Learn How To Make a Key Ring Book Charm in Minutes!

Are you a collector of tiny treasures? Then we’ve got something to add to your collection. Today we’re showing you how we used scrap leather + watercolor paper lying around the studio to create this mini Key Ring Book Charm!



This DIY keychain is easy to make and would be a fun back to school craft to do with the kiddos!

Follow along for a step by step tutorial below.



Supplies :

• Scrap leather
• Chain + hooks
• Keychain ring
• Craft glue
• Scissors, rotary cutter or exacto knife
• Watercolor paper
• String
• Leather needles
• Leather whole puncher
• ruler

Step 1 :

• Cut your leather to 1 ½ x 2”

Step 2 :

• Cut (or tear if you want a raw edge) your paper about the same size of your leather, just slightly smaller. This book used 6 tiny sheets of watercolor paper.

Step 3:

• Punch holes in your paper using the leather hole puncher

Step 4:

• Punch holes in the ‘spine’ of the (leather) book to sew in your paper. This part can get a little tricky. I suggest using a ruler to measure out where the holes should go.

should look something like this :

• Also, once you know how many pages you want or how many you can comfortably fit in your book, you’ve got to create the signatures.

‘Signatures’ is booking binding terminology for paper stacked together and folded in half.

There are 6 pieces of paper in this book. That makes for 3 signatures, with 2 pieces of paper and 12 pages front and back total (24 surfaces).

• Once all wholes are punched in the leather + paper, sew in each signature one at a time. Creating an ‘X’ stitch on the spine

 



Step 5 :

• Using scissors, cut your chain to the desired length for your keychain. Add small ring to hook onto keyring.

*You could also turn this into a necklace at this point.

Step 6 :

• Punch a small whole at the top of the spine of your book to connect the keychain + book.

Step 7 :

• Add tassels to your keychain for extra flair! Cut a strip of leather about 1 inch thick and 6 inches long. Cut little lines stopping just before the edge of the leather to create the fringe.

Step 8+9 :

• Cut a little strip of leather to connect to the keychain. Loop the strip through the ring and fold in half. Glue strip to the inside of fringe and ‘roll up’.

 



All done! Now you can journal on the go and collect all those little special moments in life.

And if you're thinking, ' Thats cute and all but I need a normal sized journal...' then check out these : Leather Rustic Journal  , Leather Braided Wrap Journal , or our Rustic Writers Book and many more, here!

Bound with Love,

Court