Thanks a Latte!!

Okay, let me start off by saying that today has been a bit of a bummer!! I woke up this morning to NO internet!! *gasp* Can you believe such a thing?? Just all of a sudden our wireless internet went kaput!! So my honey tried to fix it....then he called Bell and spent an hour on the phone with them. After much 'adjusting', they told us to turn it off for FOUR HOURS!! Then it would magically be fixed!! Well, that's all fine and dandy but I needed to create four cards to teach at a class at the library on Monday night!! You know I need my SCS and favourite blogs for inspiration, right??? So this was my challenge for the day.....create with no internet!

Well, I got my little butt moving and decided that since this is a VERY beginner's class with 20 people who have never touched a stamp before, it shouldn't be too hard. And once I got going.....I realized I was right!! So I finished all my creatin' and preparin' by the time the internet was 'scheduled' to be back up.

So my honey goes and turns his computer on and lo and behold, it works!! He comes upstairs....and mine doesn't!!! GRRR!! So he got back on the phone and he and our buddy Mohammed at Bell were on the phone for TWO HOURS!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggghhhhh!!! The good news is, it's fixed. The SUPER GREAT FANTASTIC news is.....I'm gettin' a laptop!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! We've been eyeing them and pricing them and doing our research for months and there was a special promotion on through Bell, so we're going for it! That way Emileigh and I can both be on the computers at the same time........me craftin' and stampin' on my laptop and her playing her Sims2 and talkin' with her friends on the desktop one in my craft room!! We can be in the same room hangin' out, yet doing our own thing too!!!

Then the evening went down the loo!!! Not really, but ya know how you get in your comfy clothes in the evening, take off your BRA (which should be illegal by the way) and get all relaxed on the couch with your daughter, son, significant other, cat, dog...whatever!! And then the dang doorbell rings???? Well, that's what happened at the Reid house!! GGGRRRRR!! You'd think with all the fancy schmancy technology these days....LIKE A PHONE.....people would PICK ONE UP BEFORE THEY SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED!!! Am I the only one who hates when people just drop in??? Maybe I am. Sorry......that's my rant for the day........I'm done........back to our regularly scheduled stamping!!!!

Anyhoo! On to the card!! Today's card is for one of the Dirty Girl challenges on SCS. The challenge was to use only acrylic stamps on your card. Acrylic stamps are becoming more and more popular and most people have them, even if they are only the little ones from Michael's $ spot. So I inked up my Hot Stuff set from My Favorite Things for the first time and I really like how this card came out!

I used Archival Versafine Black Onyx ink on shimmery white cardstock and coloured it in with my SU markers and then punched it out using my Mega Circle Punch. I doodled around the border and matted it on a Chocolate Chip piece punched with my Giga Scalloped Circle Punch and used my white gel pen for the dots. The card base is a 5 1/2 inch square in Certainly Celery and I stamped the little stamps in CC on the right hand side. The little flower is actually from a Studio G set. The patterned paper is Three Bugs in a Rug......I've been using their paper a lot lately, I love it!! And I matted it on Chocolate Chip and added some celery grosgrain ribbon on the top and bottom.....and of course.......the main image is ......... pop dotted!!

Have a wonderful Monday and I'll let you know how the class at the library goes!!!