Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Leather Stamping


I was recently inspired by a beautiful lady that makes a damn good living making custom stamped leather belts, cuffs, animal collars, gun holsters, tons of stuff. I was ESPECIALLY mesmerized by the particular letter stamping she used, so I finally got my hands on the tooling I needed, and couple of blank leather cuffs, and went to town.

It took all day to make it even look the least bit decent :P especially not having a hammer to stamp the letters with. The paint was a little messy, and smeared a few times, but after a couple of seconds of scraping, it came right off. I was worried about the acrylic paint cracking, so I used some of this diamond glaze I had, not sure if it would work, but it certainly did!

I made this first one for my husband while he's at work, so he knows I'm thinking about him <3 then I tried it on a realized it fit me perfect, which means it's way too small for him, FAIL. Lesson learned, next time I'll get medium sized cuffs!

You can get a custom one hand made just for you at www.hotroddesigns.etsy.com!