School Day Printable Collection Sneak Peek!

Here are a few sneak peeks from our School Day Printables photo shoot!  Becca Bond captured the most amazing photos!

This is a great collection of items that you can use throughout the school year as labels, on teacher gifts, etc.

We had so much fun shooting this in an old one-room 1890 schoolhouse!

Our class pet, Elroy, even had fun!

 

Stay tuned for the full photoshoot in a later post!

Our School Day Printable Collection is available in the shop for $15!

Sneak Peek of Haunted Halloween & Adoption Request

On Friday, we shot our Haunted Halloween Printable Collection. (coming soon to the shop!)
The night before the photoshoot, we realized that we couldn’t do a Halloween photoshoot without a black cat (of course!).

Adria went early in the morning to the Humane Society to “borrow” a cat.
She was stunned at the amount of cats that are available for adoption at our local Humane Society. The kitty was so sweet and we wish we could have kept him!

If you are interested in adopting this kitty (we are near Charlotte)
here is the contact info and info about the kitty:

VF #4614 A
DSH/Black
Male
DOB 3-1-11

www.HumaneSocietyofYorkCounty.org
[email protected] (Vickie is the contact)

Anders Ruff 4th of July Pinwheels Party

Sweet Things Couture Fashion Show

 

 

 

We recently worked on a custom design project for Sweet Things, a fabulous online clothing shop.

We designed chic couture fashion show printable graphics for the event.

Sweet Things introduced 12 new designs to their clothing line and held a fashion show and after party that is the cutest. We love the colors, clothing, kiddies and decor.

I am exited to share the photo shoot of the fashion show.

Lots of eye candy, so take a look….

Press: Our Pirate Collection in Woman’s World Magazine

4th Of July Pinwheels Collection: Sneak Peek!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Has Sprung: Spring Photo Session by Christine Racz

She recently had a Spring mini photo shoot session for her clients.
Christine created a backdrop inspired by our Easter Has Sprung collection photo shoot
using shelving to display spring decor.

 

{Sale Notice}
Our “Easter Has Sprung” Printable Design collection is available in the shop for
50% off through April 17th!

Giveaway: Props from Our Easter Shoot!

Giveaway Description:

The Ribbon Topiary from She’s {kinda} Crafty as well

as the Sweet Headband from Sweet Things Kids (both pictured above).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Dessert Table Fun from My Sugar Scape

We love when clients send us pictures of our printables in action! The gals at My Sugar Scape recently staged a photo shoot with our Easter has SPRUNG Printable Design Collection entitled, “Easter Dessert Table fun with Printables and Cookies.” Here is a peek at their fabulous work.
 

Thanks to Ryall of My Sugar Scape for such an awesome display!

"LUCKY St. Patrick’s Day" Printable Design Collection

The “LUCKY St. Patrick’s Day” Printable Design Collection

14 pages of printable designs perfect for any St. Patrick’s Day party,
kids event, school treats or a simple decoration fix!

We used argyle, polka dot, diagonal stripes, shamrock patterns…
inspired by Preppy Spring fashion and Irish luck!

Get Yours Here….

“I Heart Valentine’s Day” Collection Photo Shoot

This post is image heavy…

Are you smiling yet?

This is funny. The first photo Becca took of (my son) Pierson and Arden was this…
… the second shot….
It just took Arden’s mom coming into the room and doing something cute to light up their faces!

Printable valentines with a folding pocket envelope to put around the valentine…

Beautiful macarons from Sparkles Kitchen…

Vintage Glam New Year’s Eve Printable Collection

We found “Black jack” old fashioned chewing gum (perfect shade of blue!) and wrapped them with our coordinating patterned papers to set out for guests to take.

Water bottles were decorated with festive printable wraps.

 

Food and Desserts

- Light Blue Chocolate dipped mini pretzel rods with white chocolate and light blue sugar crystals were displayed in small glasses.

- White and dark chocolate dipped strawberries were served in chocolate cups

- Oreo Truffles were served on lollipop sticks with a “bow tie” patterned paper embellishment to dress them up.

- Jellied Strawberry Champagne was served with a festive logo toothpick

- Small mint chocolates were drizzled and sparked w/ hot pink sugars.

