Working with leather is quite expensive, the materials cost much and you get a lot of small pieces that are hard to make useful. This week I have spent trying to make things out of these scrap pieces.
Small pieces put on silver coloured head pin and then dipped in plastic craft paint.
Triangular pieces from cutting circular pieces out of a square.
Punching holes, painting with craft paint and putting on a string.
Makes a pretty bracelet
Claws
A hairpin using the scraps from a kind of necklaces I make. