Elevate Your Event with Live Calligraphy & Engraving

On-Site Services & Custom Personalizations

Enhance and elevate your event and brand activation with live calligraphy, engraving, foiling, and wood burning with Created by Queena all throughout Orange County and Los Angeles. Live events offer a personal client experience that significantly increases brand awareness and fosters unforgettable moments perfect for sharing on social media. By incorporating these artistic elements, you not only elevate the overall atmosphere of your occasion but also create lasting impressions that resonate with your audience.

Engraving Brand Activations

When you are looking for something a little more permanent than just pen and ink calligraphy, upgrade your services to custom hand engraving and permanent etching. Glass, stone, metals, and selected plastics can be hand engraved on-site with an elegant and quiet micro-drill.

Hand engraving provides a luxurious experience and permanent keepsake for all your guests. The etching process is quick, which makes it the perfect on-site service for clients. Engravings on certain materials can be filled in with a pop of gold or silver finishes.

Commonly engraved materials include:

  • Wine and Liquor Bottles

  • Fragrances

  • Candles

  • Metal Tumblers

  • Cosmetics

A glass message bottle with white handwritten text that reads, 'Tell the old friends I miss you *', placed on a black fabric surface alongside two bundles of dried flowers.
Person holding a glass of water above row of empty champagne glasses at a party or event.
A hand holding a personalized Miss Dior perfume bottle with a silver bow and engraved message for Mrs. Vanderwy on June 13, 2025, against a white marble background.
A hand with blue nail polish holding a bottle of Teatree Special Mylenol shampoo outdoors, with trees, a bench, and people in the background.
Two green wine glasses with 'Christmas 2024' etched on them, placed on a wooden table with a large white ceramic vase and a plant in the background.
A red box of Air Brush Flawless Finish Micro Powder with a reflective compact mirror placed in front of it. The mirror has floral designs etched onto its surface and reflects the person's hand holding a smartphone. The background is a black fabric surface.
Black mugs with hockey mascot logo and personalized names and messages, placed on a table in a display setting.

Freehand Hot Foiling

Heat foiling - also known as hot foiling or gold foiling - has been taking the event space by storm. Using a small portable heat tool to write, the heat transfer is permanent. Your guests will patiently await at the “foil reveal”, where they can see the foil gentled peeled away to unveil the beautiful lettering on their item!

These foiled items provide an elegant and luxurious keepsake for all your guests.

Commonly foiled materials include:

  • Leather products - luggage tags, notebooks, keychains etc.

  • Satin ribbons

  • Some plastics!

Black Moleskine notebook hot foiled with silver
Five bottles of Freixenet sparkling wine with celebration labels for Valentine's Day, a birthday, and casual greetings, displayed on a table.
surfboards with names in calligraphy

On-Site Calligraphy & Lettering

Calligraphy can take your items from ordinary to extraordinary within minutes. Personalizations make guests feel special, valued, and cherished for a lifetime. Calligraphy activations provide a highly emotional experience. Even a simple greeting card or permanently hand-painted product can make a huge impact. Through flourishes and dreamy text, calligraphy is a beautiful and delicate art form that can truly surprise clients, partners, friends and family members.

Miss Dior perfume bottle painting with flowers in a heart shape
A hand holding a round perfume bottle with red floral designs, set against a background of green pine branches.

Painting and Illustrations

Leather items, tags, tote bags, fragrance bottles, ornaments and much more can be hand painted at your event to elevate your client’s brand experience. We can create a monogram lettering or classic designs and imagery for your event that clients can select from. There is something about painting that guests are truly in awe to see these hand-painted illustrations come to life before their eyes.

Calligraphy on every surface you can dream of…