- Miniature cupcakes were served with hot pink cream cheese icing.

- White chocolate mousse was served with a hot pink sugar crystal stick, with a coordinating party flag label attached.

- Cheeses and crackers were displayed with toothpicks and party flag embellishments.

- Champagne was served and the bottles were dressed up with a coordinating bottle wrap.

 

 

Credits and Sources

- Table Styling and Printable Graphic Design Package by Anders Ruff Custom Designs (shop.andersruff.com/ orwww.andersruff.com)

- Photography by Becca Bond Photography (www.beccabondphotography.com)

- Sugar Cookies by Allyson Jane Designer Desserts (www.allysonjane.com)

- Cupcake Liners from The Cupcake Social (www.thecupcakesocial.com)

- Decor from Social Couture (Candelabra, plastic “silver”ware, pink candle holders, mirrored balls, Takeout favor boxes)

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ANDERS RUFF CUSTOM DESIGNS

Sneak Peek: A Super Sweet Valentine’s Day Shoot

We had fabulous contributors:
Allyson Jane designer cookies
Sparkles Kitchen
MiniMooh
Sweet Petal Bakery
This Charming Candy
The Cupcake Social (as always!)
and of course Anders Ruff for graphics and styling

I can’t wait to share the photographs with you all! The printable collection will be available in our shop soon!

Meanwhile, can you guess what this is? (Its a GREAT DIY project that we will be sharing from the Valentine’s Shoot)

Photo Shoot: Classic Holiday Collection

Adria and I had a whirlwind of a month! Late nights printing, cutting, prepping, decorating, lining trays, matting, and more! We are thrilled with how these holiday collection photo shoots turned out. Today, we are showing you the Classic Holiday collection shoot.

We know that you all are super creative and crafty and can mimic these ideas and even come up with your own ideas by using our classic holiday printable designs! We would LOVE to see what you do with our new holiday printable collections!

Introducing The Anders Ruff Custom Design Team

Becca Bond from Becca Bond Photography captured some really fun moments of us a couple weeks ago. Becca is a dream to work with. She has amazing composition skills and just an overall super talent with beautiful photography that really does reflect our true personalities!

Anders Ruff

Maureen Anders

About Maureen
I was brought up in Novi, Michigan by 2 interior designer parents. I grew up surrounded by creativity and design and have always had a true passion for creating my own masterpieces. Drawing and sketching, painting and paper crafts, sewing and smocking,… the list goes on. Ever since I was a little girl, I had an obsession with paper and crafts. It was the only thing on my “wish list” to Santa every year!

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

Woven in between the mathematical equations and scientific principles came design inspiration and attention to detail. More than anything else, I have always been completely fulfilled by simply designing and creating from my random daily inspirations. After I had my first son, Jeffrey, I decided that the stressful and travel filled capital sales career was not going to work.

I love staying home with my boys (Jeffrey, 5, and Pierson, 2), but have always needed a creative outlet to keep me balanced. I started a business, Posh Papier, where I designed handmade invitations and also took on large scale art projects. I loved working for myself, but always missed having a partner to bounce ideas off of, inspire eachother, and collaborate on late night projects. My dream was to meet someone with the same goals, interests and vision. When I met Adria at a random preschool open house, it just clicked and I knew it was meant to be!
From there, Anders Ruff was created. I couldn’t be more excited about what we are doing together as a team!
-Maureen

Adria Ruff

About Adria
I was born & raised in Lancaster, Ohio. I lived there until college – where I attended Auburn University, with a Bachelor’s of Science and studied Fashion Merchandising, Design & Product Management (specializing in Design). I met my husband in my hometown while home during Christmas break in college. We have been married for 11 years and have two daughters, Brynne (8) & Grayce (5).

My first job out of college was as a Costume Technician for a Ballet Company in Columbus, Ohio (Ballet Met). Following that position, I jumped over to the corporate world in Fashion. I worked for Limited Too for 6 1/2 years (now known as Justice) – half of that time I worked in the Technical Design dept (clothing engineering), and the other half I was a Web PDM Administrator – implementing the product data management system that they now use.

