Weddings!

It's been a very long time. And yes, we were slacking on the blog. BUT... we officially announce our Wedding Collection! Amazing but true. Here's a sneak peek:



Click here to see the full collection. We promise it's been worth the wait!

So Hot at ICE

Saturday proved to be about the hottest it could possibly be in June. The peak temp ended up in the mid-90's, and it was at least 85 when we started setting up at 8:45 am. ICE? Yes please!
Amazingly, despite the extreme heat, the off-ramp closures on 75/85 and the fact that Highlands Summerfest was the same weekend, we had a decent turnout! Many people braved the heat to shop the amazing vendors that participated. I was even able to take a small break and get a few things... a snappy new dog collar from The Mod Dog (which is a black and white hounds tooth pattern for my hound to wear. Ha!) and some adorable little bunnies from our tent-mate Brooke from TeddyLux.
We at Jinky Wink unveiled some new products: funky postcards, cute toddler tees, tea towels and some fun file folders. Everything will be available for purchase online super soon. Don't miss out! Sign up for our mailing list to be in the know.

The one unfortunate thing about working an event like this is that you don't get a whole lot of time to check out the other vendors, which we love to do. For a complete list of everyone that attended, click here. I know we'll be going back and seeing what we missed!
Cheers!
Tamara

It's Almost Summer...

...and while we may be slacking on the blog side of things, we are certainly not slacking elsewhere! The Indie Craft Experience is just weeks away, and we are working our tails off to make sure we have plenty of goods for all you awesome people that will be there. We are certain it will be a perfect, sunny day, so be sure to stop by and say hi!
In other insider news... brides, listen up! We have been in the planning stages of wedding invites for quite some time now, and we can't wait to unveil (Ha! No pun intended) them to you! Stay tuned... we'll keep you updated on our process. Of course, if you can't wait and need something now, we're always thrilled to work with people on custom designs!
Hopefully we'll see many of you at ICE on June 7! Until then...
Cheers!
Tamara & Ellen

Come Meet the JW Girls!

We have our first event of the season. Saturday, May 3 we'll be at the SketchWorks Art Mart from 11am til 5pm. Stop by, say hi, and check out our goods live and in person! Locale:
Sketchworks
3041 North Decatur Rd,
Decatur, GA 30079
(North Decatur Rd. between DeKalb Industrial and E. Ponce)
Hope to see you there!
Ellen & Tamara

Ice Ice, Baby!

It's amazing how Vanilla Ice can still be relevant today. Okay, perhaps not, but it's a good intro to say:
We're going to be a vendor at ICE Atlanta this summer!
We recently received news that we were accepted along with our tent-mate TeddyLux for the June 7th event at Centennial Park. Be sure to come out and meet us and enjoy a day of fun, sun and great vendors.
Cheers!
Tamara & Ellen

More Gocco

In order to get some more practice with the Gocco, I decided to design some Invitations and Thank Yous for my daughter’s first birthday. With my husband's help we were quickly able to produce some wonderful new creations. Here we are inking the screen:

After creating all the invites, we then proceeded to make the Thank Yous. We did this by using the same screen with some paper taped over the area we did not want printed:

Here are the cards drying:

And the finished product:

This whole process has been a lot of fun and I am so excited to create even more things with it. Can’t wait to start the next project!

-Ellen

Loco for Gocco!

It's been a while since our last post... but believe us, we've been busy! After months of playing around with our new Gocco, yesterday marked our first official project. For those who don't know what Gocco is, it's basically a way to silkscreen, all contained in a little machine. Check out our step by step from beginning to end!

Ellen is creating the screen. Two toxic (seriously!) lightbulbs go off and your screen is burned from a printout of your work.

The screen after it has been burned (the printout is still attached to the screen).

Using weird foamy strips, you can divide your screen for multiple colors.
On this pass we used two: red and gold.

Then you apply the ink.

We used two screens for this project, one for the top, and a second for the bottom. Here, the top portion is drying before we ink the bottom.

The finished product!

We are very excited with how this turned out, and can't wait for more projects to use with Gocco.
Insider info: We're currently working on custom wedding invites!
Cheers!
Tamara & Ellen