Today in my Production Lab class, we got to engrave tree shaped leatherette ornaments. It was a bit scary, but I think that’s because I didn’t want to mess with the engraver. I made up my designs below in Adobe Illustrator.
I ended up going with the second front design.
My takeaways
- When printing on this type of leather, bold letters show up better
- If I would do this again, I would thicken the stroke of “Ethel Cain”
- I had to do this on the fly and engrave the back twice because I could barely see the engraving the first time
- It was a lot easier to use the engraver than I thought! Now I’m not as hesitant to use it.