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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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Wedding Branding

Massachusetts Wedding Brand & Invitation Suite

I’ve been having a great time working with my wedding branding client Keryn via Massachusetts wedding planner Mollie Marrocco Events. Creating custom wedding logos, color palettes, and overall brands is so fun and each one is so unique. I just finished ordering the lavender wedding invite suite for Keryn and John and I can’t wait […]

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Semi Custom Brand for Creatives | Laynie Rose

I love creating premade brand kits for creatives. They are the perfect solution for new businesses with low budgets. Not only do most new creative small businesses not have the money to do a complete branding process with a pro, but they don’t have the experience to even know their style or who they want […]

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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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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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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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