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Friday, May 6, 2011

{Giveaway} A $50 Gift Certificate to Piccadilly Circus Designs!

This week's giveaway, a $50 gift certificate to Piccadilly Circus Designs, puts the "C" in cute. Suzanne Tynan, owner of this hip Etsy children's clothing boutique, does amazing things with embroidery and specializes in "whimsical appliqued shirts for babies, toddlers and kids!"

We've seen Piccadilly Circus Designs' adorable clothing on several sites and are thrilled that Suzanne has offered to participate in this week's giveaway! Here are just a few of her fun and clever designs:

Giveaway Description: One $50 gift certificate to Piccadilly Circus Designs

**SPECIAL ** Suzanne is offering 20% off any item in her store if you make a purchase during this giveaway. Enter "andersruff" in the comments section of your order. This amazing offer ends on Friday, May 13, at 1:00PM ET.

Multiple Opportunities to Enter = Multiple Chances to Win!

• First way to enter: "Like" Piccadilly Circus Designs on Facebook and let us know by leaving a comment on our blog.

*Additional ways to enter (not required, but may increase your chances of winning)

• Subscribe to Piccadilly Circus' mailing list here

• “Like” Anders Ruff on Facebook

• Follow PiccadillyKids on Twitter

{*For each entry, please leave a comment below indicating which step(s) you completed. We will check if you win!}

Winner will be chosen via random.org, on Friday, May 13th, at 1:00 PM ET

Please note: International shipping charges are the responsibility of the winner if winner resides outside of the continental US.

{Giveaway Winner} $100 Gift Certificate to Daily Grommet

The winner of the {Giveaway} $100 Gift Certificate to Daily Grommet (drawn via Random.org) is lucky #73, Jen!

Jen said...
I would purchase the baby cakes mini treat makers! How fun!

Jen, please email us to claim your gift certificate at carrie@andersruff.com

Thank you everyone for all of your support; and a special thanks to Daily Grommet for sponsoring this week's giveaway.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

{Featured Clients} Rubber Duckie, You're Number One! Andy's 1st Birthday

Our client, Lorena, asked us to customize our Rubber Duckie Birthday Party Printable Invitation and Rubber Duckie Birthday Party Printable Coordinating Design Accessories Collection for her son Andy's first birthday. Lorena did a fabulous job of styling the party and we are thrilled to share with you the photos, as well as Lorena's commentary!

How adorable is Andy sitting next to his cake?!

In her own words..."OK...for the kiddies we served turkey pinwheels, celery and carrot sticks and a tater-tot bar with a selection of dipping sauces (BBQ sauce, Honey mustard, Ranch, and ketchup). For the grown-ups, we had a selection of spreads; hummus and artichoke/jalapeno dip with crackers and chips. We had a chicken pasta salad, Caesar salad and turkey pinwheels. I must say, the tater tots were a big hit with the grown ups as well! The drinks were water bottles wrapped in Anders Ruff water wraps and lemonade...of course!

For the cake, we had a delectable white cake with butter cream filling covered in fondant with rubber duckies all over! Complementing the cake, blue jell-o was served in little yellow tubs with a rubber ducky "floating" in it! I got the inspiration for the #1 sign from Prudent Baby blog...the tater-tot bar was inspired by Busy Bee Lifestyle and the pinata was my own inspiration. I think I learned how to do them as a kid in Mexico and I knew I would never find a rubber duck pinata anywhere! I also made the party hats because I couldn't find just yellow hats.

While looking for a template online for party hats, I ran into one of Li'l Magoolie's posts about a cardboard box party where they had handmade hats. I remember making these hats in Mexico as well and I was thrilled I could remember how to do them! Since the hats look like little boats and this being a rubber ducky party, it made them even better. I cut out ducks from the left-over paper from the #1 sign and printed out signs that said "Andy's 1st Birthday Party" in blue paper and cut the top with scalloped scissors to make it look like mini-waves. Unfortunately, Andy wouldn't wear his!

The centerpieces were small vases and small fishbowls with blue and white glass beads with daffodils and a rubber ducky."

Lorena, Andy and Lorena's homemade pinata!

Lorena fashioned these hats out of cardboard boxes

Our coordinating birthday banner serves as a backdrop for this amazing dessert table

Lorena did a fantastic job of color coordinating the tablecloth, plates and napkins

A tater tot bar!

I spy a duck in my jello

A crunchy and healthy snack

What an adorable way to display your bottled water, Lorena!

A close up of the bottled water label that was customized with "Andy's 1st Birthday"

All of the guests took home favor pails filled with sweets and treats!

Happy 1st Birthday Andy!

Great job Mom & Dad!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

{Featured Clients} Sweet Birdie Party

Another cute Sweet Tweet Birdie Party!
{All the way from Australia!}

Larissa of My Pigeon Pair hosted such a "TWEET" party for her daughter!

We are excited to share some of her photos...
How precious is the party table?

How sweet is her daughter, Arabella?

I love how she used the party logos on the tops of these "tweet" little favor containers? (With robin's eggs candies inside!)

I love the framed announcement - so precious!

Some yummy foods were served....

The cake for Arabella...

Adorable birds nest treats...

I love the precious tree that was displayed...

Thank you, Larissa, for sharing your special party!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

{New to the Shop} 4th Of July Pinwheels Collection

We are SO excited to announce a sneak peek at our new collection
Introducing our 4th of July Pinwheels Collection.

This theme has a special meaning to us - we helped with a going away party for a friend of ours, Mette. She and her family were moving back to Italy and Caryn planned a big huge party with 100+ people. We styled it as an "Americana" theme to celebrate their time in the USA.

We figured why not make our 4th of July Collection at the same time?

So we pre shot some of the setup with our 4th of July collection.

Lots MORE photos to be released in the weeks to come...

but for now, so you can get a taste of the collection....with these few photographs.

The collection includes some essential items like several fun circular favor hang tags,....

Loads of patterned papers, party flags, party logos, treat bag toppers (S'mores kits anyone?)

Drink wraps, sparkler inserts and more....

We are so excited about this collection!

The collection includes:

- 2 Sheets of Square or Circle party Logos (8 logo designs)
- 1 Sheet of Drink wraps (5 designs)
- 1 Sheet of Favor/Gift Tags
- 1 Sheet of Blank Party Labels - Tent style
- 1 Sheet of Party Flags (3 styles)
- 1 Sheet of Sparkler Wraps
- 1 Sheet of Party Bag Toppers (tent style)
- 9 Sheets of Patterned Papers
- 1 Patterned Pennant Banner

The "4th of July Pinwheels" Collection is
available in the shop now

for 50% off!

Don't forget that we also have a second collection
for 4th of July (as featured on Amy Atlas!)
The Classic 4th of July Collection is available 50% off as well in the shop!

Enjoy!

Monday, May 2, 2011

{Featured Parties} Monkey Party

Do your kids go bananas for monkeys? This monkey party is so precious!

Erin Heflin of Whip It Good Cookies sent us her party photos and she has some super cute details to share.

I love how Erin anchored the balloons with bananas! Genius!

We were super excited because we have been wanting to chat about Erin's cookies! She recently started her own business and her cookies are precious!

Love the place settings with the sweet monkey mask and adorable cookie favors...

A shot of the beverages adorned with our printable drink wrappers....

Another shot of the tables for the kiddies.

The cupcakes, made by Erin, looked so scrumptious! She topped them off with our printable party logo and I love how she tied a little ribbon around the base of the cupcake topper - cute detail!