We're nuts about you, Dad!

Last post: Mother's Day.
Today's post: Father's Day!


You'll be glad to know that my time in between posts will be a little less than from holiday to holiday from now on. The Deeply Rooted household has finally set down their roots again! We're out of our temporary housing and into our newly gutted, re-everything-ed and renovated home. It feels wonderful to be getting back into a routine and re-familiarizing ourselves to our 'stuff' (it's like Christmas with each opening of a box!).

For Father's Day gifts we often have to delve into the mind of our husbands, and if you husband's anything like mine, that can be a scary trip! I wanted a project that the kids could help me with, but something beyond a scribbled picture or a bad combination of Elmer's and popsicle sticks. I came up with the modern-day Father's Day picture frame:

 I started out with a clear CD case (remember those things? CD's?) and took the front off to use. I awkwardly asked my father-in-law if I could have a few of his nuts (his face was priceless), and folded down some Craft Glue Dots® to adhere them randomly around the case:

 Make this unique to the dad in your life! Find what he likes and make your own Father's Day frame!



        ...unless he likes pizza. Then you might just make him a pizza.

I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® Design Team

Mother's Day Made Easy!

Hi there! I’m finally back to help this poor blog feel a little less neglected (it has been) and a little more loved (because it is!) For those of you curious about the Deeply Rooted house, remodeling is almost done, and we’ll be moving in next week! Anything not finished by D-Day will surely get put on “The List”, and I’m sure we’ll get around to doing it sometime in the next few years.


While I’ve been busy working away, either at the new job or at the house, I’ve spared some time for my little lovelies…Glue Dots! Let me just tell you, I love this company!! The folks at Glue Dots recently put together little care packages for each design team member, and each and every goodie was so appreciated!


Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and my friends at Glue Dots wanted to see how we could use their wonderful adhesives to make quick and easy presents to celebrate Mom. My first project is for all of you ‘greenies’ (aka up-cyclers, re-users or salvage Sallys!). Gift cards are a quick and easy way to give someone a gift you know they’ll love, but they can oftentimes feel impersonal. Show Mom you care by taking a few minutes to make a simple, thoughtful gift card holder out of (none other than) a toilet paper roll!

Prep Time Needed: A Few Days (or as long as it takes your family to use up a roll of toilet paper!)
Project Time Needed: less than 5 minutes


Trim the paper to fit your cardboard roll. I used a paper with a nice pattern on it so I wouldn’t have to worry about much extra time and material for decoration. Using your Continuous Glue Line®, apply glue to all four edges of your cut-to-fit paper. Line your paper up with the roll and adhere all the way around the cardboard tube. Fold each edge of the tube in on itself, making a pillow shape. Cut and attach ribbon (or any other decorations you’d prefer) using Craft Glue Dots®. 

Materials Used:
Toilet Paper Tube
My Mind's Eye Lost and Found - Market Street 6x6 Paper Pad
Stampin' Up! Fairy Tale Ribbon
Making Memories Sentiments Embossed Charms
Glue Dots Continuous Lines®
Craft Glue Dots®


For my second project, I solved a beautiful dilemma. I knew I wanted to get my mother a fun new baking pan, but, really…how ‘fun’ does a baking pan ever look?? Boring, grey, blah, right? I looked at the pan, looked at my stash of crafting fun, and (somewhat brilliantly, I might add) came up with the idea of using the pan just like the ever-so-popular crafting trays! You’ve seen them, right? They’re printing press-esque trays that you add paper, trinkets, and pictures to, but who said they had to be done in a tray?!?

I cut out some My Mind's Eye papers to fit the bottoms of the pan and used a packet of die cuts from Heidi Grace as my little embellies. I even found these cute little laser cut wooden kitchen utensils from Kaiser Crafts to add on! Most importantly, everything is adhered using Removable Glue Dots®, so there’ll be no stickiness left in the pan when Mom's ready to use it (for its intended purpose, that is), and EVEN MORE importantly, My Mom the Crafter can reuse all of the papers and pretties on the tray in her own crafting magical creations!
 

Materials Used:

Removable Glue Dots®
Pampered Chef Brownie Pan
My Mind's Eye Lost and Found - Market Street 6x6 Paper Pad
Heidi Grace Daydream Die Cut Accents
Making Memories Sentiments Embossed Charms
My Mind's Eye Stella Rose Trim
Stampin' Up! Fairy Tale Ribbon
Kaiser Crafts Wooden Flourish - Kitchen Utensils

{my momma!}

So, as this project is for my actual mother for Mother's Day (and she's seeing this before I've actually had a chance to give it to her), HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOM!!

Well, there you go, fellow crafters. Two quick and easy ideas to make your mother feel special, loved, and like she should bake something good for you to eat!!

