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Ok so one of the simplest things you can do is use a dye. Here is a little jar of the
dye and again this comes in different colors. Be careful not to get this on you, this is
about as bad as food coloring is in terms of if you get it on your skin it will be on
there for several days. But one way to put it on is you just kind of put it on one of
these sort of absorbent, its kind of a fake sheep skin, kind of a cloth and it will hold
this dye and you kind of put some on there and just sort of evenly kind of brush it across
the surface of the leather and you can see that its getting the leather wet but its actually
dying the leather as well and so we're going to kind of put that on and were going to let
that dry and you will see when its dry that now that leather has a different color to
it. You want to kind of wait for that leather to dry before you do the next step. These
leather dyes can also be applied with a little paint brush to like more detailed areas So
for example, lets say we were working on something like this and lets say you wanted the inside
of maybe one of these letters colored in if you're really good with a brush you could
bring this brush in and maybe really carefully kind of go up against the edges of something
that?s already been tooled and you know once this is dried and polished out it looks really
nice because you have two different colors of leather that are separated well not just
by the color but by kind of the stamping and the beveling and kind of the 3 dimensional
aspect of that leather.