Ruff Draft: DIY Button Necklaces and Headbands for Doll Parties

Today we are crafting button necklaces and headbands for birthday girls and their dolls!  We created a Birthday Girl Doll Party, for our favorite Australian client, Yolanda Cerra (aka. Kiss Me Kate) a few months ago and wanted to show you the perfect craft for this particular theme.  We used shades of pinks and reds […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Teacher Survival Kit

We have been gearing up for the Back to School Season over here in the Ruff household… printing supplies lists, shopping school specials and figuring out what to do for our new school year teachers!  We asked some teacher friends what they like getting as classroom gifts and their response was:  practical goodies!  So we […]

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Ruff Draft: How to Make Tissue Paper Fringe Tassles

I recently made fringe tassle garland for Brynne’s Insta-Party Birthday – it was so easy, inexpensive and actually quicker than I thought it would be.  My daughter and her friends loved it, and Brynne even helped me make the tassles!  I thought it would be fun to show you how to make these fringe tassles out […]

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Party Favors made with Silhouette Studio Software

About once a month Silhouette runs some really great promotions making it the opportune time to cash in your chips and buy one of these sweet little “miracle” machines.  As luck would have it, a promotion is happening right now, but ending Wednesday, July 10th, so you have to hurry if you want to catch […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Tissue Paper Flower from our Birthday Girl Doll Party

Is everyone ready for the 4th of July?  We celebrated America just last week, in a non-traditional way with a very important Australian family. We threw the sweetest American Girl Doll inspired birthday party for one of our best Australian clients, Yolanda Cerra (a.k.a Kiss Me Kate) and her 5 year old daughter, Neveah!  We […]

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Ruff Draft: Celebrating Teachers – DIY Snack Bag

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week – Let’s celebrate them with a cute gift idea! I am loving these cotton bags found at Nashville Wraps!  Maureen and I were trying to think of something to give to teachers and we came up with a DIY snack bag!  All teachers love to have a snack at […]

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Ruff Draft: Mother’s Day Flower Tote Craft

Who loves flowers???  ALL MOMS!!!  I’ve been trying to figure out what to do for my mom this year, and knew it had to be either gardening or flower related, because my mom has the “Greenest Thumb Of ALL”!  In fact, we joke in our family that her plants are her “pets”.  I wanted to […]

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Ruff Draft: Easter Paintings with Free Easter Silhouette Templates {& Sale!}

My daughter Grayce has been begging me to paint with her over the last couple of weeks… so I decided to create some FREE EASTER TEMPLATES that I could share with you, and also use for the Easter Painting project I did with my girls this past weekend. SALE NOTICE: We are also promoting our […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Easter Vases Wrapped in Yarn

Who is ready for spring?  I am I am!!!!  With spring, comes spring-cleaning… it is time to sort out your old glassware for this next DIY Easter project.  We love refurbishing items into something fresh and new… do you have an old jar, beverage glass or even glass candle holder laying around?  These three miscellaneous […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Felt Pizza Craft Pattern and Instructions!

We are getting ready to reveal Pierson’s Pizzaria Party very soon – we are so excited to share so many great details with you!  The Pizzaria printables are available in the shop now!  Today we wanted to show you a DIY Felt Pizza tutorial, which includes a Free Printable Pattern! SUPPLIES NEEDED: Free Printable Pizza […]

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Friday’s Favorite Thing – The Twinery

We love The Twinery and I’m so excited that they are Friday’s Favorite Thing this week!  Why all the love you might ask?  Well, they sell twine – lots of fabulous, colorful, chic twine.   Twine might be the next best thing to chevron stripes and if you haven’t had much exposure to it I’m […]

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Ruff Draft: St. Patrick’s Day Gold Pot with “Clover”

Are you looking for St. Patrick’s Day ideas??  Today, I have an inexpensive gift idea or party favor to show you, that I think you will find easy to do!  In case you haven’t seen the newest St. Patrick’s Day Printable collections, click here.  We are loving adding pink to the classic greens & golds […]

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Ruff Draft: St. Patrick’s Day Good Luck Charms

We just released our new St. Patrick’s Day printables in the shop… did you happen to see the bold pink, green & gold colorway – a fresh take on St. Patty’s Day!  We just love it and it is an INSTANT DOWNLOAD….. so you can get them immediately after purchasing!  Since we have been getting […]

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Ruff Draft: How to make a Tissue Paper Chef Hat

If you haven’t heard, our little Super P (Pierson, Maureen’s youngest) celebrated his 5th birthday last weekend!  Maureen threw the most AMAZING Pizzeria Birthday Party for Pierson and all of his little buddies! (You can see the invite and the printable collection here.  She will be adding more coordinating printables in the coming week.  So […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Decoder and New Secret Message Valentine

We have been having so much fun coming up with new ideas for this year’s Mustache Valentine Collection!  Today, we wanted to show off the newest Valentine Card- A secret message valentine with DIY decoder template!  The package includes a blue and pink Valentine Card that says, “I spy a secret message” (with a CUSTOMIZED […]

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