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Blog, Calligraphy, Event Calligraphy, On-Site Events

On Site Calligraphy for Almay at the Coalition for Collegiate Women’s Conference

February 4, 2018 By Desiree Colonna

On site calligraphy was a popular marketing animation in the Almay® booth at the Coalition for Collegiate Women’s Leadership Annual Conference in Atlanta. Greek women leaders from all over the country came to the conference in search of learning, fun and friendship. Maggie from Her Campus Media found us online and loved our work. When she saw we did calligraphy at on site events, she called us immediately to book us for Almay booth at the conference.

Almay provided the makeup bags and Inkwell Designers provided the calligraphy. Our calligrapher, Meg, added her special calligraphy magic to over 500 bags over two days. She met women from all over the country who came to attend this special event. The Greek leaders really loved Meg’s personality as she talked with them while she added calligraphy to the makeup bags.

The women loved the bags, but most especially, enjoyed the in-person experience they had watching Meg personalize the bags with whatever they wanted right in front of them. It was truly a personal gift and one they would actually use.

On site calligraphy is always a big hit with attendees and easy to accommodate. We only require a table and a chair and no electricity.

She added their names, their sororities, their nicknames and some art, whatever they wanted. They couldn’t wait to show off their bags to their friends at the event! The Almay booth was definitely one of the most popular as word got around the first day. We worked two days at the conference and by the beginning of the second day, there was a line around the booth.

We’re not sure who had a better time, Meg or the attendees! On site calligraphy is a wonderful way to create beautiful swag for your guests at any event, both corporate and private.

If you have a conference or event and you’d like to offere your attendees on site calligraphy, please contact us directly at 833 465 9311. We’d love to work with you and make your attendees feel extra special!

Blog, Corporate Gifts, Glass Engraving, Wine Bottle Engraving

Hand Engraved Wine Bottles for Triumph Motorcycles USA Dealers

January 29, 2018 By Desiree Colonna

Hand engraved wine bottles were the gift of choice when Triumph Motorcycles® USA decided to announce winners of their Dealer of the Year Patagonia adventure trip contest in a very unique way. Inkwell Designers were there to help make this idea come to life very quickly. We had less than two weeks to pull it all together.

Emily from Triumph Motorcycles USA headquarters found Inkwell Designers℠ online and called about getting 12 bottles of Argentinian Malbec wine engraved with the Triumph logo. She asked us to find the bottles, engrave them and deliver them to her office. We took on the challenge immediately.

What Emily didn’t know is our CEO, Desiree Colonna, is an avid Triumph motorcycle rider and owns a 2012 Triumph Bonneville which she rides are her primary bike. What a thrill to work with the company that had given her the beautiful bike she loves to ride around Atlanta!

Emily wanted the logo engraved into the bottles. We can take you through the steps we took to make that happen.

We first printed the logo and mountain scheme on architect paper which has a sticky back to it.

Then we actually stuck these where they needed to be placed on the wine bottles and used a stippling motion to engrave over them. The logo and mountains are made of hundreds of hand stippled dots. This is very different from etching or sandblasting where you need a special toxic cream or machine to do the work. These wine bottles are all engraved by hand with great care.

Once we finished the stippling, we added the hand engraved calligraphy. All of this was created with a dental drill handpiece. This is the final result.

We also had our calligraphy artist, Meg Mitchell, create thank you notes by hand for each dealer which were included with the hand engraved wine bottles.

The hand engraved wine bottles were a huge hit around the office when we delivered them in person. We were treated to a tour of all the fun motorcycles in the office which was a highlight for Desiree and her husband, Joe.

There was even a very cool wall of Triumph history with various iterations of their logo and bikes throughout the years.

Desiree’s favorite bike was the custom bike with the wooden seat created for a movie.

We took this project from idea to reality and made the process so easy for Emily at Triumph. We found the bottles, picked them up, engraved them and then delivered them. All she had to do was make the call!

