Even with her art and design passion, she attended the University of Michigan College of Engineering to obtain a Bachelors in Industrial and Operations Engineering. She began her career with GE Healthcare as a Diagnostic Imaging Sales Account Manager.  She met the love of her life during her sales training program, moved to North Carolina and hasn’t looked back!

Woven in between the mathematical equations and scientific principles came design inspiration and attention to detail. More than anything else, Maureen has always been completely fulfilled by simply designing and creating from her random daily inspirations. After she had her first son, Jeffrey, Maureen decided that the stressful and travel filled capital sales career was not going to work and she became a stay at home mom.

She loved staying home with her boys (Jeffrey, 6, and Pierson, 3), but had always needed a creative outlet to keep balance. Maureen started a business in 2006, Posh Papier, where she designed handmade invitations and also took on large scale art projects seen in House Beautiful and Lonny Magazine.

She loved working for herself, but always missed having a partner to bounce ideas off of, to be inspired by, and to collaborate with on late night projects. Maureen’s dream was to meet someone with the same goals, interests and vision. When she met Adria at a random preschool open house, it just clicked and she knew it was meant to be!

Anders Ruff has been a dream for Maureen and every day she wakes up with as smile knowing that she will never “work” a day in her life since this is her true passion.

Maureen’s Favorites:
TV Show: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Bachelorette
Fashion Designer: Tory Burch
Hobbies: Graphic Design and Styling (of course), Restaurant Critiquing, Tennis and Zumba
Food: Chicken Picatta with Spinach
Dessert: Cheesecake (Plain with berries)
Random: Self proclaimed OCD – enjoys buying in bulk and several of the same clothing article in various colors.

Adria was born & raised in Lancaster, Ohio.  She attended Auburn University, with a Bachelor’s of Science and studied Fashion Merchandising, Design & Product Management (specializing in Design). She met her husband in her hometown during Christmas break in college. She has been married for 11 years and has two daughters, Brynne (8) & Grayce (5).

Adria’s first job out of college was as a Costume Technician for a Ballet Company in Columbus, Ohio (Ballet Met). Following that position, she jumped over to the corporate world in Fashion. She worked for Limited Too for 6 1/2 years (now known as Justice).

Before she had her second daughter, Grayce, she quit the corporate life. While staying at home with her daughters, Adria created a small photography business in her hometown. A few years later she incorporated graphic design with her photography as well as custom invitations. (all self-taught) Once she realized what could be done with graphic design, she phased out photography and devoted her spare time to graphic work. She had finally found her true passion!!!

In December, 2009, Adria’s husband’s job was uprooted, which brought them to Fort Mill, SC. The first two months she lived here, all she did was paint and decorate her house…. until one day she bumped into (and officially met) Maureen. They hit it off immediately, and spontaneously decided to start working together in printable graphic design and called themselves “Anders Ruff”.

Their design work started selling immediately, and in a blink of an eye Anders Ruff Custom Designs had been created.
Maureen and Adria are humbled daily by the support & encouragement they have gotten from friends, family, clients and new on-line business acquaintances!

Becky was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado. While attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, she spent a semester in Australia, which is where she met her wonderful Aussie husband, Paul. She returned to Australia after finishing her degree in Business Administration, Information Systems and started work as a Training Consultant for a corporate training company. She later switched companies and worked as a Sales & Research Analyst for Lend Lease.  She had her first son in Australia and just before he turned a year, her husband’s job transfer moved them overseas to Charlotte, NC in 2006.

Becky now has 3 beautiful children (Sam age 6, Ellie age 4, and Matthew age 1) and is fortunate to be able to stay home with them. She had been doing freelance website and graphic design but was looking to do something more.  She was thrilled to be offered the opportunity to work with Anders Ruff Custom Designs. She loves reading client’s excited emails when they see their finished invitations or printables, and then seeing photos from the parties afterwards! She really enjoys working with the Anders Ruff team and is excited to be a part of the growing business!

Becky’s Favorites:
TV Shows: Modern Family, Parenthood, some reality TV
Hobbies: gardening, photography, working out, visiting new places
Favorite Destinations: Hawaii, Australia, anywhere in the mountains
Food: anything Italian, raspberries, peanut butter
Dessert: chocolate mud cake, cheesecake
Random: I don’t usually like to travel back to places I’ve already been. So if I do, you’ll know I really like it there!

Caryn is a midwestern girl – born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin and attended Miami of Ohio. After college, Caryn moved to Chicago and joined the marketing team at Chicago Children’s Museum as the Corporate Events Manager. Working in events meant tons of late nights nearly every Friday and Saturday night. She worked on everything from corporate parties and fundraisers to events with Hilary Clinton and the Cartoon Network. Seeing all these fabulous events made up for the lack of sleep!

After deciding she was done trudging through the snow and shoveling out her car, she moved to Charlotte, jobless, to be closer to her now husband, Andy, who was at school in Virginia. Caryn soon found a job working for a law firm, initially doing business development, but then was asked to head up the attorney recruitment effort – which meant planning nearly 40 events every summer to entertain the law students. She was in her element!

After having her first daughter, Elyse, almost 6, she began working from home. When Caryn had her second daughter, Lauren, 3, she quit to be a full-time stay-at-home mom.

