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Covid-19 Response Shop Now Open

April 22, 2020 By Desiree Colonna

Covid-19 Response Shop is not something we thought we’d put on our site, ever, but here we are.

The popularity of our Medical Mask Hooks is overwhelming. We’ve sent hooks to almost every part of the country as well as Canada. We donated one hook for every one sold. This allowed us to donate over 3,500 medical mask hooks to our hospitals and medical workers in Georgia over the past 2 weeks.

Our medical mask hooks have been featured in the Awards and Engraving online magazine as well as the Advertising Specialty Institute’s online Promogram.

Our clients also began asking us if we provided masks and other protective equipment in our Covid-19 Response Shop. This prompted us to look at what else we could provide which would help people in this extraordinary time we now find ourselves in.

The Covid-19 Response Shop now includes masks, neck gaiters, t-shirts and some other protective wearable gear. Our t-shirts were specially created to celebrate our medical heroes all inspired by our medical mask hooks. We also decided to have a little fun with our designs as you can see below. Most items can be personalized with a logo, design or photo.

Our ultimate goal is to donate 50% of our profits from our Covid-19 Response Shop back to our local medical community from the proceeds driven from our store. This will also help us to provide more free medical mask hooks to our local community hospitals now and in the future.

We’ve even found an interesting face shield which can be attached to a “dad cap” and worn to the store or wherever you feel you need it.

You can find all of our items in our store under Covid-19 Response Store.

If you would like to recommend other items, or are looking for something in particular, we are always open for suggestions. Just email us at the link below or give us a call at 833 INK-WE11 or 833 465-9311. We’d love to hear from you and help provide you with products you can’t find anywhere else.

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Medical Mask Hooks and How You Can Help

April 4, 2020 By Desiree Colonna

At a time where necessity truly is the mother of invention, we’ve put our laser to work in our Covid-19 response helping create these flexible Medical Mask Hooks for our community healthcare providers. These are made out of an innovative flexible acrylic from Johnsons Plastics. We used flexible acrylic versus rigid because our very first test hook broke immediately when testing. The flexible material makes all the difference! While our colleagues in the industry rushed to get rigid, breakable acrylic out the door, we took our time and made sure these were created from the best material for their use. Flexible, soft acrylic.

The ear mask side loops are held by the medical mask hooks in the back of the head to help keep the mask tight around the face. Another benefit is the masks no longer loop around the ears, causing abrasion and soreness the medical community has reported. These hooks prevent any soreness and are very comfortable to wear over the ears, not on the ears. They are also adjustable.

We wanted to do our part so we took a look at how others were being made. We first tried 1/8″ acrylic but found they broke in a short period of time and weren’t comfortable due to the medical mask hooks being inflexible. Experimenting with a new material, Lucent Transclucent acrylic, we saw the difference immediately as you can below. These medical mask hooks were not only flexible but comfortable and effective.

If you are interested in purchasing our medical mask hooks, we are using 100% of the donation to buy materials so we can make more and donate to our local community and others who may want these. One hook donated for every one purchased.

Here is the link https://www.inkwelldesigners.com/store/Medical-Mask-Hook-p187579544 Let’s do our part to create our own community Covid-19 response in helping our medical workers.

UPDATE: We’ve created over 3,500 so far and are delivering them to our local hospitals. They are so thankful for these! We have a lot more to go. A HUGE thank you goes out to everyone who has purchased these from our local medical community!

We are still open and taking orders for everything in our ecommerce store found here www.inkwelldesigners.com/store. We truly appreciate the support we’ve had in our local community and beyond during these tough economic times. Please don’t hesitate to call us at 833-INK-WE11 or 833-465-9311. We’d love to help provide beautiful gifts for upcoming events in your life and can send items as far as you can dream. We also provide safe pick-up and drop-offs locally.

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Baseball Glove Personalization for Dick’s Sporting Goods

February 23, 2020 By Desiree Colonna

Baseball glove personalization is one of our specialties. After seeing our work online at the MLB All Star Game in Washington D.C., Dick’s Sporting Goods® reached out to our CEO, Desiree Colonna and asked her to bring our personalization service to their stores around the country.

Dick’s wanted a special activation to offer parents and kids before the start of the little league baseball season. We were more than happy to work with them! Our first events took us to Frisco, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina on the same day.

We personalized baseball gloves by using a burning pen to brand the lighter colored gloves and gold, silver or white paint pens to add names to the dark colored gloves. The burned names are permanent and the pens are waterproof, but semi-permanent.

“Walkoff Weekend” was filled with a lot of fun and surprises including a raffle for a Yeti® cooler and a $500 gift card. However, the baseball glove personalization table was always busy. We personalized over 100 gloves combined in the two cities we visited.

Both kids and parents loved our baseball glove personalization. (We even snuck in a couple baseball bats!) The main reason people want their gloves personalized is to discourage anyone from taking their glove. Having a name on a glove also helps kids find their glove faster if someone else has the same baseball glove.

We will continue to travel to nine more cities across the country bringing our personalized baseball glove activation to many more families. Our travels include many major cities between Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine. You can find our entire schedule on our calendar page.