Our hand engraved wine bottles are the perfect gift for any occasion, both corporate and personal. If you’re interested in learning more about our process, please contact us directly at 833 465 9311 or shoot us an email. We’d love to work with you!

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

Monogrammed Trade Show Giveaways Popular at National Retail Federation Expo

January 21, 2018 By Desiree Colonna

Monogrammed trade show giveaways were voted most popular at the recent National Retail Federation show. Inkwell Designers℠ monogrammed 1,350 credit card holders and money clips for all attendees who visited the Kronos booth for three days straight. People loved see their initials in silver foil or debossed with no color on the leather items we gave them.

The National Retail Federation show, or Retail’s Big Show as some call it, is held once a year in New York City. Companies ranging from Trader Joe’s to Ralph Lauren attend to see the latest technology and software to help run their stores more efficiently. We worked at the Kronos booth for three days where attendees had their choice of monogrammed trade show giveaways including a credit card holder and a money clip in various colors.

Word quickly spread like wildfire throughout the show about the cool and unique leather monogrammed tradeshow giveaways. Other companies were asking Kronos employees to save them swag and many wanted them as gifts for their customers and families.

What really intrigued people was seeing our low-tech machines at a high-tech conference. Everyone stopped to stare at the machine as they walked by. They couldn’t figure out what it was. Was it a microscope? Some sort of tattoo machine? The name Gutenberg started to float around, the actual inventor of the printing press.

The Kronos booth became the place to be. The monogrammed trade show giveaways were so popular, Kronos ran out of them by early afternoon the third day of the show.

Here is a video that shows how popular the booth was during the show and what our set-up looked like. It was very simple. All we need is a 6 ft table and two chairs near an electrical outlet. We had two tables at this show with two machines.

Here are some comments from attendees at the show who just got their credit card holders hand monogrammed. They loved their new, personalized swag!

If you’re looking for a unique giveaway for your next trade show, something that will capture attendee’s imagination, look no further. You can find more information about our pricing and services on our event page. We can emboss, monogram, engrave and add lettering to almost any item you can think of at your next show. We’d love to work with you and make your booth the most popular! Contact us directly at 833 465 9311.

Blog, Corporate Gifts, Engraved and Embossed Leather, Leather Monogramming, On-Site Events

Monogramming Event for American Express at the International Builders’ Show

January 11, 2018 By Desiree Colonna

Our monogramming event, sponsored by American Express®, was a big hit at the International Builder’s Show in Orlando, FL. We monogrammed over 250 luggage tags for guests at the debut of the New American Home in Clermont, FL.

Our office for the evening was in this gorgeous $5.5 million dollar home. This was the view at sunset when we drove up.

American Express contacted us in November 2017 to book us for the monogramming event in January 2018. We were very pleased to work with their team. They wanted to hand out luggage tags which would we personalized on-site for each person who attended the event. Guests were given a choice of brown or navy tags and the monogram was hot stamped onto the leather right in front of them which added to the excitement! They were also able to choose between gold and silver foil.

Here is a video of how our set-up looked and how we interacted with guests at the monogramming event.

Here are some highlights from the New American Home. It was a beautiful night as you can see from the images.

We were actually set up in the office on the first floor of the home where we monogrammed each luggage tag by hand for almost every guest. The line went out the door and never stopped for the 4 hours we were there.

This is a picture of Joe and I before we started working the monogramming event. We couldn’t help but take a selfie with this beautiful home in the background.

The luggage tags were so popular, when we got back to our office in Atlanta, we were still getting calls from people at the event who wanted to order more for their staff and coworkers. It doesn’t surprise us. People really love getting personalized swag at events as we learned at our Cisco event.

If you have an event you would like to have us monogram items at and you really want to have the most popular booth there, we’d love to work with you! Please take a look at our event page for more information and then give us a call or text us at 833 465 9311.

Blog, Corporate Gifts, Holiday Gifts, Liquor Bottle Engraving, Unique Gifts, Whiskey Bottle Engraving

Engraved Whiskey Bottles Popular Corporate Gifts

January 1, 2018 By Desiree Colonna

Engraved whiskey bottles are very popular corporate gifts, especially during the holidays. You know you’ve really been good when someone gives you a gift like that!

