Models’ Search – Femme PinUps!!!

The Blac Gurlz Ink Babes are excited to announce our next Models’ Search for our upcoming series…

Femme PinUps!

Submission Period: March 5, 2010 thru April 24, 2010

We are looking for members of the LGBT community who express the feminine aspect of the spectrum and want to share it with the WORLD!!!

How do YOU express “femme”?!

Sexy? Geeky? Large & in Charge? Quiet Church-mouse? How about Naughty School Gurl or BabyGurl? Better yet, Grown & Sexy or Bombshell? You get the idea – the list is endless!

Whatever it is…Bring It!

This Model Search is open the ENTIRE LGBT COMMUNITY!!!

Blac Gurlz Ink is proud to feature REAL members from our community and we won’t ever use “professional models” to act the part. With this premise in mind, we’re sending out a call for YOU to come and REPRESENT – show us, and the world, what you’re working with!! Haha!

Here’s what we need from you:

*Name
*Phone#
*Email
*Birthdate
*2 Photos – showing us your “best” side
*1 paragraph telling us why you’d like to be a Blac Gurlz Ink Femme PinUp!

All components are required to be considered for the photo shoot.

Again, the Submission Period is: March 5, 2010 thru April 24, 2010.

Send your submissions to: bgicasting@hotmail.com or hit our website: www.blacgurlzink.com – click on the “Community” tab and complete the online form. Easy!!

We look forward to receiving your submissions and Thank You!

The Babes!!

Happy Valentine’s Day from Blac Gurlz Ink & Flirtatious-T!

Blac Gurlz Ink & Flirtatious-T

Blac Gurlz Ink and Flirtatious-T have teamed up to make this Valentine’s Day a holiday to remember.  With both of us on your side you’re sure to score plenty of kisses from your Valentine!

Everyone knows that flirting is the best way to spark a conversation and one of the quickest ways to a potential love interest’s heart.

However, if you’re not good at flirting why not send a handcrafted, couture greeting card?

In honor of Valentine’s Day 2010, Blac Gurlz Ink has created limited-edition designs to commemorate your sentiments on this special day by honoring romance and all things flirtatious. These handcrafted, couture cards are artistic and the perfect token of affection.

Small tokens of affection on Valentine’s Day can go a long way.

Valentine's Day You & Me Handcrafted Couture Greeting Card

To make this offer even sweeter, Blac Gurlz Ink and Flirtatious-T will be donating 20% of the proceeds to the New York Gay Men’s Health Crisis Center and to also show support to team “Flirtatious-T – Flirt with a Cause” who will be participating in the 2010 New York AIDS Walk being held on May 16, 2010!

It’s flirting for a cause.

When you purchase a handcrafted, couture Valentine’s Day card from Blac Gurlz Ink it’s more than just a greeting card — it’s a lifestyle!

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Valentine's Day Handcrafted Couture Greeting Card

Valentine's Day Handcrafted Couture Greeting Card

Making Our Mark in 2010!

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope you all have BIG plans for 2010 and that you tackle them with vim and vigor!

I took the last few weeks of ’09 off to reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and to set realistic goals for Blac Gurlz Ink for 2010!

It is my intent to leave a most memorable and positive mark via Blac Gurlz Ink on the World and I trust that all is in order to continue to make that happen as 2010 unfolds!

In 2009 I was fortunate to have developed some amazing partnerships, create many inspirational networks and to muster up the gumption to bring Blac Gurlz Ink into fruition.

I had so much support and I want to send a shout out to Lahle Wolfe, of About.com – Women in Business for doing a story on us.  I met Lahle via Help A Reporter Out (HARO) and she “tracked” us pretty much at our inception.

Our story: Women in Business Success Story – Blac Gurlz Ink: How an Idea for Greeting Cards Became a Successful Business, was one of the best gifts I received in 2009 — and there were a few!

I look forward to my continued relationship with many of you and to walk…if not but for a short while, with some of you, as we make our way to the lives we wish to lead.

I will be 50 in 2010 and I think that it is going to be another amazing year and so onward I go…to leave my mark — “traveling Light to travel faster” as my Granddaddy would say — haha!

Wishing you all positive abundance and wonder-filled adventure in 2010!

Making it a Great Life!

Supreme Challenger of the Status Quo!

Spring Opara
Owner
Blac Gurlz Ink
www.blacgurlzink.com
admin@blacgurlzink.com

Blac Gurlz Ink – 2009 A Year in Reveiw

Well its December 27, 2009 and as I sit in the quietness of my space I began reflecting on the year and all the amazing adventures that Ive gone on in my endeavor to achieve the goals I set for Blac Gurlz Ink.

