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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Ruff Draft: DIY Mustache Pillow For Your Valentine!

This week, we have been hard at work designing and styling our Mr. and Mrs. Mustache Valentine Collection.  If you didn’t have a chance to see the styled photo shoot, check it out here!  While working on this theme, I created a DIY mustache pillow to give to your favorite Valentine.  My girls have been […]

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Ruff Draft: Experimenting with Chalk Paint

I’m assuming everyone is familiar with chalk paint by now… but if you are not, I’m going to show you some different techniques I’ve tried using various chalk paints.  I wanted to test the DIY chalk paints along with Annie Sloan chalk paint. The goal of chalk paint is to spend less time creating rustic/aged […]

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Ruff Draft: FREE PRINTABLE School Bag Tags

It’s the first day of school today for our kids, here in Fort Mill!  To celebrate the first day of school, we are sharing with you FREE PRINTABLE – Bag Tags today to kick off the new school year! We had so many great comments/feedback and new requests from our last DIY set of free downloads […]

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{Peek} Glam Halloween Collection Available in the Shop!

Gorgeous photos from Becca Bond Photography are sure to please, especially when the model is her daughter, Willow! We are so excited to reveal our 2012 Halloween Printable Collection – our GLAM-O-WEEN Printable Collection.  You will be seeing more photos in The Party Dress Magazine soon, but for now, we just wanted to share a […]

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A Darling ‘A League of Her Own’ Party

Jen Carver (Banner Events), here to share an incredibly unique vintage “A League of Her Own” party with you today, choc full of winning details styled by my talented friend, Vivian Kerr and captured by Andrea Pasion Photography. You may remember the 1992 movie A League of Their Own, a comedy-drama that tells a fictionalized account […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Cork Push Pins {& Flash Sale Notice!}

Want to know how we created the fireworks on the back of our Nautical 4th of July backdrop?  Well, today we are sharing our little creation with you! We originally found cork art from a favorite designer of ours, Jen, from her blog Footprints.  We love how she painted recycled wine corks and turned them […]

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A Sweet Milk and Cookies Party

Do you ‘utter-ly’ love milk & cookies?  My 2-year old son, Max, does!  And what better way to celebrate our little cookie monster’s birthday than with a sweet milk & cookies party! Ready for the best news?  Using Anders Ruff’s darling ‘Vintage Milk & Cookies’ printable set, the party prep was simple & inexpensive,  & the […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Yarn Pom Flowers

A few weeks ago, I showed you how to make yarn poms…  Well, today we are going to show you another trick using yarn poms.  We just loved incorporating them into our recent Monogram Baby Shower Collection and thought you would like to see how easy it is to take a yarn pom and turn […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Yarn Poms

Are you crazy about yarn poms???  Want to know how to make them??? Today, we are going to show you how to make yarn poms – in various sizes! We found a great DIY tutorial from Prudent Baby, and knew we had to make some for our latest Monogram Baby Shower Collection! We used yarn […]

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A Precious Arts & Crafts Party

Even Picasso couldn’t have painted a more picture-perfect party for one art-loving little girl.  My daughter, Kaylee, has been begging for an arts & crafts birthday celebration for an entire year!  Some children are born with silver spoons in their mouths.  Kaylee was born with a paintbrush and crayons in her hands! I turned to my […]

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Ruff Draft: HOP DIY Gumball Machines

HOP DVD is ALMOST HERE with our EXCLUSIVE EASTER PRINTABLES!!! March 23rd, if you haven’t heard – pick up your copy at TARGET!!!  Today, we wanted to show you how we made the over sized Gumball Machines you see on our dessert table, styled for Universal’s HOP DVD. We found this easy tutorial from Kara’s […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Lollipop Trees, HOP style!!!

Lollipop, Lollipop… Oh Lolli, Lolli, Lolli…. If you haven’t heard yet, Universal Studios hired us to design and style/produce a “HOP” themed Easter party for the release of the movie at Target!  All of the DVD and Blu-Ray discs at Target will have an insert inside with instructions on how you can download your FREE […]

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A {LOVE} Day Celebration

A SWEET Valentine’s Day printable package + SWEET treats + the SWEETEST kids around (well, most of the time) = one pretty SWEET {LOVE} Day celebration. I’m not gonna lie.   Some parties are for the kids.  And some parties are for me.  I pretended this party was for the kids, and spent a few hours trying to convince myself it was for the […]

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Ruff Draft: DIY Wooden Cake Stands

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 […]

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