Lady Falcon Travelers Tagged "pyrography"

Announcing the winner.. and a painted passport TN

January 30, 2015 10 Comments

This will be a very short blogpost, with just the video announcing the winner of the giveaway from the previous blogpost Traveler's Notebook.

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So a short blogpost and a short video, that would be a first right? =) Maybe even a bit too short... How about a little eye candy then, my newest addition to my Traveler's Notebook family. Meet my super cute wallet passport Traveler's Notebook.

When I started I didn't know if it was going to work... I just knew I wanted to try it!

Gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised about the result.

The original painting isn't with me, because it lives in a Round Robin book in Germany ;-)

I was rather sad to see it go, but made several pictures and have been using it for my business card and things like that. I love the colors and the feel of the painting.

I wasn't sure if I would be able to reproduce it, because, honestly, I never know what I do/did....I just do....

But I think it turned out rather well and it even looks cool with my lovely vintage Lady Falcon pen =) Anyway, back to the give-away... Congratulations Tabatha, your notebook is coming your way, I hope you will enjoy using it as much as I did making it =)

Have a wonderful weekend.

CLOSED My very first Pyrography Traveler's Notebook and a giveaway

January 19, 2015 48 Comments

At the beginning of last year I saw some beautiful Traveler's Notebook that were made with a technique called leather burning, pyrography. Inspired by this I set out to gather all the materials needed to give this a shot. Made a trial piece in leather and then somehow never got any further.

I guess I was just scared to ruin it and didn't trust myself enough to just go and do it. Well last week I gathered all the courage I could muster and went for it. Fail or no fail, I was going to make a Traveler's Notebook with pyrography.

And I did =)

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Now I'm definitely not an expert at this technique, but I had fun doing it and I think it turned out rather nice. =)

I started with an undeyed piece of leather, just like the trial I did last year March. I did a quick outline sketch with pencil and freehanded the rest of the wolfshead and the text onto the leather with the burning tool.

Oddly enough though, after dyeing the leather, most of the dark lines turned out light. To give it a little extra definition, I took a brush and some leather dye and added some dark accents.

Added some stamping for some extra texture.

I really like all those browns together.

Now I also promised I would do a giveaway, but with the Christmas and some health issues in December, somehow I just didn't get around to do this. Things are looking up though and that's why I thought it might be nice to make this Traveler's Notebook the TN for the giveaway.

That's why I added some extra inserts to it.

A Month on 2 pages diary for 2015, with extra room for notes after each month.

An undated week on two pages diary, with a vertical format.

And next to the plain insert I always add, there's also a folder with 2 pen-loops.

So the winner of the giveaway can start right of the bat with a full Traveler's Notebook, with room to spare, because it's the XL regular sized TN and it fits quite a bit more booklets, as you can see in the video I made.

So, how then to enter into the give away. There are, obviously, a few rules:

* Subscribe to my channel and leave comment on the video (moniquevmb)

* Subscribe to my blog and comment on this blogpost

* Like my Facebook page and leave a comment on the related post (https://www.facebook.com/MorganLeFaesTrinkets)

Each one of these will give you an extra entry for the giveaway...

I will enter all into an online raffle thingy. Now I am new to this, so I have no clue as to how these things work, so bear with me, while I figure this out.

You are welcome to enter from around the world, You do have to send me your address though, when you win and want me to send it to you ;-)

Next week on sunday, the 25th of January, I will announce the winner of the giveaway.

I hope you like this.

Good luck with the giveaway and a wonderful week to you all =)