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Ribbon & Ink is a full service branding studio that works with small creative businesses to create brands with strategy and beautiful, purposeful content-driven websites to go with them. 

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Now Offering Showit Website Customization

Hi friends! This is a quick post to let you know that I am now offering Showit website customization for my designs! Simply purchase the theme you want in my shop and then purchase the add-on option to have me customize your site with your images, text, fonts, and colors. Any design changes including adding […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for California Wedding Planner Detailed Touch Events

I am so excited today for the brand launch for California wedding planner Detailed Touch Events! Hailey is a full branding wedding business client of mine that I have been working with relentlessly on to create a super romantic pink and gold brand and site. She has a beautiful fine art style and a lovely […]

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Wedding Branding

Wedding Logo for Spring Wedding at Walkersville Overlook

I love creating custom wedding logos and brands for engaged couples. It’s so fun to start with a Pinterest board and then see a wedding brand come to life! What is a wedding brand? Well, it’s a group of cohesive visuals that include a logo, monogram logos, alternate logos, patterns, fonts, and colors that work […]

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Brand Launch for New Jersey Wedding Photographer Lauren Kearns

Happy launch day to my full branding wedding photographer client Lauren Kearns!!! Lauren is a Central New Jersey classic wedding photographer who has stunning timeless images. Lauren wanted to create a bold, yet romantic brand and incorporate a deep cranberry. Lauren was one of my January branding clients and I am so excited to wrap […]

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Wedding Branding

Custom Wedding Brand and Invitation Suite for a Summer Massachusetts Wedding

This past summer I worked with Massachusetts wedding planner, Mollie Marrocco, with one of her summer couples to create a custom wedding brand and logo and invitation suite. It was amazing and I recently received the beautiful images from their big day from wedding photographer Shannon Grant. But before I show you the pretty pics […]

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Branding

Collateral Brand Design for New Jersey Wedding Photographer Lauren Kearns

I’m so excited for the brand launch coming next week for New Jersey wedding photographer Lauren Kearns.  With all of my full branding wedding business clients I create their collateral brand design. This includes a stationery suite and social media templates. Having this collateral design really makes the whole branding experience complete in my opinion. […]

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I have been working with my full branding wedding photographer client, Lauren Kearns, for the last month and her new brand is almost done! Lauren is a New Jersey wedding photographer with a timeless, classic style. I mean many of her clients ride horse drawn carriages to their receptions. Talk about class! I wanted to share my progress with Lauren so far so you can see how it all started.  From our initial conversation I knew Lauren wanted a bold, but romantic brand similar to the infamous Justin & Mary. It took a few stabs to create the perfect ideal client for her and color scheme but I finally nailed it. Next I created several initial logo concepts for her:

Branding

Brand Board for New Jersey Wedding Photographer Lauren Kearns

I have been busy doing full branding for wedding photographer Lauren Kearns for the last month and her new brand is almost done! Lauren is a New Jersey wedding photographer with a timeless, classic style. I mean many of her clients ride horse drawn carriages to their receptions. Talk about class! I wanted to share my progress with Lauren […]

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Business, Tips

The New Business Dilemma | Should I Invest in Full Branding or Not?

I primarily do full branding for wedding businesses and work with women who have been in their industry for years, but every now and then I get an inquiry from someone who is just starting their business and they often ask this: should I invest in full branding?  That’s a tough question! Branding is tough, time-consuming, […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for Maryland Wedding Planner TreBella Events

The past few weeks have been crazy with the holidays and launches for two full branding wedding planner clients! I’m so excited to share with you the new brand design for Maryland wedding planner TreBella Events. Shawn came to me in serious need of a rebrand as her brand had not been updated in nine […]

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New Showit Website Theme | Presley Blake

Happy New Year! Today I am releasing the Presley Blake Showit website theme in my shop! It is one of several website templates I have created for small creative businesses. It features beautiful images from Virginia wedding photographer, Heather Chipps Photography. You need a Showit account to be able to use this theme. It is […]

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