Our Hand Tooled Leather Journals are made with high quality leather. We hand bound all the pages together so that when opening it up and writing the pages lie flat at all times. We use acid free archival quality Arches (cotton lintner) paper. Each journal contains two hundred pages. You can chose from a permanently bound journal or a refillable journal. The journals come in two different sizes 5x6-1/2 or 6x9. Your choice of hand tooled design or personalization included. Makes a beautiful gift and lifelong keepsake! Let us help you! Call us…our artists will personally assist you to ensure your new Hand tooled leather large journals is exactly the hand tooled leather product of your dreams. Every hand tooled leather product from Kerry's Custom Leather offers the following options: Personalization & Customization: Kerry's Custom Leather offers hand tooled personalization of all of our handmade leather accessories with your name or personal motto. We have a variety of lettering styles and fonts for you to choose from. View standard lettering styles and fonts (opens in new window) >> Artwork/Design Customization: If you would like artwork on your covers, please contact Kerry's Custom Leather to discuss your custom design or check out our previous work to see some of the designs we have available (more designs are added frequently). Leather color: Our leather supplier supplies us with superior quality domestic 4-5 ounce (cow) leather hides that accept color exceptionally well (so that we can stain or dye the hide by request). This allows us to offer a wide range of colors, or custom colors (by request). The leather colors listed in our options are our "standard" colors. However, if you would like a color not listed below, simply contact us, as we can dye a leather hide to match most color requests
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Welcome to Kerry’s Custom Leather! My name is Kerry Phipps and I am the lead artist for Kerry’s Custom Leather. I am from a family of custom leather crafters who have been producing the finest quality, custom designed, hand tooled, and completely handmade custom leather products since the early 1950′s. Everything we create is custom designed to your exact specifications. Once we understand your order, we hand cut the leather from the hide, hand tool, hand dye, and hand sew your order, there is never a machine involved in the creation of your hand tooled leather items. Every item is handmade in the Midwest USA by our master artisans. We strive to create the perfect gift or product for you, got a significant other who is hard to buy for, how about a custom daytimer which screams it’s mine. Since each of our products is hand tooled, hand carved, and hand sewn for each client, we have included samples of our work in these pages to show the quality, but if you dont see what you want don’t hesitate top call or write an email, I am sure we can help. Since all of our work is custom just for you, and of the finest handmade quality, our work is not inexpensive, instead, it is designed to last 5-10 times longer than the less expensive substitutes. So if you are looking for the highest quality handmade leather products available send us an email.
Greg Sadowski
For Custom Leather Coast Guard Chief BookFrom the first email to the finished product Kerry was helping every step.
Even with some little extra add-ons to make it that much more personalized there were never any issues. Extremely happy with the finished product.
Daniel Negron
For Leather Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Charge BookI am extremely happy with the way my book came out! Kerry was very easy to communicate with and made clear exactly what I was getting. I will definitely go back for more products in the future!! Thank you!
Nina Combs
For Need a leather 3-ring binder for my 90-year-old dad!Ohmygod,we found Kerry online, just picked her because her products looked so beautiful, and she turned out to be the nicest, most wonderful, kind, generous, person to deal with. She made the most GORGEOUS engraved leather notebook (with our own custom design!) for our dad's 90th birthday present—it was, Dad told us, one of the nicest presents he'd ever gotten in his entire life. She hand-dyed the leather, hand-tooled the inscription, even sent us pictures as she proceeded. Our dealings with her were—seriously—fantastic beyond our wildest imaginings. Don't mean to sound so effusive, but she is not only an amazing artisan, but an amazing person. Hope we get to meet her someday!!!!!
Ryan O’Hare
For Custom Leather Coast Guard Chief BookKerry was great to work with! The project was exactly what I was looking for. She was very easy to communicate with and quick to respond. Highly recommended!!
jenna bottino
For ScrapbookMy experience with Kerry has been so hassle-free. I had a vision and she transformed my idea right onto paper, and leather! This custom album for my husband's fire academy graduation is the perfect, personalized gift that he'll have for many years to come.
Kerry involved me in the process of making this book by explaining each step in detail and documenting the process through pictures.
Knowing that I wanted to get the album to him by graduation day, she even sent it priority mail. It was a pleasure to work with her, you won't be disappointed!
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