stamping real leaf impressions

[CitizenKate]

My wife liked it so much she wanted to make something out of it, so it ended up being a small notebook.

Then she decided to try some of her other scrapbooking toys on leather. She ran a piece of leather through the embossing machine with an embossing plate and came up with a really nice design on the leather.

She's going to make another little book out of that one. It looks pretty neat with highlighter on it.

It's been fun to play with something competely different than what I normally do.

Clay,

Your wife has a good eye for design. I think you should turn her loose in your studio.

Kate

[Brandon]

Thank you for sharing!

Now I know what to do with that leaf I picked up moons ago.

B.

[Patrice]

We tried it too and got pretty good results. We used a little crank through embossing and die cutting press my wife has for scrapbooking called a Cuttlebug.

The cliker press call cuttlebug, can it be purchased anywhere in a hoby store? I'm asking this, because the fact i'm living in Canada migth reduce my option!

And, for the dryed leaf, did you put a green leaf between two pages of a book or did you used something else to dry the leaf?

Thank you, i might try this technique

[nomi]

Most major craft stores carry them in the states, not sure in Canada.

However if you google Cuttlebug you'll find a ton of online stores that carry the item that could probably ship to Canada.

- Noel

[CitizenKate]

And, for the dryed leaf, did you put a green leaf between two pages of a book or did you used something else to dry the leaf?

I used a fresh leaf on mine, but my mother used to dry flower petals by the method you mention.

Kate

[Hoyden]

ClayB - Your wife rocks.

I used to scrap book and many of the mentioned tools sitting in tupper containers down stairs. I think they may be getting a new life.

It's good to be a pack rat!!

~ Noel

[ClayB]

Kate,

When I rebuilt our basement a few years ago, I built a studio for my wife to do her crafts in. She let me come out of the closet I had my leather stuff in and use a corner of her room. It wasn't long before she had her room filled up, and I had to move out to the last remaining corner of the basement. Now my corner is about as full as it can get. There are a lot of things in our crafts that overlap and we can share and it's fun to be able to work together.

Patrice,

As someone mentioned, the cuttlebug can be found in a lot of craft stores here in the states and you should be able to find it online. When we tried to use a green leaf, it squished all the juice out of it and kind of made a mess. The dried one worked a lot better. We had some dry leaves laying around that I picked up several years ago because I thought they looked cool. Never knew what we were going to do with them. We have dried leaves and flowers in between pages of a book.

Noel,

I am sure there are lots of your scrapbooking things you can make use of with leather too.

I have shared all your comments with Stacy (my wife). Thanks all of you for you encouragement.

Clay

[Patrice]

ClayB and Kate

Thank you for your advices! :biggrin:

[CitizenKate]

That is so neat!

Kate

There are a lot of things in our crafts that overlap and we can share and it's fun to be able to work together.