For our third.
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.
So here is what I did.
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 excited is an envelope?
In my case, not very.
Picture it though.
And the 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.
Multi-shot!
At the end there?
MDM= Mike, Donna, Matty
Awwwwww.
materials used:
leather
heavy duty coated thread
all-purpose craft glue
archival ink stamp pad
alphabet stamps
scrap papers, recycled
gold tag paper
purchased graph journal
Have to say that I love it! Many thanks, love!