DIY leather jewelry

Leather is a wonderful material from which you can make original and unique jewelry. In this article, we will present several options for how to make leather jewelry with your own hands. All sorts of cute little things from this material have long gone beyond the youth movement. Famous brands seriously took up the production of such jewelry, because many world celebrities are very fond of such things. And what are you worse? Moreover, such cute little things can easily be done independently, and even get real pleasure from the creative process itself.

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What can be made of leather?

Regarding the popularity of leather jewelry, everything is logical, because such pendants and bracelets are perfectly combined with almost any style - with their variety and unusual appearance they managed to win the hearts of many fashionistas and women of fashion. Their popularity has grown so much that they began to noticeably crowd out numerous and more recently beloved jewelry, which, as a rule, is tied to only one, any particular image.

Important! Leather bracelets look appropriate under t-shirts and summer dresses, are combined with business blouses and suits, and their expensive counterparts, with precious stones, even began to fit into evening and formal dresses.

Our tips will be useful both for experienced needlewomen, and for those who for the first time decided to try themselves in something like that.

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Bracelet number 1

In order to make a jewelry from leather with your own hands, you will need the following:

• Leather cut with smooth rectangular sides.
• Scissors.
• Scotch.
• Clasp.

Sequencing:

1. Fasten a piece of material on a flat surface with tape.
2. Make the same cuts in the middle of the workpiece, stepping an equal distance from both edges.
3. Tie a blank with notches in a knot.
4. Attach the clasp.

The bracelet is ready!

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Bracelet number 2

You can also perform another version of the bracelet - decorated with rhinestones or beads.

To work you will need:

• Leather cut.
• A bit of cotton.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Decor elements - beads, rhinestones.

Sequencing:

1. Cut strips of leather.
2. Glue a strip of fabric from the wrong side.
3. After the base is ready, proceed to decorate the front side.
4. Use glue to attach large or small beads, or other jewelry as intended.
5. Attach the clasp.

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Bracelet number 3

Jewelery made of leather with your own hands, decorated with beads, looks very stylish. In order to complete such a bracelet, you will need:

• Cuts of skin.
• Needle.
• Thread.
• Beads.

Sequencing:

1. Prepare strips from the selected material.
2. Sew the beads with a needle and thread.
3. Sew a buttonhole and buttonhole fastener.

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Leather earrings

If this is your first time planning to make leather jewelry with your own hands, this workshop will tell you a simple way to make original earrings.

To work, you will need the following:

• Thick needle or awl.
• Scissors.
• Small pieces of leather, pliers.
• Clasps.

Sequencing:

1. Make a leaflet shape detail template (oblong shape, pointed end).
2. Transfer the pattern to the material, cut two identical parts with scissors.
3. In the upper part, make a hole with an awl or a thick needle.
4. Flatten the bottom ring of the clasp with pliers.
5. Put on a leather part and tighten it.
6. Use scissors to cut along the edges of the leaf.

Important! Make sure both earrings look the same.

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Leather pendant

You can also make leather jewelry in the form of a pendant, for this prepare:

• Multi-colored pieces of material.
• Cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Glue gun.
• Stone is a key element of jewelry (you can take any that you like).

Sequencing:

1. Cut blanks from cardboard, glue them to pieces of black leather on the wrong side with small allowances, cut them out.
2. Bend the edges, glue them to the cardboard. While these four parts dry out, we make other elements.
3. From the white material, cut two strips, glue each of them along in half - one of them will frame the pendant, and the second task will be gluing the stone.
4. Lubricate small pieces of beige and black leather with glue and wrinkle. After the glue has dried, the relief should be preserved.
5. Glue all previously prepared details to the surface of the pendant (the largest oval part that was pasted at the very beginning serves as the basis for decoration).
6. Make the other three parts of the pendant. To do this, glue the draped piece of leather to the bottom of the black blank. Then wrap each of the parts with white leather flagella. At the end, add an element in the form of a twisted white strip.
7. Take three leather ribbons with a width of 5 mm, tie one knot in the center of each of them.
8. Glue these ribbons on the product, while on the upper parts of the pendant make loops of the same color.
9. Fill the back of the jewelry with leather pieces, loop the ribbon and wrap the joints in small black leather rectangles.

The pendant is ready!

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As you can see, in order to create jewelry from the skin with your own hands, you do not need superpowers. For this work, perseverance, accuracy and a little bit of imagination will be quite enough.