Leather Embossing Using Stencil and Window Screening

Hi All! Today I have another idea for embossing with leather. This is just a quick explanation of a happy accident I had while playing around with a stencil and window screening and test leather strips. I used white cardstock that I cut three times and layered together. I layered the leather and then the…

Leather Embossing with a Cutting Die

Hello friends! Today I am back with another idea for embossing leather. I don’t know if you’ve tried this before- using a cutting die for embossing. If you use a cutting die with embossing rubber, it gives you more of the embossed look rather than actually cutting. It still kind of cuts a little bit,…

Foiling Experiments Using a Laminator rather than a FoilPress or Glimmer

Hi Everyone! I am interrupting my leather series to do something more appropriate to the Holiday season. Before I finished the leather series, I had started a different series which included some Halloween designs, but didn’t finish the videos in time for that season, haha. So I’ll insert these in now while it’s the season…

Coloring Embossed Leather with Alcohol Ink and StazOn Pigment Ink

Hello Friends! So today I am going to talk a little about what I’ve been doing to color leather. I’ve been playing around with embossing pieces of leather with different things, one of which are cardstock die cuts and stencils. I don’t have a lot of leather tools and material so I reached into my…

Leather Embossing with Cardstock Die Cuts and Stencils- Layer Thicknesses

Hi Everyone! I am back with leather embossing experiments and in this case I am looking at paper cutouts again with an eye towards the thickness of the layers and/or lack there of. I did something similar with paper embossing where I used different thicknesses- by utilizing a different number of  layers glued together- and…

Altered Homemade Embossing Plate from a Tim Holtz Bold Text Die Cut

Hello friends! I know we’ve talked about a million times over making your own embossing plates and a lot of times I use die cuts that I’ve cut myself from my digital cutter. I know we’ve also talked about how you can use just dies that you buy off the shelf. Typically, I cut die…

Leather Embossing Series- Embossing with Cardstock Die Cut Stencil

Hello all! I’m back with leather and my Sizzix Big Shot trying to experiment with things that I can impress into leather. I’ve already experimented with cardstock, but today I’m going to try a different twist on it. In this video I demonstrate again how to prepare the leather, but here in this post I…