Floral Card Wallet

[Bob Blea]

This was a small card holder I started near the beginning of this year.  It was mainly to test dyeing techniques that I was going to use in a custom order I had for a large 8x11 notebook.  I liked how the dyed flower came out but I never finished this up until just recently.  I finally added the back pocket and stitched it all up and posted it to my Etsy site.  Minimal card wallets don't get much more minimal than this!  I like how it turned out and I definitely need to be using more color with my carvings.

[vegansurfer]

You are very talented. It's beautiful!

[Bob Blea]

8 minutes ago, vegansurfer said:

You are very talented. It's beautiful!

Thank you very much!

[Rohn]

Very nicely done.

[battlemunky]

I am really digging the lined pear shader for the whole piece, I think that extra texture looks great.

[ByNelson]

I like it a lot, good work  

[Bob Blea]

Thanks all!

[thefanninator]

Nice work Bob. I like that medium brown on the back. Did you dye it? Can you run your stitching groove before you dye?

[Bob Blea]

14 hours ago, thefanninator said:

Nice work Bob. I like that medium brown on the back. Did you dye it? Can you run your stitching groove before you dye?

Thanks for the compliment and your right it would have looked better to make the stitching groove and then color the leather.  In this case it's just an antique on leather with no resist, but I could have easily saved the antique step until after it was assembled and I had made the groove.  That would have made a better overall finish.

[Leebroox]

I love how clean the tooling is.  I tried using the antique gel on a couple of projects and it did not work for me the same way as it did here. Mine became really dark all over. I like the natural look with the shadow effect caused by the antiquing and tooling.  Well done!