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Sustainable Cork Embossing Now Available for Events

November 10, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Sustainable cork embossing and cork items are now available from Inkwell Designers for events including trade shows and conferences. Our vegan cork is sourced directly from Portugal and is 100% renewable. We can stamp gold, silver or rose gold foil monograms on each item at your booth. We guarantee lines will form quickly and your booth will be the talk of the trade show or conference!

Cork is harvested for commercial use primarily from the bark of the Cork Oak tree. Sustainable cork embossing is a renewable activation. Portugal produces 50% of cork worldwide. Cork’s elasticity together with its near-impermeability makes it suitable as a material for luggage tags, card holders, wallets, purses, journals and, of course, wine bottles.

Did you know cork can be found in the tombs of the Egyptians? That’s how ancient this material is! It holds up to our embossing beautifully. Your guests will see items that are unique and different with our sustainable cork embossing. Plus, our sustainable cork items are 100% environmentally friendly and vegan.

Our owner, Desiree Colonna, recently worked an event at the Web Summit for PitchBook in Lisbon, Portugal and fell in love with all of the cork products available there. She couldn’t wait to share her amazing find with her clients and knew it would be popular as a new event activation. She was even more excited once she saw how beautifully it could be embossed and even laser engraved!

A totally natural product, cork is environmentally friendly, renewable, recyclable, and biodegradable. There is enough cork today in the forests of Portugal to last more than 100 years. Our sustainable cork embossing activation is totally unique and will make your guests feel great knowing they are supporting the environment.

If you are looking for a beautiful gift for your corporate guests, look no further. We have sourced the best cork products directly from Portugal to use for corporate and personal gifts as well as events worldwide.

If you are interested in a sustainable cork embossing activation at your next event or if you would like to purchase cork for corporate or personal gifts, please contact us directly at 833-INK-WE11 or 833-465-8311.

Blog, Book Stamping, Engraved and Embossed Leather, Experiential Marketing Events, Leather Monogramming, Leather Stamping Events, Live Embossing Events, Live Monogramming Events, On-Site Events

Leather Embossing Experience in Lisbon for PitchBook Data

November 9, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Our leather embossing experience is always a favorite activation at events for our clients and their guests. If you want lines in your booth, this is the way to do it. Our leather stamping experience is always a big hit at conferences around the world! Our latest embossing event was in Lisbon, Portugal.

We were invited to create our leather embossing experience for guests at the PitchBook Investor booth at WebSummit 2019. We embossed journals one day and luggage tags a couple days later at the event. After we were done on day one, people never stopped coming by looking for us. There was even a line waiting for us the second day of our leather stamping activation!

Word got out quickly among conference attendees the first day of our activation and spread like wildfire. Our client, PitchBook Data, even asked us to stay 30 minutes later the first day and also add more hours our second day in order to fulfill everyone’s orders. That’s how popular our leather embossing experience always is, no matter where in the world we go! Our client was blown away at the popularity of the activation and very pleased at how many people came to the booth.

The key to successful event activations is making sure there are enough salespeople in your booth to talk to guests while they are waiting in line for their personalized items. Keep in mind, they aren’t waiting long. Each embossing only takes less than one minute. PitchBook understood this from day one and made sure their Investor Relations folks were on hand to talk about their platform with everyone.

Our leather embossing experience was so popular, we had to turn people away at the end of the activation time. The lines never stopped! Everyone loved their stamped journals and luggage tags. It really makes a difference when you give away a high quality, personalized item at your events. People remember your company and will keep your beautiful gifts for a long time to come.

If you are interested in learning more about our leather embossing, please contact us at 833 INK-WE11 or 833-465-9311. You can also email us by filling out this form. You are welcome to set up an appointment by clicking here. We love traveling all over the world to bring our leather embossing experience to your guests no matter where they are!

Blog, Corporate Gifts, Experiential Marketing Events, On-Site Events, Vinyl Personalization

Personalized Water Bottles for Chick-fil-A®

November 1, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Our personalized water bottles created at an event held at the Chick-fil-A corporate office were so popular, employees at the store in St. Augustine, Florida called and requested them. The local St. Augustine public relations and marketing team heard about how we customized water bottles with vinyl onsite at the corporate office and asked for our help making the transition from foam cups to plastic water tumblers fun and exciting for their employees.

We personalized the water bottles to support the initiative very dear to them, environmental conservation in an area inhabited by sea turtles. Fun fact: Many Florida beaches welcome over 100,000 female turtles who lay their eggs every year! Using plastic cups instead of foam greatly reduces the environmental impact on these beautiful and wild sea creatures.

We customized the water bottles to order after the store marketing team sent us a spreadsheet with all the names, monograms and nicknames. Amazingly, we were able to turn the project around in less than a week. The logoed water bottles were sent to our office where we prepared them for the vinyl. We personalized 50 cups for the team in our studio with red permanent vinyl which matched the Chick-fil-A colors perfectly.

We used our Brother® ScannCut vinyl cutting machine to cut permanent vinyl decals for all the personalized water bottles. Then we carefully applied them in our studio and boxed them up for shipping.

We had a great time working with the Chick-fil-A staff members. They were pleasantly surprised at how many employees wanted the personalized water bottles and already plan on hiring us to create more.

If you’re looking for an event activation similar to this one for your company, please feel free to contact us at (833) INK-WE11 or (833) 465-9311. We’d love to create customized items for your next corporate event!

