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Hot Foil Stamping and Calligraphy Kick Off Three Superbowl Events in Atlanta

February 3, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Hot foil stamping and calligraphy were our featured activations at the Zac Brown concert kicking off the Superbowl celebrations in Atlanta. Guests absolutely loved seeing their monograms come to life with hot foil on the leather items. The event was held at the Tabernacle in Midtown.

The concert was sponsored by our partners at Pandora Radio (Pandora Live), Ashley HomeStore and Brita Water. This was the second Pandora Live concert we were invited to emboss leather items. The last concert was in Nashville for Jason Aldean.

This concert was the first of three Superbowl events we were invited to participate in for three different marketing companies and their clients. We were also invited to embroider hats for two separate company Superbowl events. We are the only event artist agency in the country asked to perform four independent activations at three separate events for five major corporations during the Superbowl in Atlanta!

Our hot foil stamping and calligraphy activations were the highlight of the event. We were told by the sponsors this was the best Pandora Live event ever and a lot had to do with the gifts we personalized for all the guests.

Our hot foil embossing was featured in the Ashley Home Store Lounge where we stamped leather koozies created exclusively for the Zac Brown Concert.

We had 5 embossers stamping over 500 koozies for guests during 4 hours.

Upstairs, our team members added calligraphy to water bottles provided by Brita Water. Our calligraphers added names and favorite phrases to the bottles including artwork from flowers and footballs.

We used oil-based Sharpies to draw beautiful calligraphy on the acrylic water bottles supplied by Brita water.

Our team of three calligraphers added their special touch to over 350 water bottles.

Our team had a wonderful night working with our partners and their guests. The music flowed all night and we were even able to watch the concert live from a video monitor set up in the basement where we were embossing as well as upstairs.

We want to thank our partners and clients for inviting us to be part of this special Superbowl event. We had the most team members at this event than any in our three year history. Everything went smoothly thanks to the organization of our team. All in all, it was a beautiful evening and a wonderful event in Atlanta.

If you have an event coming up and you’d like to make your guests feel special, please consider working with us. You can contact us on this page or call us directly at 833 465 9311. We’d love to make your next event a touchdown with extra points!

Blog, Laser Cutting, Laser Engraving

Laser Engraving, Cutting and Marking Now Available!

January 30, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Laser engraving, cutting and marking are now available in our studio! We’re very excited to announce our new tool, a laser engraving machine. We can now engrave, cut and mark all types of substrates including acrylic, wood, metal and ceramic. We can take your custom design, logo or even a drawing to a whole new level!

After many requests from our clients to make our calligraphy three dimensional, we finally took the plunge and bought a Glowforge laser engraving machine for our studio. With 21 years of web and computer design experience, this laser engraver made a lot of sense to take our skillset to a whole new level. Plus, we were getting a lot of calls for items made of acrylic, wood, ceramic and metal which we couldn’t laser engrave, cut or mark until now. We can even engrave a photograph from your phone onto acrylic, metal or wood!

Here are some of the things we can create:

Awards
Cake Toppers
Custom Leather Notebooks
Dog Tags
Jewelry
Wood Cutting Boards
Acrylic Table Numbers
Acrylic Menus
Metal Business Cards
Acrylic Business Cards
Photo Gifts in Wood, Acrylic or Metal
Corporate Logos on Almost Anything
Signs
Machine Parts
Paper, Metal, Vinyl or Felt
Decals and Stickers
iPhone and iPad Cases and Backs
MacBook Air Design

Glowforge can cut wood, fabric, leather, paper, cardboard, Plexiglas (acrylic), Delrin (acetal), mylar, rubber, Corian, foods, and more.

Glowforge can also engrave all of the above plus glass, coated metal, marble, anodized aluminum, titanium, some phones, tablets, and laptops, and more. For items we can’t laser engrave like delicate watches or cylindrical items like wine or liquor bottles, we offer hand engraving.

We can cut the smallest, most intricate designs out of acrylic, draftwood, hardwood, veneer and more. We can also engrave most any design into the same materials including marking metal. We are fascinated with how our laser can cut to the accuracy of the width of a human hair.

These are just a few examples of what we have created so far, but there will be so much more. We will be able to add your logo and most any custom design to items using our laser etching technique. This laser engraving tool expands our opportunities for our business and capabilities to help business owners and personal clients alike

If you’re interested in learning more about our laser engraving, cutting or marking services, please contact us at 833 465 9311 for an initial consultation. We’d love to bring your next idea to life in living three dimension!

Blog, Engraved and Embossed Leather, Leather Monogramming, Live Embossing Events, Live Monogramming Events, On-Site Events

Event Embossing with Preferred Hotels and Resorts

January 21, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Event embossing is an annual Atlanta event sponsored by Preferred Hotels and Resorts for their clients and guests. We were honored to be asked to join the festivities by providing leather goods and embossing services at the event. The event embossing was held at a beautifully restored venue called The Estate in Buckhead.

A local designer supplied a variety of leather goods we then added customer’s initials and monograms to in gold and silver foil live at the event.

Guests loved the experience of seeing their monograms hand stamped right in front of them.

The designer supplied wine carriers, passport covers in several colors and luggage tags. The leather is sourced from Spain as well as the craftsmanship and production. These luxury leather items make our event embossing clients and guests feel very special. They know they are getting something hand made and high quality when they hold a leather item in their hands.

Our activation doesn’t take much space. We only need a table and two chairs by an electrical outlet. Each item takes less than one minute to emboss. We can usually get 50 to 60 done per hour per embosser. We travel from Atlanta around the globe to bring our event embossing to clients who are excited to have us at their events.

If you are interested in having us emboss or paint leather in your store or at your event, please contact us at 833 465 9311 for pricing and information. Or fill out this form and we’ll contact you right away.

