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 & […]

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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, […]

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DIY Tutorial: Building a Dessert Table Backdrop

Jen Carver, of Banner Events, here to share how to build a backdrop tutorial! SO Many of our dessert tables have backdrops that help create a focal point for your table. After “How do you plan a party?”, the next most frequently asked question I get is, “How did you make your party backdrop?”  Today, I’m […]

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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: 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: 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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Part 1: Jeffrey’s Modern Lego Inspired Party – The Dessert & Lego Candy Bar

This week, I am so excited to share ALL of the details from my son’s 6th birthday (Lego style)!  Jeffrey has loved legos since he was 2.  This year his request was a “Lego” themed birthday party.  He wanted to have it at the Lego Store.  Momma knew that wasn’t going to happen 😉 (I […]

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Alice in Wonderland themed party

A previous client of ours, Blaire, sent in sweet photos from her daughter’s recent Alice in Wonderland themed birthday party! Blaire did some cute cute things for the party, and we wanted to share them with you! She purchased our Customized Wonderland Party invitation and matching water bottle wraps and Lollipop Wraps. Blaire coordinated a […]

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A New Obsession…Bakerella

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My serious obsession (is still Amy Atlas, of course . . . ) is . . . Bakerella! Have you heard of her? She makes the most wonderful looking desserts. I am dying to try her cake pops. They look so cute (and yummy!) and there are so many ways to customize them to coordinate […]

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Jeffrey’s 4th Birthday – A Mommy and Me Arts and Crafts Party

This is probably going to be the longest post that anyone has ever posted because I am obsessed with parties and so there are loads of details to document here, if you want the full effect. I am behind . . . so this is from June ’09. I just have to share this party […]

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