Fake Leather

Today's examples show how one can use specialty paper to create special effects.  In this case, I had some black leather-look paper I had picked up at a scrapbook store - no idea who the manufacturer is, but it is really neat stuff.  I used it on this set of scrapbook pages (2nd page below) to play up the masculine feel of the page. (background paper from Hot Off the Press).

I found the fake leather paper cut really nicely on my Silhouette, so that made it easy to create the title and also gave me the idea for my next project - some paper piecing (patterns and many of the papers are from Hot Off the Press).

That fake leather worked GREAT for the tire and the pads of the cat's feet, and the Silhouette software did a great job of outlining the pattern so it could be cut out on the Silhouette instead of by hand.