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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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Branding, Personal

Letter to the New Creative Business Owner

  Dear New Business Owner, Are you tired? Excited? Frusterated? Lost? Consistently changing your mind? I’VE BEEN THERE! Every business owner starts somewhere right and you aren’t alone. At all. I started my business shortly after I got married in 2010. I actually started off filming weddings as my background is in motion graphics and […]

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Branding

Facebook Live Q&A

Happy Friday! And congrats to Emily Peters for winning the gift box for one lucky newsletter subscriber!   Today the first R&I Newsletter went out and I can’t wait for the August one. I shared some big news in the newsletter that I’ll now share with you all! I will be hosting a Facebook Live […]

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The Ribbon & Ink Newsletter

I finally have a newsletter and the first edition launches THIS Friday! I am so so excited! I would love for you to sign up by clicking here. Each month I will send an R&I Newsletter to readers updating them with the latest launches, wedding brands, giveaways, webinars, workshops, and more! Readers will get first […]

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Branding

Full Branding Recap | All Grand Events

About a month ago I launched the new brand for All Grand Events, a floral and event design studio in Michigan. Jamie and Emily are the sweetest and were so great to work with. They were kind enough to answer a few questions about their experience working with me and I wanted to share. Thanks […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch | Joy Michelle Photography

This has got to be one of my top three brands I’ve ever created. It’s elegant, romantic, and timeless. It is so so pretty and Joy did a GREAT job collaborating with me to make everything so picture perfect. Let me tell you about Joy: She is so sweet, beautiful, and talented. She is an […]

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Pastel Blue Countryside Styled Shoot

When my current client, Elizabeth of Elizabeth Moore Photography ,approached me to contribute a wedding brand and invitation suite to a countryside styled shoot she was planning I was totally on board! Lizzie sent me her initial Pinterest board full of creams and pastel pinks and blues. After viewing her board I created my own […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch | Ashley Peterson Photography

I’ve had the privilege of working with Ash of Ashley Peterson Photography before. I did her initial branding and ProPhoto site a few years ago so when she came to me wanting to get a brand new Showit5 site and with a little brand sprucing up I was totally on board! I don’t typically do […]

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Brand Coaching

Now Offering Brand Coaching Sessions

I have been thinking of doing this for a long time and now the day has come! I am now offering brand coaching sessions for small creative businesses. This is a service I currently do with all of my full branding clients as part of their all inclusive branding package,  but I now will work […]

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Brand Coaching, Branding

Ideal Client | Christina Carroll Photography

In preparing to work with Christina Carroll Photography this August I recently had her branding session over Skype. We discussed many things as I do with all my full branding clients including her ideal client and niche. These two things are KEY y’all in creating a solid visual brand. How can you sell to someone […]

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Wedding Branding

Styled Shoot | Home is Wherever I’m With You

This past March I participated in a beautiful soft blue and green styled shoot for one of my former clients, The Cannons Photography. Courtney wanted to do a very “homey” shoot using a soft romantic color palette and she created a wall with frame art to look as if the couple was hanging out at […]

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