Today we want to share with you an easy tutorial on how to make wooden cake stands. If you recall, we had a fabulous giveaway a few weeks ago from A Fabulous Fete showing off her beautiful wooden cake stands. Lauren, the owner sent us several to use for our Christmas photoshoot, North Pole Christmas Holiday […]
Ruff Draft: Free Printable for Reindeer Food
It’s almost time for Santa to arrive, so we wanted to share with you a FREE PRINTABLE label design for Reindeer Food. My daughter Brynne, wanted to me to show her how to make Reindeer food this week, so of course, I wanted to share it with you. I designed the label to go along with […]
Ruff Draft – Grandparent Christmas Gift and Matching Ornaments
I can’t believe that Christmas is in 11 days….. if any of you are last minute gift givers, I have a Christmas craft that is perfect for grandparents. My girls love to create artwork for their grandparents… and the grandparents love to receive it (so they say – along with the ooohhh and ahhhs). The girls & […]
Ruff Draft: Candy Cane Lollipop Ornaments
Each year, during the Christmas season, my girls want to do holiday crafts with me. I love spending time doing something that will give a fresh take to our Christmas decor, and we have the perfect project that your kids can make too! We created these hand-made, kid friendly, candy cane lollipops for our newest Christmas collection, […]
Ruff Draft: Coffee Filter Snowflake Banner
I am back from my week-long trip to Ohio! Thanksgiving was wildly fun and full of laughs with our family & friends back up north! Now that I have gained 10 pounds from the fabulous home-cooked meals, it’s time to get ready for Christmas. (I’m only eating salads this week) ha! We wanted to share with you […]
Ruff Draft: How to make Pumpkin Pie Favor Box
So… Hostess with the Mostess just featured our Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving Printable Collection yesterday, and we wanted to show you how to make the pumpkin pie favor boxes. We think they are just too sweet, and wanted to make certain you know how to make these little pumpkin pie favor boxes from scratch. 🙂 Supplies needed: 1. Gobble Gobble […]
Ruff Draft: Wine and Cupcake Tasting Party Plus Easy Desserts
This past weekend was my girlfriend, Nicole’s, 40th Birthday. Her family asked me to help plan/design a wine & cupcake tasting party for her. I wanted to show you a few simple tricks I did in order to make a great party without all the trouble! You can find the Wine Tasting Printable Collection in […]
Ruff Draft: Gobble Gobble Banner
So… I can’t believe it’s November already! Time to start thinking/planning for Thanksgiving. My mom is already frantically calling me to help her plan her Thanksgiving dinner menu…. (as if she is going to buy groceries now – ha!) From this year’s Thanksgiving Gobble Gobble Printable Collection, we designed a very simple banner, and I wanted […]
Ruff Draft: Free Halloween Iron-On for Trick or Treat Bags
It’s almost time for Trick or Treat night… and if any of you are like me, you are finalizing last minute costume details and Trick or Treat bags! Today for the weekly Ruff Draft, we thought you would enjoy a free Iron-on printable to use for canvas Trick or Treat bags. We designed the Iron-ons from our […]
24 Hour Birthday Sale!!! {Happy Birthday to Maureen}
Happy Birthday to Maureen! The big 3-1 today. Maureen’s mom pulled out an old photo of Maureen from 1981 at her 1st birthday (looks a LOT like her son, Pierson!) and photo from last year’s (30th) birthday celebration at Nikko’s sushi bar in Charlotte (“Sushi Love” with the owner). To celebrate Maureen’s 31st birthday, we […]
Ruff Draft: Haunted Halloween FREE BOO Sign
It’s time to start “Boo-ing” your neighbors and friends! We came up with another fun FREE BOO sign this year for you to print and pass around for some Halloween Fun! We decided to design a BOO-tag this year to go along with our Haunted Halloween Printable Collection (still on sale!!!). It’s a clever and cute way […]
Ruff Draft: Adria’s Smokin’ Chili and FREE FOOTBALL Printables {Limited Time!}
It’s October and the fall weather is finally starting to change, down here in the south. What does that mean??? IT’S CHILI TIME! I thought, why not create a football printable to go along with my famous home-style chili… and what goes best with chili??? FOOTBALL!!! In my house, we are Ohio State Buckeyes fans, and Auburn […]
Ruff Draft: BOO-Meringues from Haunted Halloween
Today for the weekly Ruff Draft, we are sharing with you how we made our little BOO-Meringues from our Haunted Halloween Printable Collection. We had many requests/comments about these little guys, and thought why not show you the behind the scenes making of our scary friends. Ingredients needed: (we like this recipe, but […]
Ruff Draft: Gift Packaging Centerpieces – The Operation Shower Way
Today’s Ruff Draft is a behind the scenes of the 2011 TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP OPERATION SHOWER that we helped with last week in Atlanta. We designed the invitation and party decor, (which was inspired from this year’s 4th of July Pinwheel Collection) and went down to help style the event with the lovely LeAnn Morrissey, and Amy Belle […]
Haunted Halloween: DIY Chocolate Keys
Today we are sharing with you how to make chocolate skeleton keys for Halloween. We have had several questions about this, and since we provided a key template in the Haunted Halloween collection, we thought this would be a great tutorial. Supplies needed: 1. melting chocolates 2. wax/parchment paper 3. piping containers (we love these […]