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  1. Grey Drakkon
    So here's the playing card suit coasters in all their wobbly glory! I think it's pretty easy to tell which one I started with and which one I ended on, my stamping made progress as I developed a bit of technique. I loathe the number four, so I made a fifth coaster with all the suits on it, and managed to make a horrible looking club, but meh. The big version of the club turned out nicely so I'll take it. These were all carved/stamped on pre-dyed chestnut veg tanned scraps, it took some doing to get five coasters somewhat close to the same thickness. Several coats of watered down resolene went on them, and the edges were burnished (badly) with a felt wheel with my dremel knock-off. Looks better than when I started in any case.
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    Apply heat only if you want to stiffen the leather. I use a hairdryer on warm to gently heat my masks while forming them so they'll hold their shape. I've heard of people using an oven on a low temperature to do the same, but again, do that only if you want a stiff form. If you want to speed up drying time having a good air current in the room the leather in is a good idea. I wouldn't go so far as to put a fan directly on the leather since that would likely make it dry unevenly, but having the damp air pushed away from the leather probably isn't a bad idea.
  3. Grey Drakkon
    ::cough:: Her. And fantastic job! That will look great stained and on a piece. Hmm...Now you have to come up with four more the same size so you can make a cube! Let's see, there's the egg and the Queen, a chestburster and...Host body? Hop to it! ;D
  4. Grey Drakkon
    DoubleC, I had years to get it hammered into my head when in art classes, and when learning chinese calliraphy, and when mixing glazes for ceramics, and hell, when baking in the kitchen. Be aware at all times where the open container is, because you WILL spill it across essential items, or at the very least end up dunking your clothes in it. Didn't stick with me the other night though!
  5. Grey Drakkon
    I left out the bit where I knew it's hand stitched, but in effect that's what he's doing, making one "fabric" move at a different rate from the other.
  6. Grey Drakkon

    Happy Winter Solstice for those in the Northern hemisphere! More daylight from here on out!

    1. Noll9173

      Noll9173

      TY and a blessed Yule to you as well

    2. leatherwytch

      leatherwytch

      May you have a cool Yule and a great holiday...yay more sun.

    3. Grey Drakkon

      Grey Drakkon

      One of my chickens decided to celebrate the longer daylight by laying again after her molt! ...On the day it snowed. Nutty bird.

  7. Grey Drakkon
    Actually this is a classic case of "feed puckering" http://www.amefird.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Minimizing-Seam-Puckering-2-5-10.pdf Scroll down until you see the photo next the explanation, and you can see that what likely happened is that the zipper fabric was being sewn "faster" than the leather. I bet if you glue it down after pulling it tight you'll see a huge difference.
  8. Grey Drakkon
    Is it vegetable tanned leather? If so, when you case it out you could shape it by wrapping it around your wrist and gently heating it with a hair dryer. As it dries, it will stick in that shape so it will be more of an oval than a circle.
  9. Grey Drakkon
    Hey that works! Doesn't look bad at all.
  10. Grey Drakkon
    Had already learned that lesson with paint, put the lid back on and tightly!
  11. Grey Drakkon
    What I learned last night is that when using a stitching pony, you want to make sure you have nothing to you on the left and right. Especially not a full glass of water, so when you give the strings an outward tug you punch your glass onto a bunch of papers. Found out that this takes a lot of time to clean up that you could have been stitching. -_-
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    Hammering the stitches compresses them so they lay in the groove of the leather, essentially doing what you want without weakening the leather by cutting deeper into it.
  13. Grey Drakkon
    I know some people go over their stitching and lightly hammer them flat, have you tried that?
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    Thanks for the tips! I did dunk them in water, but they did seem to dry out fairly quick so I had to repeat that a few times, maybe soaking is what's called for. Do you just keep them under until air stops coming out of them? I did buy some resolene so I hope that works well as a finish for these. They were pre-dyed chestnut and the color doesn't rub off, but I don't want them to darken in splotches every time a glass sweats on them.
  15. Grey Drakkon
    Oh now that's just awesome. Next up: facehugger. (personally, I find those far more terrifying than the adult xenomorph)
  16. Grey Drakkon

    Football

    Grey Drakkon replied to Rocksocks's topic in Art

    That's not a flaw, that's an "extra difficulty" football! ;D Looks super neat!
  17. Grey Drakkon
    Got the last three done tonight. Now to let them dry, put a finish on them, and maybe make a carrier for them.
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    I know how that goes. In my thread about the coin purse I found out that my phone had taken horribly fuzzy pics (which looked good as thumbnails) so last night I dig out my real camera, take some nice pics, go to plug it in to the computer...And it died. Then my internet died. Then I shut off the friggin' computer and pounded some leather!
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    Pity about the blur because I'd love to get a close up look at those!
  20. Grey Drakkon
    Looks beautiful and soft!
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    I'm a beginner stamper as well, so these were ideal to play around with. I have a bag of thick scrap leather so I just cut some circles out of good looking sections, played around with a cased out scrap to get the pattern I wanted, and just pounded away after carving out the center shape. If I totally bomb one, no big deal, it still works as a coaster. ;D I found out that this nice thick leather accepts stamps REALLY well, so much so that using a scrap of it as a test marker is a bad idea if I'm going to try stamping on a thinner leather. (Yep, I was working on a third piece while I was working on these, because short attention span YAY) I'm thinking of finishing up the next two suits, and because I hate the number four, make a fifth coaster with a basketweave pattern on it or something. Or maybe I should try carving out a poker hand of cards? Oh, or maybe a divided center with all four suits on it done smaller!
  22. Grey Drakkon
    Ok so they're not even dry, but I got excited and wanted to share. This is a christmas gift (yes I know, running late) and I got the idea for coasters decorated with the card suits. Not perfect, but not too shabby so far! Got the other two symbols car ed, but I'm making myself go to bed before I get carried away.
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    A warning about sharpies: they aren't always light fast. Saw a big discussion with framers on how they've seen a lot of stuff over the years that was signed with a sharpie only for it to fade horribly when exposed to light over time.
  24. Grey Drakkon
    "Hey no biggie, just banged out something that most people would go bonkers for. Go ahead and weep with envy."
  25. Grey Drakkon
    If it's a silver background, have you thought about using silver leaf? You would stamp as normal, dye the cross red and not worry about any bleed over onto the background, and then paint the background with sizing, let it get tacky and lay on the silver leaf. It works great on leather, made a mask completely covered in it: http://ranasp.deviantart.com/art/Complete-Silver-Dragon-Mask-5411318
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