I just wanted to whip up something to put on my sister’s birthday gift for this weekend (already made her an edge lit Happy Birthday sign). So I was leaning toward handmade flowers, and of course I wanted to use the Glowforge. I flirted with the idea of making them out of leather, but knowing my sister they would end up in the trash after opening the gift (she’s not into saving stuff; that’s fine). So I decided to use Grunge Paper from Ranger instead. It is made from recycled paper and has a texture and thickness very much like thin leather, and you can do pretty much the same things to it. Great for prototyping leather things.
I designed the tripetal pieces in Illustrator with the little squiggly edges using the ZigZag filter. Cut out of Grunge paper (cuts like butter).
Yeesh. Yet another thing on the queue of materials I’ve never heard of that I nowneed to try. That is awesome, and I bet it smells way better than lasered leather too…
They look super great @cynd11 and doing them by hand would be a little time consuming. Just whip out the laser and taser some paper. And totally unique. You guys on this forum, oh you guys just keep putting awesomeness out there.
I think it is closest in size to the thinnest (1.5 oz?) PG leather. I believe they make a Grunge Board that is thicker but I don’t know if it is flexible like this is.
This intererested me, too. Looked on Amazon, and specifically at the link that @cynd11 provided. I was hoping for free shipping, so not sure that’s where I’ll order from. Hopefully, I can find some locally to try.