Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!

New Year - New You!

If your New Year's resolution is to set goals for 2010 , then the Project Girl has a downloadable goal chart that is perfect for you.

Just follow this link, download, and start setting your 2010 goals today!

Basic Grey Giveaway

Bree at GETSKETCHY has posted a wonderful opportunity for one person to receive the entire collection of Basic Grey "Origins". What a wonderful way to ring in the New Year!

Here is all you have to do to get entered into the giveaway:

• Become a follower = you are entered 1 x (if you are already a follower, don't worry you're already entered)
• Post the FREE BASIC GREY Blinkie with the link back here = 1x
  (post a comment here with the link to your blog)
• Dedicate a blog post to this contest = 1x
  (post a comment here with the link to your blog)
• Tell your friend about us = 1x
  (they will have to leave a comment here saying who sent them)
• Twitter about this contest = 1x
  (send us a tweet about it to GETSKETCHY or leave a comment here telling me you did)
• Participate in the TRASH TO TREASURE challenge = 5x

Good luck!

Project 12

Have you heard about Project 12? Project 12 started out as a compromise to the yearly challenge of taking 365 photos. The Project 12 challenge is simple. The idea is to create a layout on a monthly basis which recaps what you’ve been doing. Whether you took 31 photos, no photos, or 100 photos, simply choose your favorites that best described what you were doing that month, and create a layout.

Scrapbook & Cards Today, in partnership with designer Davinie Fiero and sketch artist Becky Fleck, are pleased to offer its readers Project 12 on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog!

Here is how it works:
Becky will post on the blog a beautiful double page sketch on the last Saturday of each month for use the following month. Davinie will post a page example to get your creative juices started!

When the new sketch is revealed, everyone who has sent us (Scrapbook and Cards Today) an image or a gallery link of their completed page for the previous month, will be entered into a drawing to win a fabulous prize from one of our advertising partners!

In order to be entered into a challenge simply create a layout and link it to the monthly challenge thread by the 20th of the month or send it to Scrapbook and Cards at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com with “Project 12” in the subject line. That means January’s sketch will be due on February 20th and so on. For a second chance to win, link your layout to Davine's blog at http://davinie.blogspot.com/ and the corresponding challenge thread.

The first sketch and official launch of Project 12 was on December 26th! Without further ado, below is the January sketch for the Project 12 challenge, 2010:



Here is the timeline of new sketch releases and reveal dates for the year!
January sketch and official launch: December 26th
February sketch: January 30th
March sketch and January reveal: February 27th
April sketch and February reveal: March 27th
May sketch and March reveal: April 24th
June sketch and April reveal: May 29th
July sketch and May reveal: June 26th
August sketch and June reveal: July 24th
September sketch and July reveal: August 28th
October sketch and August reveal: September 25th
November sketch and September reveal: October 30th
December sketch and October reveal: November 30th
Final album reveal and prizes: January 15th, 2011

Holiday Greetings

Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday. Wishing you and those you love all the good fortunes of life, health, happiness and peace throughout the New Year.

Merry Christmas and may God bless you all!

Cheesy Spinach Artichoke Dip

I promise after the holidays I will start back on papercrafting and start posting projects instead of just recipes.

The following recipe is an adaptation from Betty Crocker that will wow your taste buds.

Cheesy Spinach Artichoke Dip

1/2 cup mayonnaise or Greek yogurt
1/2 cup ranch salad dressing (I use Hidden Valley Light)
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan, Ramono, or Asiago cheese (I use a Ramono/Asiago combo)
1 can (14 oz) or 1 jar (12 oz) artichoke hearts, drained and coarsely chopped
1 box (9-10 oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeeze to drain
1/3 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese (I use a combo of Colby & Monterey) for topping

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix mayo, dressing, and Parmesan cheese in a bowl.
• Stir in artichokes and spinach.
• Spoon into a 1-quart casserole.
• Sprinkle with Monterey cheese.
• Cover and bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted.

Serve warm with baguette slices, crackers, or veggies. Refrigerate unused portions. This can easily be reheated in the microwave for 1-2 minutes.

New Company - My Time Made Easy

Opening very soon is a new company/store called My Time Made Easy. Some of you may already be using Lauren Meader's templates to create fabulous paper craft projects that she created for Papertrey Inc. Now Lauren has created a new company with online store that will be selling her own stamp, template and digi paper.

Here are a few of her creations: