ChristWay Community Church × Leatherius Woodman – a leather stamping study

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies in leather.

An August study.

For ChristWay Community Church.

First, the three words their homepage opens with. We set a small cross above them, because the church's own line completes the sentence – "Love is why Jesus died for us." It goes into the lower corner of the journals, one pale sea-blue and one black.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A black-and-white cross over Love Is Why, created as a leather stamping die for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Pale sea-blue and black leather journals stamped Love Is Why for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Next, the name itself, drawn as it reads: one narrow road running straight to a cross on the horizon. We pressed it on a warm caramel fob and a black one. Black carries the gold.

A black-and-white road leading to a cross above ChristWay, created as a leather stamping die for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Caramel and black leather keychains stamped with a road leading to a cross for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Then, the last line of the church's vision – REACH THE WORLD WITH HIS LOVE – wrapped around a globe, with a small heart pressed over Tennessee, where every journey out begins. Two of the tags run pale sea-blue and pale gray sand. The third is black, and on black the design goes down in gold.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

A black-and-white globe reading Reach the World with His Love, created as a leather stamping die for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Pale sea-blue, gray-sand, and black leather luggage tags stamped Reach the World with His Love for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

The toiletry bags travel with the same sending – a dove on the wing above a single word, SENT, in the corner of a navy over deep espresso brown stack.

A black-and-white flying dove above Sent, created as a leather stamping die for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Navy and deep espresso leather toiletry bags stamped with a flying dove and Sent for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

And finally, the one we liked the most. ChristWay stands on Mountain View Road, so we gave the golden-tan catchall tray the view: the ridge under a small morning sun, and Psalm 121 arched over it – I LIFT UP MY EYES TO THE HILLS.

A black-and-white Psalm 121 ridge medallion, created as a leather stamping die for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

An arizona leather catchall tray stamped with a Psalm 121 ridge medallion for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.

If you're ChristWay Community Church and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.