We also offer baseball glove personalization (and other sports equipment) to our clients as a service. Click here to find more details and options including a bonded vinyl version where we can add any font in any color to your glove.

If you’d like to bring our activations to your next event, please contact us at 833-INK-WE11 or 833-465-9311. We’d love to talk to you about how we can create a buzz with your guests and make them feel special!

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Bottle Engraving Brings Cupid to Local Vine in Atlanta

February 18, 2020 By Desiree Colonna

Bottle engraving at Local Vine in Atlanta brought out the cupid in shoppers this Valentine’s Day. We walked in and there were over 10 people lined up waiting for us before we even arrived! We knew we had a fun and busy day ahead of us when we saw the line. We loved the fact the store did a great job marketing the engraving experience for their customers. It always makes a huge difference in the turnout.

Our engraving is extremely popular in the Atlanta area. We have been engraving wine and liquor for over 4 years. Our CEO, Desiree Colonna, is a Certified Master Engraver. Her husband, Joe, helped color the bottle engraving with a silver or gold finish.

We engrave wine and liquor bottles with a hand-held high-speed drill. We engrave a calligraphy font on the glass creating thin and deep grooves which are then filled with a gold or silver metallic color. Our bottle engraving experience is very unique and takes a lot of skill and patience. However, our engravers are some of the fastest in the country. We average 60 seconds to engrave one bottle. Needless to say, we were busy engraving the entire 4 hours!

This engraved bottle was created for a gentleman getting married in August. He is going to present this to his fiance on their special day.

Many of our guests follow us online all year to find out where we will be engraving. This lady had us decorate a bottle of liquor to celebrate her first night in her first home.

Another lady had us engrave a bottle for her friend for Galentine’s Day.

Our client, Local Vine, was very happy with the results and we helped them sell more wine and liquor than usual. They have already booked us to come back for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas again this year.

If you are interested in having your wine or liquor bottle engraved (or fragrances too!) we would love to work with you. We can create this activation at most any event and take up very little space. We also have many people who bring their bottles into our studio. Contact us here or call us at 833 INK WE11 or 833 465 9311. We’d love to make your next gifting occasion even more special!

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Live Event Embossing for Cushman & Wakefield in Orlando

January 23, 2020 By Desiree Colonna

Live event embossing activations are one of the most popular services we offer the event industry. We recently worked with Cushman & Wakefield, commercial real estate brokers, at a convention in Orlando, Florida.

Our live embossing event consisted of adding guests monogram in gold or silver foil to leather keyfobs and journals. We monogrammed over 200 items within a 3 hour event. Guests lined up with excitement the moment we arrived and started setting up our equipment. The buzz grew throughout the three hours we were there and the line never ended.

The keyfobs and journals were made of genuine leather. Our live embossing event included stamping up to 3 letters of a monogram in gold foil, silver foil or with no color. We stamped the logo on the items before the event and added the monogram on the other side.

We had two embossers at this live event. Each could stamp 60 items per hour.

Guests love the live event embossing activation so much we were out of product at the very end. The lines never ended the entire time we were there.

This lady had us emboss a keyfob for her 3 week old grandchild. She was so excited to give her daughter this gift. “Its my grandson’s first monogrammed gift!” she exclaimed. We love stories like these at our live event embossing activations! Our monogramming makes a beautiful gift for any occasion.

We had a lot of guests tell us how wonderful the activation was. There is something about seeing your initials put on an item during an event which is magical.

If you are interested in hiring us for your next event, please contact desiree@inkwelldesigners.com or call us at 833-465-9311 or (833) INK-WE11. We’d love to provide a quote for our live event embossing!

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Party Table Decorations for Sugarbear Sleep

November 25, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Party table decorations made of clear acrylic, laser cut and engraved, were the talk of the night at the Sugarbear Sleep launch party hosted by People® Magazine in New York City. We created custom stir sticks, food menus and drink menus specifically for the event. Laser cutting and engraving were needed in order to custom create the acrylic items they wanted at the event.

Party table decorations are always created with a theme in mind. The cute Sugarbear “bear” was the theme we used for each item.

The stir sticks were fun because we cut out the Sugarbear logo on them. That was an unexpected twist–get it?

The menus also had the bear engraved on the bottom. Party table decorations are always fun to create because we can get very innovative with our laser equipment.

The food and drink menus also carried the Sugarbear theme with the logo laser engraved on the bottom. We had to use a laser to cut the acrylic and to get the fine details our client was looking for. We can cut any shape and detail you’d like with our laser machine.

We laser cut and engraved all party table decorations with our studio laser. The frosted engraving turned out beautifully.

Our party table decorations were the perfect addition to this event which helped launch the new Sugarbear Sleep product. The event was hosted by People® Magazine and held in New York City. Our laser cut clear acrylic is the perfect modern accessory for any party and went with the entire theme. We can also find acrylic in any color you would like including mirror and frosted colors.

If you’re looking for custom party table decorations, we can help! We’d love to hear about your project and design items with our laser cutting and engraving service. Contact us at 833 INK-WE11 or 833 465-9311 before your next event.