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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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Business, Tips

How Often Should I Rebrand? 3 Tips for Creative Small Businesses

A very common question in the small creative business world is “how often should I rebrand?” Any business that wants to be successful needs to have a solid brand and my own full branding clients understand that. But how do you know if you have a solid brand? How do you know if you need […]

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Premade Logo Kit, Shop Item

Semi Custom Brand for Creatives | Evergreen Events

Happy weekend friends! I am happy to share the latest semi custom brand kit complete with a premade logo and brand board, business card design, note card and envelope design, and email signature. The Evergreen Events kit will only be sold ONCE and customized with your information. You don’t HAVE to be a wedding planner […]

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Wedding Branding

New Jersey Classic Wedding Brand and Bridal Shower Invitations

The wedding brand I have created for New Jersey bride Kristen has come a long way since we first started working together. Although the initial wedding logo changes quite a bit, the vibe has always been to have a clean and classic black and white wedding brand. Here is her final wedding brand board that […]

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Branding

Follow Up with Full Branding Client Nicole Detone

I am truly honored to work with all my full branding clients, or any small creative business client for that matter, because I know the amount of trust they are putting in me to help build their brands. Not only are they making a huge investment in time and money, but they are trusting me with […]

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Tips

3 Tips for Branding Your Instagram + A Free 30 Day Printable Planner!

I’ve spent the last year really trying to work on my branding for Instagram. Up until a year ago my Instagram account was full of my work and personal things and it wasn’t very thoughtful. “It was a random collection of images.” It wasn’t until I went to one of my Tuesday Together meetings where we specifically […]

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Shop Item

New Showit5 Website Design | Amanda Peyton

The new Showit5 website template for photographers, the Amanda Peyton, is available for purchase in the R&I shop! It has a current color palette of mint and black, but the colors can easily be customized to whatever you want as well as the fonts. You must have a Showit5 account to use this website design. […]

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Premade Logo Kit

Semi-Custom Brand Kit | Penelope Brady

Introducing the new semi-custom brand kit available for sale in the R&I shop. The premade logo is soft and beachy using aqua and gold tones and a romantic script font. The premade brand can be used for any small creative business, but I think it would be best for any lover of the beach who […]

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Business, Tips

3 Ways Pinterest is Changing My Business

Pinterest is changing the way I think about my small creative branding business and do things for my business. I never thought of Pinterest as a tool before, but after taking Melyssa Griffin’s “Pinfinite Growth” online course I am learning that it can be a HUGE tool if you know how to use it. Pinterest […]

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Business, Personal

New Headshots by JenS Photography

It has been a LONG time since I got new headshots. I mean I still love my old headshots by Liz Fogarty, but it was time for some new ones! I also wanted to include a lot more detail shots of things like me styling and in the zone. I gotta show I’m legit! I […]

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Branding

Follow Up With Brooke Danielle Photography

I had the pleasure of working with Northern Virginia wedding photographer Brooke Danielle Photography this past winter to create an entire new full brand. Her beautiful new brand and website is live and uses a color palette of blue, periwinkle, and peach. It’s clean, modern, and fun. I think the ability to take a client’s […]

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