Spring Opara, Owner Blac Gurlz Ink Greeting Cards & Gifts

From day one the support has been simply amazing as family, friends and strangers came on board to assist in propelling Blac Gurlz Ink through…again…an amazing year! And to them I offer up my most heart felt “THANK YOU”. Without their support, the achievements made would not have been possible and for this I know that I am blessed.

One of my dearest friends mentioned to me that considering the year, being grateful/thankful is all that I can be and with that said I wanted to blog about Blac Gurlz Ink’s 2009 Achievements so that all involved can see what they contributed to in the course of helping to bring this dream to fruition.

So without further ado…

Blac Gurlz Ink’s Year in Review

*Starting and operating our first year during one of the most challenging economic meltdowns since the Great Depression

*Participation in the Make Mine a Million $ Business Race (M3Race)

*Second series greeting cards, Graffiti Queers completed

The Blac Gurlz Ink Babes - Graffiti Queers Photo Shoot!

*Enrollment and completion in the Women’s Initiative Simple Steps to Success Business Intensive (Mar-Jun)

*Enrollment with the BBB

*Free Trip to New York to attend the M3Race, The First 100 Day – a symposium for the Women Business Owners

*San Francisco Pride 2009

*Monterey Pride 2009

*San Francisco Intl Gift Fair

*Butch Voices Conference – Oakland

*Sistahs Steppin Pride – East Bay Dyke March & Festival

*Castro Street Fair 2009.

Paddington Station - London

*Free trip to London to promote Blac Gurlz Ink to overseas markets via winning a contest sponsored by StartUpNation and British Airways.

*Eclipse Holiday Event

That is quite a bit of work for any business in its first year.  I am so happy in this moment and in the safety of my quietness I plan our continue…

TAKE OVER OF THE WORLD…haha! One greeting card at a time.

To all of you I send peace, prosperity and love in the coming year and I hope that you are all as excited about 2010 as I am.  Cant wait to see what the Universe has in store for me…woohoo! Im so ready for it…see you all next year!!

Spring Opara
General Partner
Blac Gurlz Ink

A Sense of Community

Can I just say that I learned alot from SF Pride and I learned it quick.  It was a wonderful event to have our “cherry popped” as Joshua said —  “Oh you gals are SF Pride virgins (as far as vending…hahaha!) so POP goes your cherry” hahaha!

I embrace my anal, Type A personality and I like to prep far in advance so that when its time to perform…I’m on point…Thank you US Air Force and Veronica C. Combs.  They taught me the discipline I now have and I don’t fret because I KNOW I can do it.  I’m so excited about all of the Pride events we will attend this year and those yet to come…woohoo! Look out world here come the Blac Gurlz Ink Babes!

The Tribe is more actively thinking of the compound…manifest ya’ll, manifest!  And I think the business needs a VW bus, the 2009 model so we can truly be the gypsies that we are.  Roaming from Pride event to Pride event…like the Grateful Dead followers…bahaha!

Amongst the Tribe there’s talk about ATV’s and the upper north forty which takes a couple of hours to navigate.  A huge main house and fields of vegetables and fruit orchards and the hiring of locals to work the field and in addition to paying them, giving them a small piece of land to garden for their families upkeep!  We are all happy doing the things we LOVE vs those viewed as necessary by society…no we’re not anarchist…quite the contrary!  We just KNOW that there are enough resources on the planet for ALL of us to thrive and we’re hell bent on sharing and thriving…yessireebubba!

See my Tribe is all about community and believes that everyone can eat and that’s what Monterey Pride means to me…sharing and supporting community by just showing up and being positive…showing up is 80% of anything we do, make being positive the remaining 20% and I think you have a winning combo, thus…Life is a piece of cake.

I was so excited at how the connection between Blac Gurlz Ink & PMC happened…we were out building community and ran into this amazing group!  I have personally placed on the Universe to be able to roll with the Pride circuit and visit all the homo’s on an annual basis…I love being queer,  gay, a freakin human who has the free will of choice and I dont care…being a lesbian amongst family around this time of year is something I thrive for.

So Im off to manifest the van, love, adventure and mucho, mucho cash, so that we can continue to be out in the energy of Pride!

Look out Monterey Pride…the Blac Gurlz Ink Babes are coming to party with you gals like it’s 1999…Prince is gay…hahaha!

The Supreme One out…fade to black