Custom Painted Vinyl Wallet

A client wanted an emerald green wallet with accordian card slots, a coin purse and a couple of card windows. We went back and forth a bit on the specific shade, referencing paint chip colors via EasyRGB so we were on the same page as to the color. The picture shows it with the coin compartment open.

I would like to try a marbling paint technique for my next wallet. It will have the ink-printed advertising on one side, and coordinating marbling on the outside. It would be so stunning that the money would never want to leave the wallet!

Back in the Saddle

I had the pieces of this wallet sitting around for a long time. It has been a rough winter. I had thought my fatigue flares were a thing of the past, but my recovery is not proceeding according to my agenda. Feels great to be back in the workshop! This wallet is a warm-up for a custom wallet. I had to make one to remind myself of the order of operations in making this accordian-style organizer wallet.

Modular wallet design, website progress thereof.

I'm not set up to produce volume at this point, so I figure what's the point in going for mass appeal? I can leave that up to Freitag. Instead, I can offer customers the custom features that they want in their wallets. I'm planning to have a form with all the types of design modules I can offer in a wallet; the potential customer fills out the form and I give them an estimate. When I'm producing the wallet I gather the various cut files needed to create the wallet, sew and ship.

This picture is to help the customer see what the various modules are so they can fill out the form to get a cost estimate. I need to add a sketch for adhesive custom decals, and include photo samples of the tarp colours I have in stock.

I sketched out the components using Sketchbook Pro.