Leather Tooling and Scratch Art

[mitch5252]

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[WickedLady]

I had to close my "favorites center" in order to see the whole pic

[Redwahine]

Really nice. Extremely talented.

[BarbaraRose]

Sandy,
Go to this link... http://www.welburngourdfarm.com/

It is a gourd farm in Southern California. You can buy gourds on line from them in many shapes and sizes, and they have on line videos showing how do different techniques and projects. They sell everything you need to make the projects with (tools, dyes, patterns, etc), plus books, etc.

[monik7]

Sandy,
Go to this link... http://www.welburngourdfarm.com/

It is a gourd farm in Southern California. You can buy gourds on line from them in many shapes and sizes, and they have on line videos showing how do different techniques and projects. They sell everything you need to make the projects with (tools, dyes, patterns, etc), plus books, etc.

Thanks Barbie! Looks really interesting.
Sandi

[BarbaraRose]

I have been there a couple of times when I lived out there. Took a class for a Christmas Gourd project. Was really fun! Would love to do more of that someday.
The gourds they have come in "cleaned" and "not cleaned". The not cleaned ones need to be scrubbed (a lot!), and it takes a long time, so I would recommend paying a little more to get the cleaned ones, especially if you have any mold/dust allergies.

[Liz]

Beautiful work, Sandi. The scratch art is especially striking.

[monik7]

Thank you everyone. I really appreciate your kind comments.
Sandi

[OutandAbout]

Wonderful work. I loved the leather work.

I will second Wellburn Gourd Farm. I went there for one of their festivals and bought a few unfinished gourds. I would definitely recommend getting the cleaned gourds, what a pain to clean. Their gourds are very thick and are high quality and take beautifully to paint, dye and burning. I would imagine, the scratch art technique would be easily adapted to the gourd as well.

Thanks for sharing your artwork with us. Linda

[mtngal]

Beautiful Sandi! So glad you posted.
My Grandma Opal tooled all kinds of things.
I have a purse with roses that she made in
fifties! Scratch work lovely too!

[sharon]

Man oh man, I wish I was just half as talented as you are, Sandi! Beautiful work!

[snowball]

one word would be lovely another word would be awesome
indeed you are very talented...
Do you remember Jenny at the gtg in Q? her mom does some awesome gourd carving
at least the pictures show that as well as the ribbons
If she came on the forum more she might also be able to give you ideas
I very much admire the talent of people that can draw my husband could.. me ?
I do crochet some knitting very little of that and Swedish Weave
sheila

[cpatinjones]

Beautiful!

[JoanE]

Sandi, beautiful art. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Getupngo]

Those are beautiful. You must have a steady hand because there is no erasing allowed!

Mine, BTW, would be stick figures! Keep 'em coming.