Forming Leather Part II

This post brought to you by Leather Cord USA.Did you happen to catch the last Leather Cord USA post?  It was all about forming and altering flowers with water and scissors.  In this installment, I’ll show you a few more fun ideas that play with these cute little leather flowers  to make more embellishments.
Bust out those hole punches!  You can leave the flowers flat or form them first with water as seen in the last post.  Most of these are hole punches that you can use for paper except for the one on the far left.  That one is made for leather tooling and I got it at Harbor Freight.  It’s great because it can make multiple hole sizes.
SO easy!  I like to have multiple size hole punch tools to add variety and interest to the individual flowers.
This tool is especially great when tube riveting because you can make the hole the exact same size as the rivet.
Another idea is trimming the edge with pinking shears.  This changes the hole look of the flower in seconds.  These would be so sweet to use in millinery crafting.
OK, time to put it all together.  These are special stick pins with a glue pad. You can string your stack of flower pieces and what not onto the pin.
Just like this!  I love mixing in other elements like metal flowers and beads.
Be sure to use a multi-purpose epoxy to glue the elements onto the pad part of the pin.
Wouldn’t be a blog post without a jean jacket appearance!Do you remember that post on painted tassels?  I applied the same paint with a stiff brush in white on a flower to add a little texture.  Glued all the pieces up at the top and voila….
A sweet stick pin!  The thing I love the most about these flowers is each piece is 24 cents, so you can build these little pins for less than a dollar in most cases!!
Check out all the flower options at Leather Cord USA!