How to Make Personalized Leather Art Bag Charms?

Add a personal touch to your favorite bag! Making handmade leather accessories is a great choice. You can create exquisite items that showcase your style without needing complex tools.

Leather craft accessories are the finishing touches that elevate the taste of a bag. Whether it's cute, modern and minimalist, or vintage and charming, they can all be achieved through the texture of leather and your ingenuity.

Creating leather craft accessories is an excellent starting point for those entering the world of leather arts. The project is small, requires minimal materials, and has a relatively low technical barrier, yet it allows you to quickly experience the joy of cutting, shaping, decorating, and assembling leather.

Once completed, these items can not only decorate your bags but also serve as keychains or small gifts, bringing immense satisfaction!

The production process is clear and straightforward, making it an easy craft project for beginners to try. With basic tools ready, unleash your creativity and start!

▍ Materials and Tools List

▍Detailed Explanation of 5 Steps

1. Design and Material Selection

• Design simple shapes: heart, star, letters, etc. (beginner is advised to start with basic shapes)
• Draw a template on paper or print an existing pattern.
• Select leather according to design: Vegetable-tanned leather is suitable for carving and dyeing, while chrome-tanned leather has rich colors and requires no treatment.

Vegetable-tanned leather

Chrome -tanned leather

2. Precision cutting

• The template is attached to the leather, and the outline is lightly drawn with a cone.
  
• Combination design: superimpose small leather pieces or different materials (cloth/wooden beads) and temporarily fix them with glue
• Use a utility knife to lightly cut along the lines. (Keep the blade vertical)
• Complex curves are smoother with a rotating engraving knife.

3. Edge Finishing (Texture Key!)

• Use a trimmer to scrape the edges *upper and lower corners* (not the entire edge) → create rounded arcs
• 350 grit sandpaper one-way grinding → remove burrs
• Coat the edge with sealing liquid → Polish with a cloth strip → Obtain a glossy and durable edge

4. Creative Decoration

• Dyeing: Dip cotton swab in dye and thinly apply multiple layers (plant-tanned leather needs to be moistened first)
• Embossing: Spray water on leather → Align the stamp → Hammer vertically (even depth is preferred)
• Combination design: superimpose small leather pieces or different materials (cloth/wooden beads) and temporarily fix them with glue

5.Drilling and Assembly

• Punched hole at the leather (circular punch size matches the thickness of the hanging ring)
• Multi-layer leather is fixed with rivets/sewing (sewing holes need to be planned in advance)
• Finish the charms!

  

  ▍ Feel the gas station

  • Minimalist style: solid color circle + embossed English abbreviation

  • Cute route: animal outline + bright colored leather rope

  • Retro texture: aged vegetable tanned leather + brass accessories

  • Practical: a combination of key chain and mini card bag

  💡Tips for beginners:

  • Make a small size of 5x5cm for the first time

  • Make good use of mooncake boxes/cardstock as free templates

  • The wrong cutting edge can be changed to a serrated design to save the situation

  No need to worry about tools!

  For quick access to materials, click the link to get the material and tools.

  https://wutaleather.com/

  Create your own signature bag decoration to imprint the temperature of your daily carrying ✨