Making keychain with leather paint and rivets

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Making keychain with leather paint and rivets
In this DIY tutorial we will show you how to make a very simple keychain with leather paint and rivets yourself.
In this tutorial we show you step by step how you can make a stylish keychain from leather strap itself. The keychain gets the special something through a wide stripe color. For this individual leather keychain you need the following: Angelus Leather Color, Angelus Leather Preparer, leather strap, key ring, rivets, riveting tool, punch and adhesive tape.
Prepare the leather strap for painting by cleaning it from residues and grease with the Preparer. You can use a soft cloth for this. Let the leather strap dry well afterwards.
For a leather keychain you need a piece of ribbon about 26 cm long and 15 mm wide. You need to punch three holes in the ribbon with the punch pliers. These are the holes for the rivet.
Here you can see how the finished punched tape looks like. The two outer holes are punched one centimeter from the end of the ribbon. The center hole is punched about 9 cm from the right edge of the ribbon.
Before you can paint the tape, you must mask off the surface. To do this, fix a strip of adhesive tape to the upper and lower edges of the painting area. Press the adhesive strip firmly onto the leather tape so that no paint runs under the border later.
Now you can color the area between the two adhesive strips with the leather color.
Spread the paint thinly on the leather. This way you will get an even look later.
First paint the front and the edges of the leather strap. After the paint has dried, you can also paint the back of the band if desired.
When the paint is completely dry, you can remove the adhesive strips from the leather strap. The tape may be roughened by the leather strips. This is not a problem. This will disappear with use.
The leather strap keychain is almost ready. The leather strap now only needs to be riveted together with a riveting tool.
Fold the leather strap as shown in the photo. Do not forget to attach the key ring to the leather strap. Push the rivet with the long side from above through the key ring and press the counterpart from below onto the rivet.
Place the riveting tool on the rivet and close the rivet with a strong hammer blow.
The leather strap keychain is now ready. Here you can see the result. For this keychain we painted the front and back of the ribbon. You can also paint only the front, depending on your taste.
Of course, you can also paint the keychain in other colors or additionally decorate with embossing stamps. There are no limits to your imagination.