$100 prize? Yes, please!

Hey guys!
I thought I'd leave a quick note while I try to stay awake watching OSU win this basketball game against Kansas ;)
I came across this awesome blog, and she's giving away a $100 gift card to Scrapbook.com! I'm entering myself for this sweet giveaway, and you can, too! Visit her blog at  http://kristinwilsonhandmade.blogspot.com/ for all of the rules.
Who knows, maybe I'll even share some goodies with you all if I win!! ;)

Night guys!

Easy Spring Crafts with Glue Dots®!

Once upon a time, I heard that it takes repeating an action for two to three months for it to become a habit. Well, we've been set up in our temporary Deeply Rooted establishment (aka my awesome in-law's house) for almost two months, and things are starting to become routine. My new job is going well, and the remodeling of our perminant house is almost complete.
I'm still without a craft room for now, so here are a couple of quick, easy, already-have-materials-around-the-house projects to celebrate Spring!

These cute little carrot eggs are super, super easy and a fun twist on the traditional plastic egg.

I pulled some of the green strips out of a bag of crinkled basket grass, gathered them all up by their ends, and stuck them down on a perminent Glue Dot®. Use the Dot 'n Go® as a little base to sculpt and trim your carrot stems. Once you're happy with how it looks, peel the Dot off of the roll and slap it on the largest end of an orange plastic egg. Use a perminant marker to add some 'carrot lines', and you're done!


For project number two, I solved a little problem of mine. I love the look of having paper grass in Easter baskets, but I'm not a fan of it's mess! It's like tinsel at Christmas time.
Pretty, but UGH!
I used an adorable plastic egg-printed take out container (with the flaps to close it trimmed off) for my basket. My continuous Glue Lines® were perfect to line the inside edge of the basket.

Once the edge was lined with the Glue Lines®, I took the basket grass randomly smashed the grass onto the glue around all four sides.

You get the classic look of the basket grass without the mess!

Another craft solution from Glue Dots®! :)

I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® Design Team

this is how we ROLL!

Things are finally coming together at the new Deeply Rooted house! Painting is almost done, almost all of the lights are hung, and flooring is being installed next week. My goal is to be moved in by April 1st (so I'm probably just 'fooling' myself!).

Until I'm settled, I'll keep sharing pages done at Mimi's!

This paper makes me smile, because it's one of the very first pieces of scrapbooking paper I had ever purchased back in 2008. I've held onto it for all of these years because I love the patterns and colors of it, but I never had a picture to match.

I added the bubble caption and words using the Custom Path feature at Shutterfly (*love!!*). I added the image and text, then printed it out as a page in a soft cover photobook (instant photo enlargement, too!). I added a few ribbons and journaling to finish off the page.

I'll leave you with a sneak peek of the new Deeply Rooted view!!

front of the house

view from front porch

St. Patty's Day with Friendship's Garden

The challenge for Friendship's Garden this week is a St. Patrick's Day theme (obviously has to have green on it!). I'm a huge fan of everything Irish, so this card was pretty easy for me!!

While I'm not skilled enough with knot tying to whip up a Celtic knot, I did manage this little ditty:

As much as I love this holiday, I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Link your projects back to Friendship's Garden.

Supplies:
Little Yellow Bicycle - Lucky Me - transparency
Pink Paislee - Old School - patterned paper
Ribbon - Stampin' Up!
Twine
Glue Dots

Cowboy

I've always heard that weather this time of year can be crazy, but Friday was taking that to the extreme!! You've probably seen on the news where the storm that passed through Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio last Friday was a whopper, and that's an understatement!
Businesses closed early on Friday afternoon (mine included!), people hurried home to hunker down and brace for whatever was to come. Our family was truly blessed, and even the rain that we experienced was nothing more than a passing storm. Just 4 or 5 miles away, people experienced golf ball to grapefuit sized hail and significant damage, and several tornadoes caused entire cities to be leveled throughout our state.
We are definetely counting ourselves as blessed, and are praying for the families who have been forever changed by this storm.

Cowboy

This is another page from my trip to Mimi's Getaway. I love scrapping with a group, because there's always a toy there that I don't have, and it's a great way to use new products! One of the ladies was nice enough to let me borrow the Paper Doily Sizzlits Die from Stampin' Up!, and they turned out beautifully! I paired the doily die with a masculine print from the Old School line from Pink Paislee. Even with adding a rhinestone brad from Stampin' Up! to the doilies, the page still has a great, masculine look.

Supplies Used:

• Basic Grey Curio Upholstery
• Pink Paislee Old School
• Sizzlits Die Paper Doily
• Stampin' Up! Rhinestone Brads
• Stampin' Write Chocolate Chip
• Making Memories Canvas Letters
• Twine
• Assorted Glue Dots