suprise for him. The cake was perfect!!

Troy with his cake!

Thanks to everyone that came out and celebrated with us. We are so blessed to have such amazing friends and family. XOXOXO

Just a quick post so you all don't think I dropped off the face of the earth. :) I'm still here. Things have just been a bit crazy around here the last two weeks, and it's only going to get worse.

The engagement party is less than a week away. And guess what that also means...the arrival of our families is only days away!! YIKES! My mom arrives Thursday night and Troy's Family on Friday morning. This will be the first time Troy's family has been up to visit since we started dating. So I've been CLEANING and organizing the house like you would not believe. I'm an organizational freak as it is, but add the future in-laws coming for their first visit....I'm over the top. LOL But it's all good. Just so much to get done.

On top of being the Queen of Clean I've also been helping on a new messageboard that a friend on the Cricut Messageboard created. Things are going well there. Lots of great people have joined - membership is at 700+ and we have over 8,000 posts already. If you haven't already joined, come check it out http://www.fromctoshiningc.com

Well that't the quick run down of what's been going on here the last two weeks. I'll get a few pictures posted next week after the engagement party.

Have an awesome week everyone! :-)

Party Dress

So our engagement party is THREE weeks from tonight. I realized the other day that I probably should start thinking about finding a new dress for the party. On Friday two friends from work and I went out shopping during lunch. I wasn't even thinking about the dress....but they had two racks of spring dresses. I remember touching one of the dresses that I liked the colors on, but it was some stiff material so I walked away. While Dominique made a 2nd trip into the dressing room I started to wander about the store again....and this dress just called out to me. I grabbed it and headed for the dressing room. The reaction of Dom and some stranger as I walked out of the dressing room was enough to seal the deal.

It's very light weight and comfortable. I LOVE IT!!

You'll have to check back after April 25th to see pictures of me in it! :-)

I'M IN LOVE

.....that's what I SHOUTED tonight when I stamped my first image with my Stampin' Up! Inspired By Nature set using the Stampin' Write Markers. I had played around with the markers the other night on the Pocket Silhouettes stamps. But OMG the look it gives on a bigger stamp like Inspired by Nature......AMAZING!!

Then......I SCREAMED (and I think I scared Beth) when I stamped my first image using the Watercolor Wonder Crayons. BEAUTIFUL!!!

I'm so in love!! Of course this means I now must have the other 3 sets that I don't own of the markers and crayons.

Here are the four cards I stamped tonight. This is all I got done because after the stamping I just sat and admired them for quite some time. :-)

I only put the bow on one - I thought the cards were so pretty they didn't need anything more. Plus no bow makes for easier mailing.


This one is the Markers. Chocolate Chip, Brocade Blue and Always Artichoke (grass is Mellow Moss - you can see it in the picture above)

This one was with the Crayons. Chocolate Chip, More Mustard and Old Olive.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Just a few cards

I haven't posted any cards lately so thought I'd get a few posted that I've done over the last few weeks. I'm finally starting to remember to take pictures before giving them to their recipients.

This first one is my all time favorite that I've made to this point. This is made with the Rose Rhapsody SU Set. LOVE IT!

Pocket Silhouettes is another of my favorites.

And this adorable little guy is a SCAL file I downloaded. He was too cute and my mom loves teddy bears so I had to have him.

Well it's bedtime, so I'll have to post more tomorrow. Not much scrapping tonight - just playing with my new SU Markers....I can already tell I'm going to have a lot of fun with those.

Hello, my name is Tammy and I'm a Stampin' Up! addict

Well they say the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I am so addicted to the Stampin' Up! products it's not funny. Though I don't believe that me admitting it is really going to stop me from buying. :) That's part of the reason I signed up to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, to help pay for my addiction.

I signed up last week and my Starter Kit and first order arrived today. Three boxes - two of which weighed over 30 pounds. It's all Beth and Mandy's fault. :) Beth got me hooked on scrapbooking about a year ago and well the rest is history. Then we, wait I think it was actually BETH, met Mandy on the Cricut Message Board. Well Mandy is a Stampin' Up! demo (a darn good one might I add), and she helped answer some questions for us about stamping, and before we know it Beth and I are hooked. So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em right?

Here is the WHOLE stash that arrived today (starter kit and my first order).

So let's break it down. This is the "tools" from my Starter Kit. Chalks, Blender Pens, Adhesive, Versamark pad, stamp cleaner and pad. And the cardboard is the Home Decor element I was able to get with the starter kit as well. It's the Baroque Flourish and little flowers in Chocolate Chip. ...it's really cool.

Stamp Pads...got to pick 5. I went with the naturals and the one In-Color I didn't already have. I've bought two of the stamp familes already, and am on the fence on if I'll buy the other two families, or just pick the ones I like out of the sets.
And my Stamps....Garden Greetings, Baroque Motifs (Beth has this one and I love it), Full of Life, On Your Birthday and Lovely Letters Alphabet (great for monogram cards).

So remember I said I was an ADDICT - the stampin up paper is one of my major weakness. Did I say MAJOR, yep. Here you can see the stack of 12X12 (left) and 8.5X11 (right) packs I got with a ruler in between them. Hard to read I know...3 inches on the left and 6 inches on the right....that's 9 inches of cardstock. OMG! But in defense, 6 packs on the right are of Baja Breeze which is one of my wedding colors, and just so happens to be an In-Color and will be retired at the end of June. And the wedding isn't till May 2010. Yep over a year...so I am stocking up on the paper since I intend to make my invites and announcements.

Ribbon, more stamp pads (see that Tangerine Tango one? Somehow I ended up ordering one in my starter and one in my order as well....Julene that one is all your fault!!). I had to get a set of the markers and crayons to try....you can't be a good demo if you haven't used the products right? (Yep that's what I keep telling myself). And a few ink refills.

I so can't wait to play with two of these next ones. The Simple Flower Embosslit cuts and embosses. And the Manhattan Flower embossing folder. I've seen some beautiful cards with these two.
Again - a demo can't do her job if she hasn't tried all the tools. :) So some of the daubers and sponges. And Twill tape
The stamp sets from my order - Echoes of Kindness (Hostess Level 1 gift), Inspired by Nature (oh man I've drolled over this one for a while now), and off in the distance - 3 of the Sale-A-Bration sets that you can pick from for every $50 you spend. These are extra sets (I already have all the sets in my personal collection - see told you I am an addicted), that I thought would make cool door prizes for a party or workshop.



So now the fun part........PLAYING!!! Not sure how much I will get to play tonight as it's pushing bedtime, but you can bet I'll be spending a lot of time in Scrapper's Paradise after work this week. I'll post some projects later in the week.

So there ya have it.....I am an addict, and LOVIN' every minute of it! :) Thanks Beth and Mandy!

Good Night all!

Engagement Party Invites

For those that don't know...though I can't imagine anyone not knowing (LOL).....I'M GETTING MARRIED!!! Troy proposed on Christmas Eve. Anyhow, back to the reason for this post....my Best Friend Beth and her husband Mark are throwing us an engagement party (yes Engagement Party #2 for those that follow my blog closely). It just so happened to work out that Troy's mom, brother and sister along with my mom are able to fly in for this one. We are all so excited.

Okay back on track again....these are the invites that Beth and Kelly made for the party. They are so BEAUTIFUL!! My wedding colors are Blue - specifically Stampin' Up!'s Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy. And since we are getting married on the beach in St Thomas we had to go with a beach theme. I love them!

The top part of the inside (don't have Troy home tonight to photo shop out Beth's address and phone # and didn't think she'd appreciate me posting that on the internet).