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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!

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

Unique Trade Show Swag at the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit

December 5, 2017 By Desiree Colonna

Unique trade show swag is hard to find, that is, until you call Inkwell Designers℠! We offer on site monogramming and personalization services for companies around the globe. The cool part is we can travel and create trade show swag virtually anywhere.

We recently created personalized, monogrammed leather notebooks at the Edgile trade show booth at the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit this past week in Las Vegas. The notebooks were quite a hit and created a buzz around the conference. We had a line waiting for our custom, personalized notebooks. Take a look at the video of our booth below and our CEO, Desiree Colonna, personally embossing the books. Talk about unique trade show swag!

We were invited to emboss leather notebooks at the event in a live setting for booth attendees. Here is the picture of the actual notebook we embossed. We added the monogram on the bottom right hand corner with our machines at the trade show booth.

They like to call us the “Fastest Embossers in the South” because we can emboss one book each minute. We embossed around 200 books in less than 3 hours. Here is a picture of our CEO, Desiree Colonna, working in the booth before the show opened.

We don’t take up much space and only need a few feet of trade show booth space to work our magic. The Marketing Director from Edgile was very happy with the results, especially when he saw the reaction to guests at our booth after they received their notebooks. We heard, “This is the best swag I’ve ever seen!” and “You guys really hit this one out of the park!”

All in all it was a great show. We were even treated to a beautiful sunset on the flight back to Atlanta.

If you are looking for unique trade show swag for your next event, please contact us at 833 465 9311 for a quote or click on this link for more information. We also offer on site calligraphy and engraving. We’d love to talk to you about making your next event even more memorable for your guests!

Blog, Calligraphy, Hand Painted

Hand Painted Calligraphy Makes an Atlanta Home Even More Beautiful

November 24, 2017 By Desiree Colonna

Hand painted calligraphy can breathe new life and add some interesting details into ordinary home decor. We were hired by an Atlanta homeowner to do just that Brittany found us online and asked us to come into her home and create a special saying on her fireplace mantel in calligraphy. She wanted the mantel painted in time for Thanksgiving when her family and friends were expected to join her family for a special party in her home.

Meg Mitchell, our hand lettering and chalkboard painting artist, was up for the task and very excited to start! First, she called Brittany and they had a long conversation about what Brittany wanted and what the message meant to her and her family. Meg then sketched everything out on her iPad and send Brittany proofs for her to approve. Brittany was very happy with the design. A few days later Meg went to Brittany’s home and did the work right on site.

The final results were stunning! Brittany was so happy, she hired Meg on the spot to design hand painted calligraphy on an antique table she had in her foyer. She wanted a simple “H” hand painted on to the table. Meg took the table home and presented the table, now adorned with her beautiful hand painted calligraphy, to her a few days later. The final pictures are posted below.

We loved the way this table turned out and we’re very proud of both projects.

Brittany was so happy with Meg’s work and our customer service, she posted this 5 Star Review on Google a few days later:

We are available for anyone who would like special touches of hand painted calligraphy throughout their home. (If you are an interior designer, we’d also love to work with you on your client’s projects.) Please contact us directly at 833 465 9311 to schedule your consultation.

Anniversary Gifts, Blog, Corporate Logo Stamping, Engraved and Embossed Leather

Leather Third Anniversary Gift Custom Designed by Their Dog

November 19, 2017 By Desiree Colonna

Leather third anniversary gift giving can be so doggone interesting, we never know what kind of requests we’ll get next.

A few weeks ago, we were contacted by a dog named Rufus. Rufus wanted a gift his owners could enjoy forever and something very unique. Rufus wanted his paw prints forever stamped in leather for the rest of his doggie days and beyond.

Leather is the perfect third anniversary gift because it is durable and lasting. The 3rd wedding anniversary is often when a couple is aware of their durability of their relationship. That is why a leather third anniversary gift is the traditional gift for this celebration.

Rufus wanted his leather third anniversary gift to his owners to be very special and something they could enjoy every day. We used the same process we use for our corporate logo stamping clients. We decided on a type of leather which would look best. Then one of his owners (who was already in on the gift) made a copy of his paw prints on paper which was then magically transferred into an electronic file.

We then proceeded to cut the die out of steel and magnesium using the electronic file and a laser. We also hand cut the die itself once it is completed.

The die is then used in our embossing machine and stamped onto the leather. Below you can see the dog prints debossed with no color before we add the gold foil.

Gold foil is then added and stamped onto the leather piece and the final result is stunning! The leather piece was then added to a shadowbox frame.

We were very happy to know Rufus’ gift was well received by the couple and we hope it brings them a lot of joy when they see it in their home.

If you have a custom or unique logo or design you’d like stamped into leather, contact us at 833 465 9311. We’d love to bring your creative project to life. Dogs most welcome!