This season, we had two corporate clients work with us to create engraved whiskey bottles using our new sandblasting and hand engraving services.

One client, who works for Merrill Lynch, wanted to give her boss an amazing gift this holiday season. She contacted us and asked us to help her find a engraved whiskey bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue on which she wanted add his name.

She didn’t want calligraphy, she wanted an actual block font. We were able to find another company to partner with to sandblast the exact font she wanted on the bottle.

The engraved whiskey bottles we create really impress clients. Sometimes they don’t even drink what is inside because they love the look of the bottle so much. A lot of our engraved whiskey bottles are still sitting on top of the bar in a prominent place, never opened.

Another client wanted an engraved whiskey bottle for her father-in-law. Although the top was round, we were able to fit her message perfectly around the perimeter using our hand engraving techniques. We can engrave almost any glass surface with our dental drill and it doesn’t hurt the glass or, most importantly, contents inside!

Another engraving technique we use is to completely remove the label and recreate it with sandblasting for a very unique look. We can really personalize these by adding the “name” of the person to the label itself. Here are some examples below.

We engrave bottles all year long for birthdays, anniversaries as well as private and corporate events. (If you are looking for something other than whiskey, we engrave wine bottles too.) Contact us directly at 833 465 9311 to order your special gift today!

Blog, Fragrance Bottle Engraving, Glass Engraving, Hand Engraving, Holiday Gifts, In-Store Engraving, Perfume Bottle Engraving, Unique Gifts

Holiday Gift Engraving at Hermés in New York Was A Great Honor

December 20, 2017 By Desiree Colonna

Holiday gift engraving at Hermés was in full swing a few weeks ago when Desiree Colonna, our CEO, was flown from Atlanta to New York’s Hermés store on Madison Avenue to engrave fragrances for guests. It was a great honor for her because she was one of very few fragrance engravers in the world to be flown into the Hermés New York location. They only hire engravers two or three times a year.

Here is a video of our “office” at Hermés:

Engraving Fragrances for Hermes in New York City from Desiree Colonna on Vimeo.

Desiree spent the day engraving at no charge for all guests who purchased fragrance gifts. The engraving was very popular and clients were very happy to have their fragrance purchases personalized in such a unique way.

Desiree took a selfie from the street her first night. New York is the most beautiful city during the holidays!

The Hermés store does not disappoint in sheer size. It is literally five floors of amazing luxury items including china, footwear, jewelry and their elusive Birkin and Kelly bags. They even have a section devoted to their signature equestrian goods.

The highlight of the trip was when Brian, one of the top salesmen, allowed her to experience a Birkin bag presentation on a break from the holiday gift engraving. Not many people are even allowed to see the $10,000 and up Birkin bags without first being vetted by the salespeople. These bags go as high at$89,000 and are very hard to find. The salesman, Brian, took her behind the scenes to see the bag in real life.

The Birkin bag didn’t disappoint with its supple Italian leather and unique style. This was below is in a color called Tomato Red.

After the presentation, it was back to work. Desiree engraved many bottles for guests including the ones below.

Twilly d’Hermés is their newest and most popular fragrance. It even has their signature scarf around the top of the bottle for extra style and perfect branding!

The holiday gift engraving event was very successful. The store management couldn’t believe how quickly Desiree engraved the bottles without layout or lines stating she was the “fastest engraver they ever had in the store!” They loved the beautiful calligraphy engraving on the bottles and are looking forward to inviting her back again for future holiday gift engraving events.

To top it all off, Mother Nature decided to throw some snow on the scene for a few hours making it the perfect holiday gift engraving experience for all the shoppers.

Desiree flew back to Atlanta that same night enjoying the view from the plane.

If you are looking for on-site gift engraving, we’d love to work with you. Please contact us directly at 833 465 9311 for your next fragrance engraving event. Our engravers travel all over the world and are ready to make your client’s engraving experience extra special!