DIY keychain – 9 creative and custom projects

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To organize your handbag and more easily find the keys of your home or car, make a custom DIY keychain! Try one of our DIY tutorials of this kind of useful little accessory and learn how to make DIY keychain models for your child and your loved ones.

Rope, leather, decorative clay, wood … These small objects come in so many variations and formats fun and fun to achieve!

DIY Project # 1: How to Make a DIY Keychain in Leather and Gold Foil

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To be fashionable and wear a trendy DIY keychain, experiment with leather and gold! Ecological leather takes on the appearance of a natural material and combines beautifully with metallic shades that are among the most popular colors at this time. Here is the list of necessary materials and steps for creating this accessory:

Create your keychain leather and gold leaf: necessary materials

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To carry out this project, equip yourself with a piece of leather (to buy or cut from an old pair of trousers or a bag), gold leaf, a ring, scissors, glue and brushes that will be used to put the sheet on the leather. Then you just have to follow the steps described in the tutorial below.

Make a DIY leather keychain: leather cutting

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The first step in making your DIY keychain is cutting the leather. To simplify your task, choose a simple but interesting shape: a feather, a leaf, a circle or a diamond, for example. Your creation should not be too big, so make sure it is the size of a classic keychain.

Apply glue on the cut-out leather shape

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Continue by getting rid of the pieces of leather you have left and place the feather cut on your worktop. Cover it with glue in half: it is on this half that you will then lay the gold leaf.

Cover the selected part of gold leaf

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The next step in the project is to cover the selected part of the gold leaf and attach it to the surface of your DIY feather keychain, lightly pressing the gold leaf with a brush.

Decorate your original keychain according to your desires

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Finally, make sure the gold leaf is stuck to the surface of the leather and decorate your pen, following the pattern on the picture above. Use the small end at the base of your pen to add a ring to your custom keychain (wrap this end around a portion of the ring), then attach with glue.

DIY project # 2: DIY key holder case with rings for keys and charger or Headsets

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Here’s another custom keychain project that also lets you store your earbuds or charging cable for your laptop or tablet.

Leather key case with do-it-yourself cable storage: step by step DIY tutorial

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Use the tutorial above to make this accessory that consists of a leather case and two rings, one of which will be used to carry your keys and the other to store your ear cups.

DIY idea # 3: idea to make a keychain yourself in clay decoration

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It has been said: DIY keychains are achievable in several types of materials, even in decorative clay! If you like working with this material, try the following tutorial.

Decorative clay object and cheap key ring to do it yourself

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Take a piece of clay and spread it on your work plan to shape a small object of your choice (a round, a square, an animal …).

Make a hole to secure the key loop

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Once your object is made, make a hole in the clay to insert the ring of your keychain.

How to decorate an original DIY keychain in decorative clay

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After completing these steps, get inspired to decorate your custom keychain! Take colors of your choice and experiment with different painting techniques.

Personalized and trendy keychain accessory imitating the look of marble

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When you have achieved a result that you like, let it dry and hang the ring and your keys to this beautiful creation in decorative clay!

DIY example # 4: wood key holder and salt dough, a natural and original idea

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Did you know that you can replace decorative clay with salt dough and use this homemade material to make a variety of objects, including a DIY keychain?

How to make a keychain in white paste and wood: ideas for creative hobbies and natural accessories

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Only disadvantage of the salt dough: it dries longer and it could swell a little if you decided to put it in the oven. To avoid this, we advise you to work with the salt dough recipe that you have already tried and worked for you!

Creative project n ° 5: how to make a wooden keychain and DIY decoration accessory

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After the personalized leather and agrile creations, let’s see what are the possibilities of making a DIY wooden keychain. Let’s start with a tutorial that involves decorating wooden circles with glitter effect paper. The image at the top shows the materials needed to make this natural accessory and the photos at the bottom give you specific instructions for each stage of the project.

Cut out the wooden decorations and fix them on the wooden support

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Apply glue to the wood surface to secure the decorations and make a hole for the keychain

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Insert the key holder and the chain on the wooden support

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The result of your efforts: a personalized wooden key holder adorned with a beautiful paper decoration, in a shape and a color that you like!

How to make natural wooden keychains

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The wood is also in the form of natural pearls that we like to integrate into its manual activities and its creative hobbies.

DIY Tutorial # 6: Pearl keychain and leather string

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This kind of pearls combines with leather strings and a metal ring in this easy tutorial; here are the materials you would need to make it:

Keychain to make oneself in beads: necessary materials

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Start by attaching the ring to the end of your leather string using a small knot, as shown in the picture below.

Tuto keychain: fix the ring on the string

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Then go to the creative stage of the project: choose one or more colors of paint and decorate your wooden beads.

DIY Tutorial Keychain Beads Wood: Decorate Beads

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Once the beads are dry, you can thread them to your string and fix them with a second knot.

Thread the beads and fix them on the string

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Making a DIY keychain does not have to start at zero. In fact, you can recycle an old keychain that you already have, adding a decoration of your choice.

Easy DIY Idea # 7: How to Make a Tassel Keychain Made of Recycled Materials

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This is precisely what we did to make the models on the image above that were adorned with multicolored rope pompoms added to a metal keychain and fixed with a little glue.

Creation and DIY n ° 8: marine knot elastic keychain or rope to manufacture

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To make a DIY keychain, you do not need to make big expenses. In fact, such a small object can be made in two materials only: a little rope and a ring!

Navy knot keyring to make oneself in rope and ring

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This is precisely what we propose to try with our two following tutorials that are inspired by the technique of knots (sailors, climbing and all other types that you find interesting)!

Make an elastic or rope keychain with a simple knot to make

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In this image a rope keychain model at the base of which we have a simple knot, to do in a few seconds, according to the steps illustrated below:

How to make a DIY rope keychain and ring with simple knot

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And, in this picture, a keychain made with a double eight knot, which will be quickly recognized by those who love climbing:

DIY keychain and accessory to wear with double eight knot

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You are not familiar with this type of node? Do not worry ! It is quite simple to perform, as you can see on the tutorial below:

DIY key ring tutorial and easy DIY idea with double eight knot

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Of course, you do not need to master every detail of knot art to make an original rope keychain. The proof: the two interesting little accessories on the picture below that are made of rope and metal ends. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a video tutorial that details the steps of their manufacture!

Creative project # 9: making a key ring with a metal ring and rope ends

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How to make a rope keychain and metal elements

* Photo and design by Sugar Cloth