Tend – a leather gift collection for the people who keep plants alive (Shops Waterfall, Volume I-D)

From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies. Shops Waterfall, Volume I-D.

A September study.

Tend is a small leather collection for the people who keep plants alive. Every piece, from the luggage tag to the journal, speaks the quiet language of watering and waiting.

First, the luggage tag. We wrote down the one sentence that lets a plant keeper leave home – SOMEONE IS WATERING THE PLANTS – and stretched it lengthwise between a tipped watering can and the seedling its water reaches. Deep forest green and warm caramel keep it quiet; the vivid magenta is for the gardener whose bougainvillea blooms loud.

It looks genuinely beautiful.

Black-and-white die artwork of a watering can, falling drops and a seedling beneath SOMEONE IS WATERING THE PLANTS for the Tend leather gift collection, Volume I-D.

A forest-green leather luggage tag blind-stamped with SOMEONE IS WATERING THE PLANTS, a watering can and a seedling in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-stamped with SOMEONE IS WATERING THE PLANTS, a watering can and a seedling in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

A fuchsia leather luggage tag blind-stamped with SOMEONE IS WATERING THE PLANTS, a watering can and a seedling in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

Next, the keychain for the person who is already late. We set a potted seedling under the words ONE MORE PLANT – one more to water before going out, one more to carry home from the nursery. Every plant person knows both readings. It comes in warm caramel, the color of a terracotta pot, and in deep forest green.

Black-and-white die artwork of a potted seedling beneath ONE MORE PLANT for the Tend leather gift collection, Volume I-D.

A caramel leather keychain blind-stamped with ONE MORE PLANT and a potted seedling in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

A forest-green leather keychain blind-stamped with ONE MORE PLANT and a potted seedling in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

Then the toiletry bag. We borrowed the pointed care stake that arrives stuck in every pot and gave it instructions to live by: FULL SUN, WATER DAILY. Care instructions for the human this time, pressed once on warm caramel and once on mottled chestnut.

Looks great when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of a plant-care stake reading FULL SUN and WATER DAILY for the Tend leather gift collection, Volume I-D.

A caramel leather toiletry bag blind-stamped with a FULL SUN and WATER DAILY plant-care stake in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

A Sicilian-brown leather toiletry bag blind-stamped with a FULL SUN and WATER DAILY plant-care stake in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

After that, the catchall tray in golden tan. We circled THE DAY'S SMALL HARVEST with a wreath of seeds and leaves, because that is what the evening emptying of pockets amounts to – keys and stray seeds, the day's crop brought in.

Black-and-white die artwork of a leaf-and-seed wreath around THE DAY'S SMALL HARVEST for the Tend leather gift collection, Volume I-D.

An Arizona leather catchall tray blind-stamped with THE DAY'S SMALL HARVEST inside a leaf-and-seed wreath in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

And finally, the journal. We put a sprout on the cover, seed husk still clinging, under the words WHAT WAS PLANTED AND WHEN – the whole job of a garden notebook, and of most diaries. One journal in deep green, one in pale greige, the color of seed packet paper.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather.

Black-and-white die artwork of a sprout and seed beneath WHAT WAS PLANTED AND WHEN for the Tend leather gift collection, Volume I-D.

A forest-green leather journal blind-stamped with WHAT WAS PLANTED AND WHEN above a sprout in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-stamped with WHAT WAS PLANTED AND WHEN above a sprout in the Tend gift collection, Volume I-D.

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.

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