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| Found this dragon online. I moved it to MS Word so I could scale it to the correct size. |
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| This is after I cut the pattern in with the swivel knife. |
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| This is the pattern for the back side of the card holder. It is the dragon's eye. |
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| This is after the tooling. I beveled the edges and used the backgrounder where I could. |
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| This was all beveling. I still want to work on smoothing out my lines when I "walk" the tool. |
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| This is what it looks like when you smear the antique finish on. I went on to cover the whole front of the leather. Used Fiebing's Antique Finish Medium Brown. |
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| I wrapped a ruler in a paper towel and wiped off the excess. This allows the Antique to really sit down in the tooling. |
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| Following the directions in the kit, I tied the three layers together with the top knot. Then, I started with a single needle and did a simple pinning stitch. At the end, I started the running stitch back the other way. A tip they mention is to make sure you come up on the same side of the stitch on every stitch. I aimed for the outside edge as much as I could. |
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| This is the finished project. I hammered the stitching and burnished the edges. |
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| This is the other side. The two little water spots went away when dry. |
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| This is a test piece I did with the belly of some leather I bought. The stamp was done with archival WATERPROOF brown ink. The leather took it nicely. I then did minimal tooling under the mouse just to see what it will look like. |
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| On the other side I did testing to see what worked together. In the left most section, I played a layer of Super Shene, then Antique Finish, then All in 1. I might not have let it set totally but the All in One Stain and Finish lifted the Antique Finish right out of the pear shading. Not Good. I also labeled it with a fine tip sharpie marker and had no runs from any of the products |