Elyse began kindergarten and Lauren finally started preschool and suddenly, for the first time in nearly 6 years, she had some free time. Caryn had always been amazed by Maureen and Adria’s work and was excited to be trained and brought on board as a Design Editor for them. It was impeccable timing! Caryn feels SO fortunate and loves “meeting” every client by working on their invitations!

Caryn‘s Favorites:
TV Show: Modern Family, Entourage and The Office.  Guilty pleasure: reality TV
Hobby: Dining out with friends, consignment shopping and selling, working out, volunteering at school/pre-school
Favorite Travel Spot: St. John, USVI
Food: Lobster Ravioli, Sushi
Dessert: Moose Tracks Ice Cream and Mandie’s cakes (of Got What it Cakes) – best cake ever!
Random: I recently completed my first triathlon!

Carrie grew up in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, named Orchard Park (home of the Buffalo Bills). She attended Smith College and moved back to Buffalo to be closer to her family, finishing out her BA in Communication at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

She married and moved with her then husband to Charleston, South Carolina, where her son Bryce was born in 1999. A move to Charlotte, North Carolina, followed in 2000 and she continued to stay at home with Bryce. Her second son Simon was born in 2002 and she began to get the itch to go back to work shortly thereafter.

Carrie has worked as an Executive Assistant for eight years and loves what she does! She also has an entrepreneurial flair and when she met Maureen and Adria, she knew that joining Anders Ruff part-time was her chance to bring that entrepreneurial passion to fruition.

As Director of Social Media and Marketing for Anders Ruff Custom Designs, Carrie uses social media and networking to grow the business and promote the Anders Ruff name. Carrie remains employed full-time as an Executive Assistant. Her part-time work for Anders Ruff involves working the Twitter-verse, so to speak, as well as connecting with potential advertisers and giveaway sponsors.

Carrie is enjoying this phase of her life and looks forward to growing with Anders Ruff Custom Designs!

Carrie’s Favorites:
TV Show: Most anything on Bravo, South Park (I know, I know), Pawn Stars, Pickers, Cody and the other guy from that Survival show
Fashion Designer: Purse Designer: MZ Wallace
Hobby: Google+, Twitter, Running
Food: See Dessert
Dessert: Iced sugar cookies, hot fudge sundaes, chocolate mousse cake w/whipped cream & ice cream, airplane cookies (you know the kind they give out sometimes)
Random: She flips cars like some people flip houses

Heidi was raised in Charlotte, NC. She attended Belmont Abbey College on a soccer scholarship and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Care Management. After working in Human Resources for several years she knew that the corporate grind was not for her. She wanted a job that would allow her to express her creative side and work with children. So, she went back to school to obtain a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Elementary Education from Queens University.

In 2003 she met her husband at an education job fair and fourteen months later they were married. In 2007 their first child, Tatum, was born and Heidi became a full time stay at home mom. In 2009 she had her second daughter, Tyler, and a life of stinky diapers, peek a boo, and sweet snuggles continued.

When Anders Ruff began in 2010, Heidi caught a glimpse of their work and immediately fell in love with their style and design. A little over a year later she was in a position where her girls were getting a bit older and she was starting to think about the next phase of her life. Coincidentally, Anders Ruff was also growing and had advertised the need for a little more help. She is truly ecstatic to be working with such amazing and creative women in a job she feels truly passionate about!

Heidi’s Favorites:
TV Show: Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, and any reality TV show (including fist pump’in with Jersey Shore and my favorite meatball, Snooki!)
Hobbies: Crafting, Calligraphy, and she’ll second Adria’s “wine”
Food: PIZZA and spinach nachos
Dessert: crème brulee and warm chocolate chip cookie sundae
Random: She has a small, but controllable aversion to odd numbers

Sonya was born and raised in Lynchburg, VA. She attended Radford University and remained in the VA area until her family decided to move to the Carolinas. While living in Raleigh, NC she met her wonderful husband, Rob and in 1999, they moved and started a family together in beautiful Mount Pleasant, SC.

In 2002 Sonya got her Real Estate license. After six years of selling homes and a promotion to Area Sales Manager with a nationally known home builder, she made the decision to become a stay at home mom to her son, Riley. In her crazy life of blanket forts and scavenger hunts she still felt there was a little something missing.

In 2008, her family was relocated to Fort Mill, SC for her husband’s job. It was around that time that she realized her interest in the world of graphic design. Until recently she was self-taught and just this year decided to make it official and go back to school. In September, she became a member of the Anders Ruff team and couldn’t be more excited because it allows her time to attend school, to be with her family and to work in a field she happens to love!

Sonya’s Favorites:
TV Shows: Modern Family, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods
Hobbies: Digital Design, Photography
Obsession: Bags! Her favorite, a Kate Spade diaper bag she still cannot part with…even though her precious son has been out of diapers for over two years.
Destination: Sunny Jamaica
Food: Anything Italian
Dessert: Crème Brulee
Random: Her cousin, Ryan Case is an Editor on a TV show that 5 out of 7 of the Anders Ruff team listed as their favorite… Modern Family! She’s been nominated twice and actually WON an Emmy last year!