Yesterday I got to attend a class at Ten Seconds Studio and made this awesome journal – completely!  We even did the binding (which I absolutely loved) and added great hardware!

And to practice, we made a cute little notebook and we even made the coil for it.  Such a productive day!

And last but not least, I got to see and create with good friends!

Tangled Leather Art Journal

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So it’s been a month since I started this, and I guess time flies when you’re having fun.  I’ve been practicing and catching up on all the new tangles, and I think I have a new one I created.

But the most fun I’ve had recently was creating a Leather Journal from an online class and kit from my friends at Ten Seconds Studio.  They normally use metal as their art form, but have just discovered that their tools for working on metal also work on their “Cattle-ist Leather.”  I happen to have a few of the metal tools because I love playing with the metal also, so when I saw the promo for the journal, my tangling mind went wild.  First, here is a picture of the finished journal.

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And here are closeups of the tangles on the covers.  I had to experiment to see which tangles translate to the leather.  Cadent and Shattuck were the easiest to do, and my version of drupe worked pretty well.  H2, Hollibaugh and Flux were a little trickier because of the lines that are so close together.

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I have more leather and the other color of stains to work with.  I can’t wait!

A Lot to Learn

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“This site is still under construction.”  Hopefully I will be able to delete that sentence very soon, but I have a lot to learn about blogging and managing it.  I really just wanted a place to list any classes I have and to show off my students’ works of art.  Until then…I have a lot of work to do!