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 […]

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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 […]

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Ruff Draft: How to make Candy Centerpieces and more….

It’s Ruff Draft Time! If you liked yesterday’s post about Grayce’s 6th Candyland inspired birthday party, you will be happy to see our insider’s scoop on how we made some of the displays.   Just an FYI…. the invitation is now available, and the collection will be in the shop this week.   We’ve had lots […]

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Ruff Draft: Old Books Turned Spooky, DIY

BOO!  It’s Wednesday, weekly RUFF DRAFT time! We are sharing our Haunted Halloween collection this week (Printable graphic collection now available in the shop!) Lucky you –  the collection is on Sale!  We are offering both of our complete printable Halloween Collections for only $9 each in our shop through the end of September the 11th. We […]

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Ruff Draft: The “How To” of Printables – Featuring our Bridesmaids Collection

Over the last week, we have been featuring our latest  Bridesmaids themed Parisian “Girls Night In” photo shoot for the launch of Bridesmaids (the movie) exclusively at Target.  (9.20.11!) We get a lot of questions on how to use our printable packages.  While we do include a full set of instructions with all of our […]

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Ruff Draft: Healthy Snack Week

Get excited everyone! We bumped up our Weekly Ruff Draft to Tuesday this week due to a special announcement that will be made very soon! (Stay tuned for our most exciting news yet!!!) Sooooooo with that said…. we are still celebrating Back to School, and wanted to show you some more ways to use our SCHOOL DAY […]

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Ruff Draft: The Perfect Back to School Teacher Gift

This week, here in Fort Mill, is BACK TO SCHOOL WEEK.  We wanted to show you how to make the Perfect (Start of the Year) Teacher Gift – something everyone can do, cost efficient, and Teachers will LOVE. I  asked my mom & step dad last week (who are both Teachers) to see what would […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Polyhedrons with Fan Ruffle Embellishments

Today’s RUFF DRAFT is inspired by Maureen’s favorite Polyhedrons, seen in our “I heart Valentine’s Day” photoshoots and “Jeffrey’s Modern Lego Inspired Birthday Party” photoshoots.  We  have had several questions about these fun accent pieces, so we wanted to share with you this easy DIY project.  Maureen asked me to demonstrate the tutorial….. and I of course, wanted to give them a little […]

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Ruff Draft: Party Packaging with DIY “Ruff” Style Poms

Today starts our first ever Ruff Draft column…. Maureen and I are thrilled to be able to share some of our “behind Anders Ruff scenes” with you. Since it’s the first article,  we thought we would start off with a basic pom (so easy, so simple) – “Ruff” style. As you may already know, we just released a new product […]

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Introducing our Weekly Ruff Draft

We are super excited about our new andersruff.com website and our new weekly “column”. Introducing…… our Weekly Ruff Draft! Adria and I were discussing how to enhance the site.  We have gotten a lot of feedback from our fans and clients about what they love to see and read.  People are always asking us about […]

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DIY Tutorial & Printable: Egg-Shaped Old Fashioned Candy Buttons

  DIY Tutorial: Egg Shaped Candy Buttons Did you see our feature on our Easter Has Sprung Collection photo shoot yesterday? We had many comments asking how to make the old fashioned candy buttons. Simple! Materials: – Copy Paper (Cut into 4″x5″ rectangles or whatever size you prefer) – Printed Egg Stencil Shape (Download yours […]

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Birthday Party Hats with Poms

…so we had many comments come in about our party hats from Grayce’s party last week – and I wanted to give you a quick “How To” make them. They were sooo easy and they are such a fun element to add to your party details! Here are the basic concepts: 1. Cut out the […]

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Free Printable: DIY Bag Tag Template – Great for Back To School!

If you are like us, your kids have several backpacks and bags for school 😉 (I accessorize my BOYS, even haha!). I am always scrambling to find a tag to put on their lunch box, gym bag, backpack, etc. That was until I started making luggage tags for party favor tags! I’m always trying to […]

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Pinwheels – Perfect for 4th of July!

I LOVE pinwheels. Remember, I used them all over in Jeffrey’s Pool Party?!? Now you can make them yourself! I think these would make a dashing touch as centerpieces, table decorations or just for the kids to play with. It doesn’t have to be for 4th of July, but these sure would look stunning with […]

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