Blog, Glass Engraving, Hand Engraving, Liquor Bottle Engraving, On-Site Events

Liquor Engraving Events for Bacardi®

October 29, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Our liquor engraving events for Bacardi® and hip hop recording artist, Swizz Beatz in Atlanta were served neat in a beautiful glass. The events were the hit of the town this month. We added a special touch with our on-site hand engraving.

We hand engraved Bacardi Diez rum bottles in the VIP Rum Room for the media as special gifts and a thank you for coming to the event. We used our special high speed drill to engrave names, phrases and even images on bottles throughout the night. The liquor engraving events were to celebrate the launch of this wonderful aged rum.

Our rum engraving took less than 60 seconds per bottle. We engraved 10 cases of rum in a very short time. Each bottle was carefully engraved by hand with our calligraphy style font.

The liquor engraving event was set up at the Southern Exchange Ballrooms in downtown Atlanta. The room was beautifully designed with a rum tasting bar. Guests could mingle and also check out the cigar roller next to us for a hand rolled cigar.

Many guests had never seen rum engraving before and absolutely fell in love with our liquor engraving activation. We even had guests call us the next day for new hand engraving orders.

Our engraving table didn’t take up much space. We needed a 6 ft table and two chairs. We provided our own equipment and lighting.

The bottles were packed in beautiful bags supplied by Bacardi and were easy to transport after the night was over.

If you are interested in experiencing our liquor engraving activation at your next event, please contact us directly at 833 INK WE11 or 833 465 9311. We also hand engrave liquor locally and can help you find a purchase your bottle. Its an one-stop gift service you won’t find anywhere else.

Blog, Engraved and Embossed Leather, Experiential Marketing Events, Leather Monogramming, Leather Stamping Events, Live Embossing Events, Live Monogramming Events, On-Site Events

Leather Stamping Activation with Apple Pay at the Chicago Marathon

October 15, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Our leather stamping activation in Chicago, exclusively created for marathon runners and their guests, was an exciting experience they had not seen before. We set up our pop-up shop at two Fleet Feet sports locations on the day of the marathon and the day after.

Guests were encouraged to use their Apple Pay application on their iPhone to purchase leather keyfobs at the leather stamping activation in both stores. We create leather stamping and other types of activations worldwide.

The keyfobs were beautifully hand-cut leather and were sold for $2 each.

Finishers were lined up in droves to get their medals engraved for free at each store. While they waited for the engraving, they could quickly step over into the leather stamping activation line and get a keyfob stamped with the date of the marathon, their run time or their initials.

We stamped close to 400 leather keyfobs in two days in two separate locations in Chicago.

Runners loved the fact they could personalize their new keyfobs in gold foil or no color. The beautifully, elegant leather keyfobs were a big hit and they were the perfect reminder of a personal PR or running achievement. Friends and family could get their names or initials on their keyfobs to match.

We created a special die for the date and then interchangable text dies for the initials and running times. The leather stamping activation was a huge hit with the crowd because they could customize their items with many choices.

We really enjoyed meeting Chicago Marathon runners at the stores and talking to them while they waited for their medals to be engraved. They had some great stories and really glowed with pride, even though their legs and feet were sore. Fleet Feet had recovery chairs and massages ready and waiting for them while they waited. Everyone was in great spirits and we enjoyed working with the runners and their families.

If you are looking for a very unique activation for your next sports event, look no further. We’d love to help make your event as successful as our Chicago Marathon activation. Please contact us here or call us at (833) INK-WE11 or (833) 465-9311.

Blog, Experiential Marketing Events, Leather Monogramming, Leather Stamping Events, Live Embossing Events, Live Monogramming Events, On-Site Events

Live Event Artists Embossing for BlackRock

October 5, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Live event artists are a hot trend at conferences and trade shows. Our artists embossed card cases and journals for BlackRock at the Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida. At our previous activation for BlackRock we also embossed journals in San Diego at the LPL conference. When BlackRock saw how successful the embossing activation was at the San Diego event, we were asked to partner with them again at their next conference.

Our live embossing artists embossed attendees initials in gold or silver foil or no foil color. The reaction of some of our attendees was priceless!

We embossed over 2,500 items in three days at the BlackRock booth. The most amazing thing is we had people waiting in line every, single day! The lines never stopped, and neither did we. We only took two, 15 minute staggered breaks in order to keep the line going. Attendees waited no longer than 10 to 15 minutes because our embossing takes only one minute per item. Its very fast, but the results are amazing. Our live event artists use the same high-end machines found at Louis Vuitton and other luxury stores.

Our live embossing artists had a table set up right in the booth with two embossing machines. Everyone loved the activation. As word got out, we were the most popular booth at the show, hands down! It was unofficially announced the BlackRock activation was the best swag at the show. We were told this many times by attendees throughout the three days we worked there. We even had other booth vendors from companies like Google, Facebook, Disney and Prudential coming to our booth to get gifts for their team!

Experiential activations have become very popular with conference attendees, specifically items personalized and custom created in front of their eyes live and in person.

Guests take home a beautiful gift which not only has your logo on it, but their initials. This is next-level branding at its best!

If you are interested in having our live event artists at your next conference, trade show or private event, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact here or at (833) INK-WE11 or (833) 465-9311.