Travis The Red

Hey everyone, I've made a few simple designs on leather in the past few months and everytime after I'm done the leather always curves up around the edges. Sometimes its almost like a bowl shape. I've seen on the Tandy site a video where the guy glues the leather to some card board and I was thinking that maybe that would help keeping the leather flat after I've finished, but wouldnt something like that underneath the leather defeat the purpose of my granite block? Recently I tried stretching the leather out some after I've finished and this helped to a point, but it still doesn't lay flat. I'm assuming this is a rookie mistake since I can't really find any information on this problem, so any help on this is appreciated. Thanks.

Hey everyone, I bought these celtic border stamps from tandy last week and I'm having a terrible time making my impressions. They came with a set of instructons that say to only use the stamps along a scribed or cut and beveled line only. I don't really know what this means because I've never used stamps before where I had to do anything extra to get them to work properly. If anyone can explain to me what exactly these instructions mean or just might know what im doing wrong, I'd really appreciate the help.

Thanks Storm, I didn't even know what casing was until you mentioned it and I looked it up. As for the sealer I don't have any at the moment so it completely slipped my mind, are there any particular brands you would recomend? Thanks again for the help.

Hey, I'm fairly new to leather working and I've been fooling around with some different patterns on a few pieces of scrap leather and I wanted to make a simple leather bracelet. However, the other day I wrapped a piece of it around my wrist and I noticed after a few times of doing this my patterns started to come undone. I was wondering if anyone can tell me why it's doing that and how to prevent it so when I make it won't lose its patterns after a short time. Any insight is really appreciated, thanks.