Notepad Portfolio

[BlackDragon]

For my sister's birthday I put together a notepad portfolio. She's a counselor for the VA and also involved in horse therapy so I figured inlaying a horse profile would be fitting.

I used 3oz vegtan with 1.8mm binder's boards as a core, the pockets are 3oz English bridle, the inset is also 3oz vegtan and also has a binder's board core.

 

If anyone knows of Veteran or 1st Responder that can use counseling they can reach out to her https://www.adonairanchcounseling.org/

[DieselTech]

Looks real nice. Great work. Simple but elegant.

[Deanr]

Very nice. I've not seen using binder's board as a core on the insert. Did you tool around the edge before sewing?

[BlackDragon]

7 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Looks real nice. Great work. Simple but elegant.

 

3 hours ago, Deanr said:

Very nice. I've not seen using binder's board as a core on the insert. Did you tool around the edge before sewing?

Thanks!

For the inlay I used a second piece of binder's board in the shape of the horse head. I formed the inlay leather to that shape. That second binder's board raised the leather up to be just a little higher than the outer leather otherwise it would have made the horse flat. When I made the inlay I extended the leather all the way to the left, right, and top so you don't notice a seam line. For the bottom I skived the edge to minimize the seam line. Thinking about it now I should have extended the leather all the way to the bottom to save me the headache. lol

It looked something like this before covering it up. In this image the back board is .6mm but in the actual one I used 1.8mm board, just like the horse head.