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Step 6: Leather Accessories Leather Charm-1: Fold the leather strip into half. Tie a small knot near the closed end, make sure to keep a loop. Start beading the strip through the open end. Bead to as much as you want, but remember to keep enough strip to create another knot at the end. Tie another knot at the end after you're done beading. The knot should be adjacent to the last bead. Leather Charm-2: For this one a 4 X 6 cm piece of leather should work. Mark a line to keep 1 cm of the cut out leather intact. Cut fine and even fringes on the leather piece. Take a 0.5 X 8 cm piece of leather. Fold it into half and insert the wooden bead into the folded leather strip. Apply glue along the intact part of the fringed leather. Place the beaded leather strip with the fringed leather piece as shown in the picture. Start rolling the fringed leather by keeping the beaded leather strip secure inside the roll. After you're done rolling the leather, use a c...

Step 5: Leather Bracelets These leather bracelets don't require much leather. You can use scrap leather strips to make them. The links to tutorials are given below- Magic braided bracelet  and Leather wrap bracelet .

Step 4: Leather Gift Tags You can use scrap leather to make simple gift tags as well. Adjust and cut the scrap leather pieces into a good shape and punch hole on the top side for the gift tag. Draw Tag pattern on the cut out leather pieces. Carefully cut out the tags along the pattern. Apply a thin layer of glue on the bottom side of the tag. Sprinkle dry glitter powder on the glued area. Allow the glue to dry. Remove extra glitter after the glue dries. Attach a string through the holes and the tags are ready!

Step 3: Leather Pencil Cap We girls often loose our lipliner-eyeliner pencil-kajal caps. Perfectly sharpened liners get smudged without a cap. Gather all supplies and lets solve the problem! You can use scrap rexine or faux leather to make these caps as well. Place your pencil on the scrap rexine as shown in the picture. Fold the rexine / leather and wrap the pencil making sure that the sides touch each other. Mark the required amount of rexine / leather with a pencil and ruler. Cut out the required piece and cut out scallop pattern on the top center of it. Fold the piece into half and mark a border along the open end to make sure you stitch neatly along that line. The width of the border shouldn't be more than 1 cm. Do flat blanket stitches along the border to secure the fold. Start stitching from any one side, I started from the bottom. Stitch all the way to the other end. After reaching the other end tie 2 tight knots and trim extra thread. Done! It ...

Step 2: Leather Zipper Extensions You can use the small strips to make zipper extensions. The length should be of at least 8 cm (or as long as you want the extension to be) and the width 0.25 cm. You can cut and manage the strip as you want but keep the measurements in mind. Take the strip and insert the leather strip inside the zipper hole. Hold both ends of the leather strip together and start inserting the beads. Insert as many beads as you want, but I think 3-5 beads look better. Tie a knot at the end of the strip. Keep 1 cm of the strip and trim extra. You can make zippers similarly using scrap leather pieces. No trouble grabbing the zipper!

Leather crafts are one of the coolest. I'm not an expert but I've really enjoyed all the leather crafts I've done so far. Since I'm a beginner, after completing each leather project I am always left with lots of scrap leathers. But eventually I came up with simple leather craft ideas and finally was able to use those scrap leather. I've shared only 7 scrap leather projects here, check them out and let me know if you have any more ideas! Step 1: Materials Needed To make these projects you will need: Scrap leather Pencil, ruler, X-acto knife and scissor, Other necessary tools vary according to the projects.