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This was my first attempt at a ranger style belt. My wife suggested tooling some roses on it, and I wanted to add a little bling so I buckstitched some silver mylar along the border. This is how it turned out. You can visit my business page on facebook to view other photos of my work. The link is http://www.facebook.com/DeVilbissLeather . I don't have a website at the moment, but one is in the works. Thanks for viewing, Sam

The barbed wire stamps I have are from Tandy. I have looked into some other ones to try out as well. Sam

Thank you very much McJeep. As for the barbwire, I start by determining the dimensions of the border I intend to create. Then on a scrap piece of leather I stamp a few of the barbwire impressions and measure them against the border I will be stamping on my project to see how many will fit, for example in a 4 inch line. I then adjust the border for my project to fit (to the nearest number of barbwire impressions) required to reach from corner to corner. Keep in mind to include the length of the corner barbwire stamps when determining the length of your border, and remeber to slightly overlap each impression as you are stamping. Then I use my stylus and a ruler or straight edge to make a very light line along where I will be stamping my border and just follow the line. This technique works very well with any of the many border stamps. I hope this helps, Sam

Thank you Double C. Thanks Chancey77, I love the double loop stitch too, and I like lacing it on any project I can. I haven't tried the triple loop stitch yet, but i can't wait to try it.

This is a clutch purse I made for my sister-in-law. She wanted hot pink roses with a black background and a little bit of barb wire. So here is what she got. The black background really makes the pink roses pop out.