A notebook cover for my daughter

[RockRash]

I made this for her birthday coming up. I started doing lether work a few months ago when I needed a knife sheath and a hunting pouch for my flintlock. A few weeks and about $600 in tools and leather ( having a tandy store 5 minutes from my work is dangerous lol). This is my 3rd tooled project and I'm happy how it turned out. 

 

[BigBore]

Very nice work!

[PastorBob]

You are off to a great start and welcome to the forum from SW Missouri.  Glad you showed us your work. It is fantastic.  I am sure your daughter will love the notebook cover.  Top notch!  I love the pattern on the back as well as the floral design on the front.

[Hags]

Very nice! A local Tandy shop got me hooked as well. Gee, that's kinda expensive ain't it.. well, what if I knock 30% off for you? Good, now you'll need.................

[chuck123wapati]

man that is awesome work!! Took me by surprise my dads initials lol.

[DwightT]

That is stunning.  Beautiful tooling and good selection of colors. And your stitching and edge work are marvelous.   Good job.

    /dwight

[RockRash]

Thank you all for the kind words. You guys on this forum have helped me a lot. I've spent hours reading old posts here to try and improve. I wish I would have discovered this hobby years ago. I'm going to be making a few more of these for family gifts, I'm thinking about adding a snap closure to my pattern. I haven't messed with setting snaps or rivets yet so that will be fun. Thanks again! 

[Burkhardt]

Looks very good but I have to ask what in the world did you use on the back for the design? I can tell it's stamped 4 times(?) but what stamp is the question?

[RockRash]

53 minutes ago, Burkhardt said:

Looks very good but I have to ask what in the world did you use on the back for the design? I can tell it's stamped 4 times(?) but what stamp is the question?

It's a pattern I saw on makers leather supplies YouTube channel. I really liked it and I intend to use it again on the back of a bible cover I'm making for my mom for mother's day. The 2 stamps are Barry King seashell fillers both large and small. The stamps are spendy but I had money sitting in my PayPal so I figured this was as good a time as any to spend it.

I cut a dimond pattern with the swivle knife and used the stamps on the corners of the diamonds. I didn't experiment first I intended for the dimond pattern to be more visible but I made them to small. I do like how it turned out though but next time I'll make the diamonds a quarter inch larger.  You can see it better before I used the antique.

[RockRash]

I'm having issues resizing the pictures to post. Sorry for the poor quality I'm having to screen shot the actual picture to post them. I need to figure out how to do it properly. 

[DwightT]

Personally I think they turned out fantastic.  I don't see a need to resize the diamonds.  I don't have that particular stamp, but I'm going to have to play around with the idea with the stamps that I do have.

    /dwight

[ArkieNewbie]

Very nice!

[Burkhardt]

On 4/26/2023 at 1:30 AM, RockRash said:

It's a pattern I saw on makers leather supplies YouTube channel. I really liked it and I intend to use it again on the back of a bible cover I'm making for my mom for mother's day. The 2 stamps are Barry King seashell fillers both large and small. The stamps are spendy but I had money sitting in my PayPal so I figured this was as good a time as any to spend it.

I cut a dimond pattern with the swivle knife and used the stamps on the corners of the diamonds. I didn't experiment first I intended for the dimond pattern to be more visible but I made them to small. I do like how it turned out though but next time I'll make the diamonds a quarter inch larger.  You can see it better before I used the antique.

Thanks, I've never seen a stamp that is that tight of a V vs being more rounded at the bottom.

[Fraulein]

Very, very impressive work, especially for only a few months in! May I suggest incorporating a pen loop on the next ones? I just love adding that extra little detail to my notebooks.