Leather Embossing

Leather embossing is generally the same as embossing on paper. Embossing on leather though is more for decoration on little things like watch bands. It's really very simple and takes only a couple materials. This is just more of a for fun thing. Not many people would really need to know how to do this (unless you decide to make leather products for a living).

What to Get:

Shammy

Metal cut out

wax paper

Shoe polish

vice

How-To:

1. Soak the shammy in water

2. Lay it over a metal plate that you have cut a design into

3. Put wax paper all around it and pinch into a vice tightly over night

**the wax paper helps so that you don't rust the vice**

4.  Last step! Apply a color show polish to it to give it a color stain and you have yourself a cheap and easy leather emboss. If you are really creative, you could make a journal cover or wallet!

This example used a cast form but the same general steps apply.
https://www.etsy.com/market/stamping_leather