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Live Leather Embossing at Houston Rodeo

July 27, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Live leather embossing at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was an unforgettable experience for guests at the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) tent. We hand embossed gold foil initials on beautiful leather keyfobs.

Our leather embossing expert and CEO, Desiree Colonna, embossed over 300 leather keyfobs for guests during the 4 and a half hours she was set up. The most amazing part is the set up was in a tent outside the NRG Stadium. She had very little space to work with, yet she made it happen and ran the booth smoothly. What our clients love most about our company is our CEO not only does the leather embossing herself, sometimes alongside her team, but also answers the phone and returns calls and emails to our office within the hour.

On site leather stamping is one of our most popular event services. We are one of the first event artist agencies to offer this service nationwide and have embossed at over 500 events in 3 years.

When PwC was looking online for a live leather embossing company, they chose Inkwell Designers because they felt we had the most experience. Our site has the most extensive information about our on site leather stamping experience including videos and over 150 blog posts.

We didn’t disappoint. Everyone went home with one or two perfectly hand stamped leather keyfobs. The difference between us and our competition is how much fun we make these events. Everyone feels warmly welcome and cared from the moment we arrive to the time we pack up. We ensure everyone has a great experience and goes home with a beautiful embossed leather gift.

If you’re looking for live leather embossing for your next rodeo or corporate event, we’re here to help! Just contact our CEO, Desiree, directly at 833-INK-WE11 or 833 465-9311. We’d love to talk to you about how we can bring our live leather embossing experience to your next event!

Blog, Laser Engraving, silicone engraving, Watch Engraving

Atlanta Silicone Engraving Now Available in Georgia

July 21, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Atlanta silicone engraving services are now available in our laser engraving studio. What was once thought to be something which couldn’t be done is easy with a laser engraving machine. If your item is less than 2 inches thick, we can laser engrave it. Here is an Apple Watch band we engraved recently.

As usual, our customers encouraged us to create this process. We received a call from a local company who wanted to emboss their logo on several silicone items and that’s what started us looking into this process with our laser engraver.

Here are some pictures of our laser engraving process. Its like the story of the ugly duckling that becomes a swan. After we engrave the silicone with a laser, it looks like a hot mess of ash.

Once its cleaned off properly, it becomes a swan and, as you can see, our Atlanta silicone engraving process works perfectly! The engraving is a beautiful deboss, just like it looks when we engrave or deboss leather items.

You can see the depth we can get in each piece. We can control this to within a fraction of a millimeter. This baking mat was only .053 inches high. We were able to laser engrave the silicone within millimeters of the surface giving the perfect branding to this baking mat.

We can laser engrave Apple and other digital silicone watchbands, wristbands, parts, medical equipment, mats, silicone sheets, you name it as long as the item is less than 2 inches high.

Branded silicone items make great gifts which are inexpensive and make a lasting first impression. We can also engrave silicone wedding gifts, personal items and medical items coated with silicone.

If you have a need for our Atlanta silicone engraving service, please contact us at 833 INK-WE11 or 833 465-9311. With a little creativity, we can help you created a branded or personalized gift which will help set you apart from the pack!

Blog, Corporate Gifts, Engraved and Embossed Leather, Laser Engraving, Leather Monogramming

Georgia Engraving Company Completes CVS Project in 24 Hours

July 20, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Georgia engraving company, Inkwell Designers, performed a miracle this week.

It was a last-minute job most georgia laser engraving companies would have turned away. Not us. We were willing to try and make it happen. Once you step in the ring and face the challenge head on, miracles really do happen.

The call came in on Thursday afternoon around 5. A manager from CVS Corporate contacted us to engrave 10 leatherette notebooks as a surprise for her team on Monday. We had to get them back to her by Saturday.

The odds were stacked against our small Georgia laser engraving company. The biggest challenge is we didn’t have the notebooks they wanted in stock. We had to order them from a company called Johnson’s Plastics and hope and pray they came in the next day. To make matters worse, this was now after 4 pm on Thursday and we missed the overnight shipping cut off. We called and ordered anyway. The good news is the warehouse was located in Lawrenceville, GA and we are located in Woodstock, GA. The JP team members we worked with promised they could courier the books to us the next day and we’d get them by the afternoon. We placed the order and waited.

Johnson’s Plastics delivered on their promise! Sure enough, the notebooks arrived to our Woodstock Georgia engraving company studio by 3 pm on Friday. We had 3 hours to laser engrave them and get them to FedEx to ship out. Oh the pressure!

We were able to laser engrave the notebooks and get them all out to FedEx by 6 pm for a next day delivery on a Saturday within 3 hours! This was exactly 24 hours after we received the call from CVS Corporate. We performed a miracle because we believed we could, and we did it with no hesitation. Our Georgia engraving company became the little engine that could.

Needless to say, our contact at CVS Corporate was ecstatic! She literally squealed on the phone when we told her the notebooks were shipped and scheduled to arrive the next day. Mission accomplished!

When our customers call, we listen carefully and try our very best to make sure we deliver what we promise. Can we do this every time? Maybe not, but our little Georgia laser engraving company is willing to try and that’s half the battle. We also have a great partner in Johnson’s Plastics. They supplied the journals and really came through in a pinch with overnight shipping!

If you need laser engraving done for a last-minute project, please contact us at 833 INK-WE11 or 833 465-9311. We’d love to help!

