One. Two. THREE!

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Did you know that a traditional third wedding anniversary gift is leather?
Isn't that interesting?
I kept thinking of typical male, leather goods.
And I kept coming up with the very boring and somehow, not exactly ideal: belt, gloves, wallet, shoes.
Did I really want to give my lovey a belt for our third? Um, no.








Initially I wanted to make the whole book.
I had a hard time though, finding the appropriate paper, thick leather, etc.
So I took an (already leather!) journal and made a cover for it.
Handsewn leather baby!
I really enjoyed making it personal, celebrating us.
I made the card too.
Which continued to be surprisingly pleasing.
Who knew that cutting paper and gluing it down would be so fun?
I'm a second-grader all over again!

Ze card:










I made the envelope too.
But you know, how exciting is an envelope?
Not very.
Picture it though.

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Ze journal:


Before!





Cover!





On!








I used individual letter stamps for the words.
It took a long while, but it was very relaxing and enjoyable.
I think I had around 30 words interspersed throughout the pages.
I like miscellany.
The font is antique typewriter, which I also adore.





Just a sampling!





At the end there?
MDM= Mike, Donna, Matty (our babe)
Awwwwww.

materials used:

purchased graph journal (Mike loves graph paper for his journals. Score.)
leather remnant
heavy duty coated thread
all-purpose craft glue
archival ink stamp pad
alphabet stamps
scrap papers, recycled
gold tag paper


I don't really dig animal products and all. (I'm a veggie.)
But I kinda really enjoyed the leather smell.
Oh shoot me.

Thank you for looking and cheers