Ruff Draft: Chocolate Dipped Apples as seen on Better Homes and Gardens

Have you had a chance to see the 2012 Halloween Better Homes & Gardens issue yet? If you haven’t heard, we were hired to Design and Produce a Halloween Story for Better Homes & Gardens for their Halloween Tricks and Treats Magazine (with free printables!).  You can read the full article online.  We designed a […]

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Anders Ruff Partners with Better Homes & Gardens!

  We are SO thrilled that the time has FINALLY come to reveal one of our most exciting projects.  Last December, Adria and I were contacted to Design and Produce a Halloween Story for Better Homes & Gardens for their Halloween Tricks and Treats Magazine (with free printables!).  We were BEYOND thrilled.  9 months later […]

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Giveaway: Costume and Personalized Trick or Treat Bag from Sweet Things Kids

Sweet Things Kids did a fabulous photo shoot to kick off the most Spooktacular of all the holidays, Halloween, and to showcase their new costumes for this year.  The photography was by the very artistic Life.Love.Photography (check out some of their amazing photos on facebook) and the party printables by no other than Anders Ruff […]

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Project Buzz – Anders Ruff + Better Homes and Gardens!

Did the colors throw you off? Exciting news! Adria and I are going to be a little quiet this week because we are out of town producing a Halloween story with Better Homes and Gardens. The editor of the Better Homes & Gardens Tricks and Treats Magazine contacted us and asked us to produce a […]

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Happy Halloween 2011!

Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Halloween weekend filled with tricks and treats. If you are like us, we go trick or treating tonight in our neighborhood. I am still in the process of finishing my family’s costumes…. Can’t wait to show you!   This weekend we saw a few fun photos […]

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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 […]

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P…is for Pinterest and Loads of Party Inspiration

Remember these?    { image source} Back when I was a teenager (yes, I know this dates me), every teen girl across America had one of these cork boards hanging in her room cluttered with pictures from topics ranging from fashion, to music, to teenage heart throbs to bedroom makeover ideas.  Concert & movie tickets, notes […]

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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 […]

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Giveaway Winners: A pair of Monkey Toes Shoes

Congratulations to #11 Jennifer and #114 Becky, who will each be receiving a pair of Monkey Toes Shoes. Please contact heidi@andersruff.com to claim your prize!  Thank you to Jenny of Monkey Toes Shoes for sponsoring this weeks giveaway. If you weren’t a lucky winner for a free pair, remember Jenny has offered all of our […]

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Giveaway: A Pair of Monkey Toes Shoes (Two Winners)

This weeks giveaway combines two of my favorite things-cute little feet and adorable shoes! Jenny Ford, the 0wner of Monkey-Toes,  is offering TWO of our lucky followers a pair of Monkey-Toe shoes. In addition to that all our followers will receive a 25% discount through November 15 (see below). Remember Grayce’s shoes from our Vintage […]

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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 […]

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Happy Halloween Collection & Free Printable!

Remember our Happy Halloween collection from last year?  Well, it is for sale in the shop for only $12 right now!  Even more good news… Nicole, the owner of The Twinery, asked us to design a free printable for her fans.  We were happy to do that for her since we are obsessed with her […]

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2011 Pinkoween Collection – Contributing to Susan G. Komen

Last year we collaborated with Courtney Dial of Pizzazzerie on a special Halloween project. We created printables for a Pink Halloween Collection.  Courtney styled her own dessert table using our printables.  Remember?  Pink + Halloween = Pinkoween Collection There are so many opportunities to celebrate using our Pink Halloween/Pinkoween Collection.  Many of our clients used […]

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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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25+ SPOOKtacular DIY Halloween Ideas

Hello AR Fans!  I’m really not tricking  when I say that it’s a treat to be guest blogging today on one of my all-time favorite party sites.  Aren’t you constantly inspired by all that Maureen, Adria & the Anders Ruff team contribute?  I know I am! Halloween will be here before you can say, ‘BOO!’  With Halloween merchandise […]

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