{Press on Anders Ruff} & {Giveaway} "A Few of My Favorite Things"!

We are so excited about the new post about our shop, Anders Ruff Custom Designs, on "A Few of My Favorite Things" blog! I love following Danielle's blog and you should, too!

The excitement is 2-fold.

1st - She posted about Luau parties, and featured one of our new luau invitations that we designed.

2nd, she is hosting a giveaway from our shop! She posted such a nice feature on some of our work, we really appreciate it! Visit her blog, read the post and enter for the giveaway!

I hope one of our readers wins the giveaway! (Free personalized invitation or announcement design! from our shop)

Thanks, Danielle and AFOMFT!

{Press on Anders Ruff} & {Giveaway} "A Few of My Favorite Things"!

{Coming Soon} Printable 4th of July Party Package!

Stay tuned... we are going to be adding a printable 4th of July Party Package to our shop!

Lots of items to help make your 4th of July celebration more festive!

We'll keep you posted. It should be listed by tomorrow afternoon (June 23rd)

{Coming Soon} Printable 4th of July Party Package!

{Featured Clients} Summer Wedding Reception - Lemons and Limes

Jen, a wonderful (and very frequent!) client of ours, asked us to help tie in lemons and limes for her wedding reception. We excitingly accepted. Jen has such an eye for detail and LOVES paper as much as we do! I am so excited to unfold her event.

We were so inspired and in love with the lemons and limes theme, that we created an invitation in our shop to fit:

Now.... to unfold her special event! All of her fabulous photography was done by Shannon Wilfong.

It starts with the entrance - what a creative way to greet their guests...

A fabric covered custom sign (in appropriate colors!)

Jen really tied in yellows and lime colors.... everywhere! She held her event in the backyard of our sweet and dear friend, Amy. Their backyard was the perfect venue for a summer celebration.

Adorable yellow paper lantern lights were strung on the double porch overlooking the table setup.

I was so excited that Jen and Liz decided to create yellow and green poms for the event. (I love making them after Jeffrey's 5th party!)

Beautiful tables filled the backyard.

Her tables were adorned with beautiful vases of lemons and limes. Perfectly fitting for a summer event.

The chairs had the gift bags for each guest, as well as an (oh so creative) green textured cardstock cone of popcorn hung by yellow ribbon.

Framed quotes were placed on each of the tables. We designed the quote cards with scattered lemons and limes that looked like an engraved/letterpress design.

Here a sample of one of the 8 quotes cards that we designed for the tables.

I love how she wrapped her forks/knives for the outdoor celebration. She layered a clear plate with a green plate and then wrapped the fork/knife in the adorable layered napkins and tied with natural raffia (that ties in so well w/ the natural chairs!)

The gift bags were stuffed with personalized gifts. A custom gift tag that we designed hung from the outside:

Inside the gift bags were cookies (for a late night snack after the big day!), a water bottle (with a custom wrap we designed), and a CD of handpicked songs that was wrapped in a petal envelope with a logo we designed to coordinate.

This is the fun water bottle wrap and logo for the CD that we designed....

Now do you see what I mean about Jen paying attention to details? Well, if not, the following will prove it! She had it all covered!

Food! They had tables full of delicious dishes from Ranuccis Big Butt BBQ. We created food tents to label the various items. It is making me hungry just thinking of their wonderful food!

I love these lollis! Jen stuck them into a wrapping paper wrapped box - so beautiful!

And look at the yummy cupcakes from SAS (gorgeous- can you see the sanding sugar that they sprinkled on the tops!?)

Thirsty?

Beautiful job, Jen and Liz! Congrats!

Thanks for sharing, Jen!

Credits:

Photography - Shannon Wilfong

Graphic Designs - Anders Ruff (us!)

Welcome Sign - Megan Cavanaugh Designs

Cupcakes - SAS

{Featured Clients} Summer Wedding Reception - Lemons and Limes

{Featured Clients} All Aboard the Choo Choo Train!

One of our fabulous customers, Amy, graciously shared photos from her son's 3rd birthday party. She used our train birthday party package along with some extra graphic designs that we custom designed for her.

Here is the invitation style that she used. She had asked us to change colors from our sample we have in our shop. We swatch matched the colors from her party ware that she had already purchased.

Her son is adorable- like a little model!

She actually hired a party train to come take the kids around! How fun that must have been.

We designed a custom birthday banner, which she hung over the windows in the party room.

She had us design lots of logos with her son's photos, and you will see those throughout the party. I like her little banner she hung over the fireplace....

Here is a shot of her cakes. She told me the story about her cake fiasco and it sounds quite stressful! I think the cakes turned out adorable! The colors match her party scheme perfectly.

She stuck the cupcake toppers in the little trains and on the cake itself. She used some with photographs of her son, and some with the train logo we designed.

Here is a shot of her favor bags - we designed little favor tags to be used and she creatively made them 2 sided with a photo of her son on the other side.

Here is a closeup of what her favor tag looked like:

Her table looked so coordinated and I love how she hung the photo logos of her son over top from the lighting fixture!

We also designed some water bottle wraps to go with her scheme (not shown in the photos)

For Amy's party, the train birthday party package had everything she needed to style a perfect train party - it seems like it was a perfect fit!

Great job on the party, Amy!

{Featured Clients} All Aboard the Choo Choo Train!

{Fabulous Finds} A New Obsession...

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 with your party theme.

Here are some of my favorites from her site... How perfect would the bees have been for Pierson's 1st Bee Day.

I am totally going to make these for Halloween....
Or what about a doggie party!?

If I had a baby girl, Hello Kitty would for sure be one of her party themes... and so these would be PERFECT!

and next order of business to tackle.. macaron pops!!! So many lovely ideas. Thanks, Bakerellafor the wonderful inspirations! These blue macaron pops would have been great for Jeffrey's Pool Party!

{Fabulous Finds} A New Obsession...

{Press on Anders Ruff} Featured on Swank Sweets!

I was so excited to see these photos from an event planned by a client of ours.

Swank Sweets, an awesome dessert table planner, purchased a whole set of Circus "Under the Big Top" items from our shop.

She did a really cool layout using the items, and I wanted to share a few of the photos.

Look how cute her table looks! She utilized the circus banner, labels, logos, tags and other items to create a really amazing and impressive looking table!

I like how she used the ticket reels to hold the cake!

A little view at the popcorn boxes with our circus/carnival logo on them.
And the "under the big top" party logo adorns adorable aqua gift bags...
Yummy candies in fun glass jars are labeled with the custom label design we created.

Check out our shop for the circus items! Such a great theme for boys or girls at any age!

{Press on Anders Ruff} Featured on Swank Sweets!

Shop Temporarily Closed

Due to a death in Adria's family, our etsy shop is temporarily closed. We will open as soon as we can.

Samples of our work can be found in our sold items section of our shop.

Thank you for understanding!

Maureen and Adria

Shop Temporarily Closed