Handmade Leather Journals

Welcome to Riveted By Design, a leathercraft studio and online shop based in Sherwood Park, AB. We specialize in handmade leather journals and offer a variety of colours and styles including bound leather diaries, refillable notebook covers, personal planners, art journals, and photo albums.

Brown leather refillable journal with gold heart decorative closure. Eco-friendly paper refill booklets sit beside.

Hands writing in a brown handmade leather journal. Tarot cards and a cup of coffee are adjacent to the journal.

New & Featured Products

White leather kitty coin purse with big purple eyes on display in a white and gold vintage picture frame

Our newest offering - check out these adorable leather coin purses. Sculpted in 3D out of leather, these pouches are cut, punched, and stitched all by hand. We can hardly take our eyes off of these little cuties! As usual, we have many colour variations available.

White leather puppy coin purse on display in a white and gold vintage picture frame

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Maker Showcase | G7 Summit Kananaskis 2025

We were thrilled to be asked to create custom refillable notebook covers for the 2025 G7 Leaders Summit in Kananaskis. We were really pleased with how they turned out and so proud to help represent Albertan and Canadian makers on a global stage.

Custom Leatherwork & Personalized Gifts

We take pride in our work. Creativity, craftsmanship and genuinely personal customer service are important to us. We enjoy working with you to find solutions and help in any way we can with your custom leatherwork creations. If you're looking for personalized leather journals, we can help with up to 3 complimentary stamped initials. If there's something special you have in mind message to tell us your ideas and we will try to assist.

Red leather refillable personal planner with turquoise accent card pocket and pen loop.

Close up of stamped initials on personalized brown leather journal.

Close up of handstitched red leather personal planner.

Personalized handmade brown bound leather journal with simple tie closure

Handmade custom leather album. Hand tooled celtic tree and decorative stitching.

Unique handmade leather bag. Brown crocodile embossed leather.

Our customers are saying...

"Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! The custom leather album that I ordered from Riveted by Design exceeded all of my expectations.These people use top-notch quality of leather and their workmanship is out of this world. I cannot say enough about these Canadian artists. They are a pleasure to work with and quickly had a clear understanding of what I was looking for and delivered a very professional and unique album that I am so proud to present to my client. And by the way, their prices are hard to beat. These amazing people went beyond. Thank you again Stephanie and Sean. I'll be shopping on your site again."

TERRI, NOTRE DAME DE L'ILE PERROT QC

Quality Crafted Accessories

Forest green canvas tote bag with tan leather accent pockets.

We love variety and trying new things so in addition to leather journals, we offer various accessories and handmade goods such as:

Coin purses
Bags
Wallets
Key chains
Masks
Heavy leather duty aprons
Wrist cuffs and chokers

Black leather cuff bracelet and choker necklace with ruffled purple lace detail and silver hardware.

Red leather tiny dragon keychain sitting beside a quartz crystal orb.

"Absolutely love the work they do and the effort they put into their products. Highly recommend and very reasonable pricing. They are willing to try different things to make your ideas come true."

SHELBY, EDMONTON AB

"Amazing customer service and beautiful handmade products. You can really tell that time and care is put into creating each piece. Thank you Riveted By Design!"

ROBYN, FORT SASKATCHEWAN AB

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Each one of our journals is essentially a one-of-a-kind. This is because we purposely incorporate the "live edge" as well as branding and other marks commonly found on a natural leather hide. We love the rustic and unique look that this creates. Even though each journal has a spirit and a look of its own, there are styles and colour combinations that look so great, we're compelled to repeat them. In addition to the more classic blacks, browns, and greys - if you're looking for a vibrant, rich, colourful leather journal - you can expect to find it here. We also have some special closures that are unique to our style. On our site you can find lock and key leather journals, heart locks, and many other distinctive options.

A dark blue handmade bound leather journal with tan binding and closure ties and an antique gold bee embellishment.

"I ordered a Journal for my husband as a Christmas gift. Steph is very helpful and communication was great! Highly recommend!!"

LUCIA, BURNABY BC

"I received a bound journal as a gift. It is such an elegant and class piece of art, I could not dare use it for day to day notes. I use it as a picture journal of the relationship with the love of my life. It is the perfect canvas for the journey that means so much to us!"

THOMAS, CLOQUET MN

"Amazing products made by amazing people. You can see Stephanie and Sean both love what they do and it certainly shows in their work"

ERIC, PORT COQUITLAM BC

"I bought a custom journal that is so beautiful and well made. The service was prompt and the product you get for what you pay is amazing. Their work is unbelievable, they truly put their heart and soul into creating something you'll treasure forever."

AMY, WHITECOURT AB