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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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1 Hour Design Challenge, Branding

One Hour Design Challenge: Cadence Donahue

I am loving this new blog series I created to showcase made up wedding vendor logos and websites. The One Hour Design Challenge is to show how you all how I start with one inspirational image then create a logo and website from it. I often get downtime while waiting for feedback from my own […]

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Branding

Full Branding Follow Up with Amy Ekren Photography

I always like to follow up with my full branding wedding vendor clients soon after working with me to see how people have received their new brands and get feedback. I recently followed up with Minnesota wedding photographer Amy Ekren to ask her a few questions post launch and here is what she said. How […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for Minnesota Wedding Photographer Amy Ekren Photography

Happy Wednesday friends! It feels so good to blog! I was a champ at blogging until baby two came four months ago. Haha! Tis a season for everything. I’m so happy to share the brand launch for my full branding wedding photographer client Amy Ekren Photography. Amy is a Minnesota wedding and lifestyle photographer who […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for Virginia Wedding Photographer Heather Chipps Photography

Y’all. I feel like I can say y’all because my full branding wedding photographer, Heather Townsend, client lives in Southern Virginia. This is one of my top fave favorite brand identities I have ever created. It’s not pink, it has custom calligraphy and illustration by Script & Vine, and uses french blue. I feel like […]

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Brand Coaching

Brand Coaching Session with Heather Chipps Photography

It is t-minus days until the arrival of Baby Durski #2, but that doesn’t mean I’m done workin’! I’ve been busy cranking out a bunch of wedding brands, invites, and finishing up sites for full branding clients. I am blessed to have four full branding clients lined up for after Baby D arrives and the […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for Colorado Wedding Photographer Suzanne Nevill Photography

I had a great time working with my full branding wedding photographer client Suzanne Nevill. Suzanne actually recently rebranded, but felt it wasn’t truly representative of her or her ideal client. Suzanne reached out to me loving the fact that I do an in-depth brand coaching session to help clients determine their ideal client, niche, […]

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Brand Coaching

Brand Coaching Session with Colorado Mountain Wedding Photographer Suzanne Nevill

My latest full branding for wedding vendors client is Colorado mountain and elopement wedding photographer Suzanne Nevill Photography. I’ve been working with Suzanne over the last few weeks to develop a new brand and Showit5 site for her and it’s been fun and different! I’ve never really worked on an oudoorsy brand, if you will, […]

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Branding

Business Stationery Suite for New York Wedding Photographer Nicole Detone

One of the many things I love about my full branding for creatives experience is printing their stationery suite I design. For every client I design business cards, a note card with envelope and liner, and either a “meet me” doc and “welcome doc” OR a customized welcome magazine made from a template I created. […]

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Branding

Ideal Client & Mood Board for Virginia Paperie The Dandelion Patch

I love working on full branding for wedding photographers and planners, but it’s always nice to have a little change. Currently I’m working with owner Heidi Kallett of The Dandelion Patch, a Virginia luxe wedding paperie. Heidi has been in the wedding invitation business since 1994 and has a cute storefront space in Tyson’s Corner, […]

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Premade Logo Kit

Semi Custom Brand Kit for Small Creative Businesses | Everly Winslow

Happy weekend! I am excited to share the latest semi custom brand kit for creative small businesses: Everly Winslow. The premade kit was created with the fine art wedding photographer in mind and currently uses a color palette of red, green, peach, pink, and cream. The kit will only be sold once and will be […]

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