Handmade leather crafts for beginners - a collection of simple and easy to understand master classes

We present you some ideas of wonderful crafts made of leather: wall panels, key rings, souvenirs, interior things, jewelry and much more. All you need is a little free time, imagination and fantasy. It is worth noting that any material is suitable for making crafts, both natural leather and artificial or eco-leather.

Wall panel

Decorative panel of leather flowers looks very stylish and attractive. This product will complement and refresh any interior and easily replace the picture on the wall.

You will need:

• A 30 by 50 centimeter piece of leather for the base.
• Different colored leather trimmings.
• Heavy duty glue.
• Scissors.
• Sturdy paper to make a pattern.
• Decorative elements - beads, beads, rhinestones and so on.
• Cardboard.

The first thing to do is to prepare the basis. For this purpose, we took a piece of leather 30 by 50 centimeters. If you wish, the base can be made in the form of a circle, square, oval, and so on. For the finished product to hold its shape well, it is recommended to glue cardboard to the base.

Next, make flowers for the panel. We will assemble them from colored leather petals. To ensure that all the petals were the same shape and size, we prepare a pattern from a sheet of heavy paper, cutting out an oval from it.

Then, using the pattern and scissors, cut out petals for flowers from leather. Since the flowers on the base will be arranged in random order, the flowers can be any number.

So, the petals are cut out. Arm ourselves with glue and glue our blanks, forming a flower.

In the same way we cut out the leaves for our buds.

Once the flowers and leaves are ready, you can start the main part of the work: placing them on the base. You can glue the flowers to the base in any, arbitrary order, making a beautiful floral composition. You can supplement the finished panel with any decorative elements. Show your imagination and the pieces of leather will turn into a wonderful element for decorating the interior.

Keyring

Even a novice craftsman can make an original keychain. No special skills and abilities are needed to make it.

You will need:

• Pieces of colorful leather.
• Scissors.
• A key ring.

Cut equal strips of leather, 16 cm by 3-4 mm. The thinner the strips, the more effective the finished product.

Put these strips through a loop, put it through the ring for the keys and tighten the knot. Your keyring is ready.

Leather jewelry

Leather jewelry looks very elegant and stylish. Pieces of leather can be used to make a fashion brooch, headband, necklace, bracelet and more.

Brooch

1. To make the brooch, you need to make three flowers of different sizes and leaves according to the instructions described above, cut thin strips and cut the base out of the leather. To make the finished product more stylish, we recommend making the base in the form of an oval.
2. Next to the main part of the product you need to glue a dense cardboard, and on its front part place the buds.
3. Prepared thin strips should be wrapped around the flowers, leaving free edges.
4. In the end, it is necessary to glue a pin to the brooch.
5. The stylish accessory is ready.

A headband made of leather

Making a leather hair accessory is very simple. As the base take a plastic headband and cover it with a suitable size piece of leather, fixing it with glue. If desired, you can decorate the headband with rhinestones, sequins, leather flowers and so on.

Leather Bracelet

Prepare a strip of leather, a chain and a button matching the color of the basic materials. The strip of leather should be divided into two equal segments and weave a braid from them and a chain. Start braiding so that in the beginning of the workpiece there is a loop for a button. Tie the edges of the strips with a knot and sew a button to them.

Leather necklace

Costume jewelry made of leather will always be in fashion for its simplicity, brevity and attractiveness. Very unusual look on the neck of the pendant on a leather strap. Make such a strap is very easy: cut a strip of leather of desired length and width, and sew to the edge of the clasp. Putting a stylish pendant on the strap, it, from a simple piece of leather, becomes an original piece of jewelry.

Another way to make a leather necklace looks like this: cut thin strips of colorful leather, connect their edges, sew fasteners. Supplement such a stylish, youthful accessory can be a thin chain.

Leather photo frame

When we put our favorite photos in a photo frame, we want to keep the happy moments in our memory as long as possible. A stylish leather frame will be a great interior decor or a gift for a loved one.

You will need:

• Heavy cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Leather.

The first thing you need to do is to prepare the base. For this purpose you have to cut out from thick cardboard a rectangle with the size 20x35 and a frame, the perimeter of which is 20x35, and inside it a window for the window 10x15 (if you have a larger photo, the frame, respectively, should be larger).

Then you have to cut out the stand for our photo frame from cardboard in the form of a trapeze and glue it to the base. Having placed the photo between the main part of the product and the frame, you can glue the elements together.

Now moving on to the decoration of the resulting photo frame. Cut small circles of leather of different sizes and glue them chaotically to the frame. The handicraft is ready.

Thus, from things that seem unnecessary at first glance, you can make a lot of useful things, including a case for glasses or phone, mouse pad, purse, wallet, business card holder, caps for the diary, coasters for hot drinks and much more.

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