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

In December, 2009 my husband’s job was uprooted, which brought us to Fort Mill, SC. The first two months we lived here, all I did was paint and decorate my house…. until one day I bumped into (and officially met) my business partner, Maureen. We hit it off immediately, and spontaneously decided to start selling graphic designs for invitations on etsy. We both had done it on our own, and knew partnering up, would be so much better!

Our design work started selling immediately, and in a blink of an eye we had created Anders Ruff Custom Designs. I still (8 months later) am like – Wow – did we really do this???

We are humbled daily by the support & encouragement we have gotten from friends, family, clients and new on-line business acquaintances!
-Adria

Anders Ruff
Established February 2010
Photoshoot with Becca Bond Photography

Anders Ruff – New Team Additions…
About a month ago we brought on Carrie Kane to help us keep up with social media and marketing of our company. We shared a little info with you back then, but we are excited to share Carrie’s bio with you. Carrie has been a tremendous help to us in keeping us connected to the world and allowing us time to get involved in some really fun collaborations!

With our quick growth, we also recently hired on 2 very talented design editors! We wouldn’t be able to create as many new collections and photo shoots if we didn’t have the help of our design editors to help free up some time for us. We are so excited to introduce Caryn Johnson and Becky Jacob. They have been AMAZING to work with and we are so excited for our new team additions! (in alphabetical order, of course!)

Carrie Kane
About Carrie
I grew up in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, called Orchard Park (home of the Buffalo Bills). I attended Smith College for one year and then decided to move back to Buffalo to be closer to my family, finishing out my degree in Communication at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

I married fairly quickly and moved with my then husband to Charleston, South Carolina, where our son Bryce was born in 1999. Then, a move to Charlotte, North Carolina, followed in 2000, where I continued to stay at home with Bryce. Our second son, Simon came along in 2002, and I started to get the itch to go back to work shortly thereafter.

I have worked as an Executive Assistant for close to eight years and love what I do; however there has always been an entrepreneurial side of me that has remained unfulfilled. When I met Maureen and Adria, I knew that this was my chance to bring that entrepreneurial passion to fruition.

As the Director of Social Media and Marketing for Anders Ruff Custom Designs, I use social media and networking to try and grow our business and promote the Anders Ruff name. I remain employed full-time as an Executive Assistant; and my additional spare time is spent working the Twitterverse, so to speak, for Anders Ruff and reaching out to as many bloggers as I can to try and get our company the exposure and clout that it deserves.

I guess you could say that I wear three hats: Mother; Executive Assistant; and Director of Social Media and Marketing. There is not much time left over; however, I do love to exercise and am an avid runner.

I am really enjoying this phase of my life and look forward to growing with Anders Ruff Custom Designs!
-Carrie

Becky Jacob

About Becky
I was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado. While attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, I spent a semester in Australia, which is where I met my wonderful husband. I returned to Australia after finishing my degree in Business Administration. While living there, I worked as a Training Consultant for a corporate training company and later as a Sales & Research Analyst for Lend Lease.

A job transfer moved us to Charlotte, NC over 4 years ago. We have 3 children and I am fortunate to be able to stay home with them. I had been doing freelance website and graphic design and was thrilled to be offered the opportunity to work with Anders Ruff Custom Designs. I have really enjoyed working with Maureen and Adria as they have such creative designs and visions. I am excited to be a part of their growing business!
-Becky

Caryn Johnson
About Caryn
I’m a midwestern girl – born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin and I attended Miami of Ohio. After college, I 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. I 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 I was done trudging through the snow and shoveling out my car, I moved to Charlotte, jobless, to be closer to my now husband, Andy, who was at school in Virginia. I 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. I was in my element!

After having my first daughter, Elyse, almost 6, I began working from home. When I had my second daughter, Lauren, 3, I 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, I had some free time. I had always been amazed by Maureen and Adria’s work and they were sweet enough to train me and bring me on board as a Design Editor for them. It was impeccable timing! I feel SO fortunate and love “meeting” every client by working on their invitations!
-Caryn

We LOVE the new additions to our team!

Some fun outtakes from our morning with Becca Bond…

A HUGE special thanks to Becca Bond Photography!
Check out Becca’s beautiful photography at www.beccabondphotography.com
and find her on facebook, too!

We are so thankful for our clients and fans who have allowed us to grow and do what we love.

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