Sweet Tooth – a candy-inspired leather stamping collection

Sweet Tooth – a leather stamping collection from the Practice Log. Volume I-D.

A September study.

Candy is one of the few gifts still chosen piece by piece – a mixed bag from the scoop bins says someone knows exactly what you like. We pressed that language into leather, where it keeps.

First, we drew a little candy bar, ends still crimped from the wrapping machine, and gave it the only label it has ever needed – FUN SIZE. On a keychain, the smallest thing we make, the words come true.

The black-and-white Fun Size candy-wrapper stamp plate from the Sweet Tooth leather collection.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

A fuchsia leather keychain blind-debossed with the Fun Size candy-wrapper design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

The black fob carries the words in gold foil, the way good chocolate gets dressed.

A black leather keychain gold-stamped with the Fun Size candy-wrapper design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

Next, we stretched a twist-wrapped sweet along the whole luggage tag and wrote ONE FOR THE ROAD across the wrapper – the send-off and the sweet in one press. Three tags, three candy colors.

The black-and-white One for the Road wrapped-candy stamp plate from the Sweet Tooth leather collection.

A blush leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the One for the Road candy design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the One for the Road candy design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

A poppy-red leather luggage tag blind-debossed with the One for the Road candy design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

Then the toiletry bags. We crossed a lollipop and a toothbrush like dueling swords and set the honest motto beneath: SWEETS FIRST. It sits in the corner of a caramel and dark espresso stack – caramel over chocolate.

The black-and-white Sweets First lollipop-and-toothbrush stamp plate from the Sweet Tooth leather collection.

Caramel and dark espresso leather dopp kits blind-debossed with the Sweets First design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

Then the journals. A gummy bear sits for a formal portrait in an oval frame, and the ring around it reads SWEET TOOTH SINCE CHILDHOOD – for the grown-up who keeps a serious desk and a pocketful of gummy bears.

The black-and-white Sweet Tooth Since Childhood gummy-bear stamp plate from the Sweet Tooth leather collection.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

A dark espresso leather journal blind-debossed with the Sweet Tooth Since Childhood gummy-bear design.

A blueberry leather journal blind-debossed with the Sweet Tooth Since Childhood gummy-bear design.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A catchall tray is where the pockets empty at the end of the day, so we set a single wrapped sweet at its center inside a ring that reads SAVED YOU THE LAST PIECE – pressed into golden tan leather that will outlast every bag of candy it ever supervises.

The black-and-white Saved You the Last Piece wrapped-candy stamp plate from the Sweet Tooth leather collection.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

An arizona tan leather catchall tray blind-debossed with the Saved You the Last Piece design from the Sweet Tooth collection.

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

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