I absolutely love making silk ribbon wrap bracelets. I am obsessed about looking for different ribbon colors that I love and hope as well, that my customers will love (they do, they do!). I started making them when someone asked me if I could make a bracelet with the word Namaste. So I credit my yoga lovers for opening that door to me.
I've been dying to start up using leather for my metal pieces and I'm happy to say I finally made one.
And I can't say it was as easy as it looks to make. I could buy precut leather bracelets with the snaps already attached but I found a vendor who makes these awesome tooled leather. And they use different colors too...of course they sold some without the snaps (they sell a few with them, but I wanted to try my hand with putting the snaps, etc...) and I ordered a few test pieces. I love them...
Check out the detail! And the color! This one is black and silver but I got some that are red and black, white and aqua, it's so ME. I'm more metal and leather than ribbons. Does that make sense? I wish I was more like ribbons: soft, flowing, versatile. Leather is harder, it doesn't flow, it's edgier...yeah that describes me. Though I aspire to be more soft...I really do! lol hence why I love making ribbon bracelets.
Another reason I bought this leather is that they gave me options in sizing, hallelujah! So I love this company and just bought more leather.
Now learning to put in the snaps made me mess up 2 bracelets. When learning something new you are bound to make mistakes. I've made plenty just learning how to stamp metal. I still make plenty mistakes when I do orders. I just have to take a breath and shake it off...my perfectionism can sometimes get the best of me. It's why I love metal stamping, your mistakes are quite obvious and you can't erase a stamp made in metal. You just have to start again and get better. Sure you waste a lot of pieces, so if you don't want to waste money, you HAVE to get better.
Anyway putting in snaps, sucked! No, correction...putting in Segma Snaps sucked. Then I found some videos with pros showing how to put on snaps (thank you guys/girls!). I purchased Line-20 snaps instead which tada! -is so much easier to set, as everyone says in their videos. Mistakes I tell you. But finally I got it! My snaps work and I can only get better. Setting rivets were much easier, so at least attaching the metal to the leather wasn't hard.
I will be posting more photos soon of my new leather bracelets. Thanks for reading!
Xoxo,
Yolanda
I've been dying to start up using leather for my metal pieces and I'm happy to say I finally made one.
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And I can't say it was as easy as it looks to make. I could buy precut leather bracelets with the snaps already attached but I found a vendor who makes these awesome tooled leather. And they use different colors too...of course they sold some without the snaps (they sell a few with them, but I wanted to try my hand with putting the snaps, etc...) and I ordered a few test pieces. I love them...
Check out the detail! And the color! This one is black and silver but I got some that are red and black, white and aqua, it's so ME. I'm more metal and leather than ribbons. Does that make sense? I wish I was more like ribbons: soft, flowing, versatile. Leather is harder, it doesn't flow, it's edgier...yeah that describes me. Though I aspire to be more soft...I really do! lol hence why I love making ribbon bracelets.
Another reason I bought this leather is that they gave me options in sizing, hallelujah! So I love this company and just bought more leather.
Now learning to put in the snaps made me mess up 2 bracelets. When learning something new you are bound to make mistakes. I've made plenty just learning how to stamp metal. I still make plenty mistakes when I do orders. I just have to take a breath and shake it off...my perfectionism can sometimes get the best of me. It's why I love metal stamping, your mistakes are quite obvious and you can't erase a stamp made in metal. You just have to start again and get better. Sure you waste a lot of pieces, so if you don't want to waste money, you HAVE to get better.
Anyway putting in snaps, sucked! No, correction...putting in Segma Snaps sucked. Then I found some videos with pros showing how to put on snaps (thank you guys/girls!). I purchased Line-20 snaps instead which tada! -is so much easier to set, as everyone says in their videos. Mistakes I tell you. But finally I got it! My snaps work and I can only get better. Setting rivets were much easier, so at least attaching the metal to the leather wasn't hard.
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Xoxo,
Yolanda
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