Blog, On-Site Events, Vape Pen Engraving

Vape Pen Engraving for Vuse Alto at RJ Reynolds Tampa Event

January 11, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Vape pen engraving is a unique service we recently provided for RJ Reynolds employees at a Vuse Alto event in Tampa, FL. We were able to engrave the delicate, smooth surface of the vape pens without any damage to the internal technology using a hand-held high speed drill.

We love when our clients ask us to do what they think is impossible. When RJ Reynolds asked if we could engrave vape pens, the answer was an immediate yes. They sent a few for us to try and they engraved like butter. You can see how easily these vape pens engrave in the video below.

We originally engraved vapes at two locations in Winston-Salem, North Carolina including their corporate headquarters. They loved the vape engraving activation so much, they invited us to engrave vape pens at their corporate event in Tampa, FL a few weeks later at the Saddlebrook Resort.

Employees loved the personalized aspect of the activation. Each pen took less than a minute to engrave, so there was no waiting around. The results were immediate and everyone love showing off their vape pens to one another at the event.

Everyone was allowed to get creative. There were almost no limits except for space. With our hand-held high speed drill, we can literally engrave almost any surface made of glass, metal or wood.

Some employees didn’t have their vape pens with them, but asked us to engrave some of their jewelry. We had no problem because we had a lot of experience engraving watches and other items. They loved it!

Once word got out, our vape engraving station was the most popular of the night. We engraved vape pens for 4 hours non-stop. These smiles made all the hard work worth every minute.

Hand engraved items are always the talk of any event. Our calligraphy engraving is something most attendees have never seen before.

On a personal note, our car, a 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe hit 100,000 miles on the way to Tampa. We’ve done almost 100 events in the past year and we are so grateful to all of the clients who trusted us with their events in 2018. This event was a great way to start 2019!

If you would like to have us engrave items at your event and aren’t sure we can do it, please call. We love a challenge! Our drill can handle almost any curved surface you can throw at us. Please contact us at 833 465 9311. If you can provide a sample, we can figure out how to do it. After all, if we figured out lightbulbs we can figure out anything! We hope to talk to you very soon.

Beer Glass Engraving, Blog, Glass Engraving, In-Store Engraving, On-Site Events

Beer Glass Engraving at Budweiser and Jim Beam’s New Copper Lager Launch Event

January 6, 2019 By Desiree Colonna

Beer glass engraving at the Copper Lager launch for Jim Beam and Budweiser was a highlight of our holiday season events. We had over 30 glass engraving events booked during December. The launch party was held in Buckhead, near downtown Atlanta.

Our beer glass engraving station was the buzz of the party. People couldn’t believe we could engrave whatever they wanted to their round beer glasses with very little equipment. We engraved the beer glasses with our hand held drill, the same drill we use to engrave wine and perfume bottles. We filled the final engraving with silver wax which gave the engraving a special glow.

We engraved over 100 beer glasses for guests at the launch which was held at Big Sky Buckhead. The glasses were pre-printed with the Budweiser logo. We added the engraving to the bottom of each glass or the side, depending on where the client wanted it.

The evening event was held on one of the coldest nights of the 2018. Everyone was stuck inside the venue, but people still had fun. Besides the bar, out engraving table was the hottest place to been seen at the event.

Our CEO, Desiree Colonna, was the beer glass engraving expert of the night and engraved all of the beer glasses by hand with her famous engraved calligraphy. Desiree likes to call it “Calligraving!” She even included some artistic designs such as holly for the hoidays and roses.

Here is a quick video of one of the glasses she engraved during the event.

A lot of people took advantage of the event to create special glasses for family and friends to give during the upcoming holidays.

Beer glass engraving is a fun event activation which gives guests a personalized gift at the end of the night. If you’re interested in having us engrave beer glasses for your next event, please contact us at 833 465 9311 or fill out this form for more information. We will get back to you right away to help you start planning your next engraving event!

Blog, Glass Engraving, Hand Engraving, In-Store Engraving, On-Site Events, Wine Bottle Engraving

Wine Bottle Engraving Events at Kroger for Penfolds

December 19, 2018 By Desiree Colonna

Wine bottle engraving events, sponsored by Penfolds Wine, were timed perfectly right before the holidays. The wine bottle engraving events at Kroger stores in Atlanta gave customers a chance to personalize last minute hostess gifts for both corporate and personal parties.

Penfolds Wine sponsored the events at the Disco Kroger in Atlanta and also other locations around the Buckhead and north suburbs. We hand engraved wine bottles with a high speed drill right after customers made their purchase. Our engraving is much faster than any machine, about one minute per bottle compared to a machine’s five minutes per bottle. Plus, customers love the hand engraved element versus just a font from a machine. We were also able to embellish the bottles with pictures of holly and flowers.

You can watch our master wine engraver, Desiree Colonna, in action below. Desiree is known as one of the Fastest Engravers in the South!

Kroger customers were so excited by the activation, one customer unexpectedly bought over 20 bottles when she saw how beautiful and unique the engraved calligraphy was on each wine bottle.

After each bottle was engraved, the engraving was filled by Desiree’s assistant, Joe, with silver or gold colored wax which makes the engraving really stand out on each wine bottle.

The wine bottle engraving events were something new for Kroger stores in Atlanta. The wine bottle engraving enabled Penfolds to sell almost double the amount of wine the night of the events. There will be more wine bottle engraving events at Kroger for Penfolds and other brands in the future due to the popularity of the event. Please check our calendar page to see where we will be engraving next.

If you are interested in having us engrave at your next event, personal or corporate, please contact us at 833 465 9311. We’d love to meet you and your guests!