Back up Baby!

Morning Custard Lovers!

Look at the scrumptious Sketch Lou has given us to play with over at Pollycraft Monday Challenge this week! Don't you just wanna play with it? And if you do, you could be in with a chance to win a whoppin' TEN Digi's from Pollycraft Designs. Waaaahoooooo!

I've flipped this little baby onto it's side and used Dexter the Penguin - Gifts, which, is completely Plan B! Let me tell you all about Plan A.


Plan A, involved my card for this weeks Challenge over at Cupcake, which has been chosen by our Competition Winner, Sandra and is Black and White Christmas. (We're joined by some scrummy sponsors this week; Simon Says Stamp, Polka Doodles and Scrap Affair.)

Plan A, involved an absolutely and totally illegal package. Not only did it get past Very Understanding Hubby and his Sneaky Telltale Accomplice and Side Kick, Sweet Cheeks, at Baggage Control HQ, but it also arrived in plenty of time to allow me to create a faberoony, heat embossed (actually, where is my heat gun?) Christmas Card. I snuckered happily into The Bat Cave to stroke my stash. Insert HYPERVENTILATING here, as said Christmas Stamp was not in package, due to being out of stock. OMG. I had some kind of virus for most of last week, and later that night, in a fever induced moment of Halucinative Clarity, I had the brilliant idea of making this card instead. Sorted.

Which brings me nicely onto Backing Up. Or lack thereof. I have a little pink laptop, which, I lovingly refer to as The Cupcake. It's not often that The Cupcake and I are separated, only really when I'm shopping, and that's mainly so my hands are free to grab a bargain! It's pretty fair to say that I spank the hell out of The Cupcake, and although she's only one, she acts a lot older.

Yesterday afternoon, when I was writing up the Cupcake post for Cupcake, mid post, The Cupcake died. The screen went black, there were some flashing lights and because Sweet Cheeks was out of earshot, I was able to fully express my disgust. Several moments later, after shaking The Cupcake and hitting it against the desk a few times, I defribrulated it with an Electrical Energy Source (AKA plugged it in). Whilst I waited (prayed) for the medication to kick in, I was allowed time to fully panic about what I was going to do if The Cupcake was, in fact, knackered, because I had no back up of any of the work I was in the middle of uploading. Very Understanding Hubby was typically manly in his advice. Check your AVG was his first helpful comment. Check the AVG. I know what AVG is, but where do I check it? After looking at the bar code underneath, I said something along those lines, so he came over, peered at the screen and told me AVG was fine. Good. Take The Cupcake for a service, was the next pearl of wisdom. Right. Service. Good plan. How long does that take? A couple of days. Oh, I think I feel dizzy, wait is that the floor in my face...?

So, peeps, the moral of this story is, always keep a back up. Oh, and don't ask Very Understanding Hubby about stuff...

Anyway, be sure to pop over to Cupcake and Pollycraft Monday Challenge to see the absolutely gorgeous creations from the rest of my teamies. :)

Recipe
Cardstock: Stampin Up!
Papers: Funky Hand and Pink Petticoat
Image: Dexter the Penguin - Gifts; Pollycraft Designs
Colouring: Copics