Blog, Experiential Marketing Events, In Store Activations, Leather Debossing, Leather Monogramming, Leather Stamping Events, Live Embossing Events, Live Monogramming Events, On-Site Events

On Site Monogramming for Gillette at Barbercon in NYC

July 17, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

On site monogramming is one of our most popular experiential activations at events worldwide. We recently offered our unique leather embossing service at the Gillette booth at Barbercon in New York City. Barbercon is where all things hair and beard can be found. We set up right inside their booth next to their barber chair where they had the top barbers in the country cutting hair and trimming beards all day long with the new Gillette SkinGuard razor. We don’t take up much space so we can set up virtually anywhere.

We use hot brass dies to add initials, names, logos and custom symbols. Guests can choose from a variety of foil colors, giving their leather gift a personalized design right in front of their eyes.

We’ve worked with hundreds of Fortune 100, 500 and 1000 companies to offer on site embossing at tradeshows, conventions, private parties and in department stores. We were one of the first companies to develop leather embossing at shows and have the entire experience perfected to a tee! We are the fastest and friendliest on site embossers in the industry and we have many repeat clients all over the world.

Our CEO, Desiree Colonna, was the embossing expert at this three day event. Desiree loves to work most of our shows herself. “Working at events gives me the opportunity to meet some wonderful people as well as see some exciting cities along the way.”

Working with Royce leather in New York, we were able to offer beautiful Napa leather key fobs stamped with the company’s logo on one side. We left the other side blank where Desiree stamped the key fobs in gold foil with attendees initials. On site monogramming never looked so beautiful and elegant.

There were so many fun things at this event including custom haircuts shaped like any character you can dream of. There were a lot of creative ideas around every corner.

The on site monogramming experience was one of the most popular activations at the event and there was a line of attendees waiting for their custom key fobs every day. Guests never waited more than 3 or 4 minutes for their gift.

If you are interested in adding on site monograming to your next event please contact us at 833 INK-WE11 or 833 465-9311. We’d love to give you a same day quote!

Blog, Cognac Bottle Engraving, Experiential Marketing Events, Fragrance Bottle Engraving, Glass Engraving, In Store Activations, In-Store Engraving, Liquor Bottle Engraving, On-Site Events, Perfume Bottle Engraving, Whiskey Bottle Engraving, Wine Bottle Engraving

Hand Engraved Bottles for Father’s Day at Fort Gordon Exchange

June 30, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Hand engraved bottles of liquor and fragrance were the hit of the week at the Fort Gordon Post Exchange in Augusta, GA. We engraved over 250 bottles in 4 hours for military families in Georgia.

We were invited to engrave for Father’s Day a few weeks prior to the event by the Fort Gordon Exchange management. When we arrived on base, there was already a long line due to the advertising of our hand engraving service both online and offline. We primarily engraved Hennessy cognac bottles and Lancome fragrances but we also engraved other bottles people bought in the store.

We were busy the entire time we were there and engraved one bottle every minute! There was a lot of creativity flowing as guests had us engrave funny phrases like “Do Not Open” or “Open in an Emergency.” They loved that we could engrave the bottles with whatever they came up with. Our hand engraved bottles were something they had never seen before.

We loved serving our military men and women knowing we were helping them make their gift giving a little easier and a lot more unique. Customers loved the interaction, especially being able to watch the engraving done in front of them. We didn’t make one mistake the entire time and we were the fastest engraver they had ever seen engraving one bottle per minute.

The Hennessy and Lancome representatives were so impressed with our liquor and fragrance bottle engraving, they’ve already booked us to come back to Fort Gordon Post Exchange for the holidays. We will always be happy to oblige! We loved the experience as much as they loved having us.

Desiree and Joe enjoyed meeting everyone at the event and are already looking forward to working with the planners again later in the year.

If you are looking for hand engraved bottles at your next event, we’d love to help you make that a reality. Please contact us at (833) INK-W3LL or (833) 465-9311. Our dates are filling up for the rest of the year so please be sure to book early. You can find more information on this page.

Blog, Experiential Marketing Events, Hand Engraving, In Store Activations, In-Store Engraving, Knife Engraving, Live Monogramming Events, On-Site Events, Yoga Mat Engraving

Yoga Mat Engraving for Saks Fifth Avenue Atlanta

June 15, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Yoga mat engraving is a new service we offered after we received a request for this activation from the manager of Saks Fifth Avenue at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta. The Saks store manager was looking for a new type of activity they could offer for their Beauty Days in May. Having worked with Desiree many times before, they knew if anyone could figure it out, she could! Desiree, our CEO, loves crafting so this was a nice challenge for her.

Desiree was able to take an Xacto® knife and a stencil and cut out each letter by hand for guests. We also cut a flower for those that wanted a little more yoga mat engraving. The trick was making sure the cuts went deep enough but weren’t too close together so they would rip with use. We had to find just the right font to make the engraving work and look beautiful at the same time.

The results were stunning! Our yoga mat personalization images were some of the most like pictures on our Instagram feed.

Desiree carefully cut each letter by hand and the activation took about 4 minutes per item. None of the customers had ever seen something like this before and they loved watching her work.

The yoga mat engraving was part of Saks Fifth Avenue’s Feel Good Summer Beauty campaign. Guests were offered the free yoga mats with the option to personalize them during the three hour period. Desiree engraved 20 yoga mats during the timeframe.

If you are interested in our yoga mat engraving activation, we’d love to hear about it! Please contact us directly at 833 INK-WE11 or 833 465 9311. We would love to book a session for your guests to enjoy and give them a unique gift they can’t find anywhere else (except Saks in Atlanta)!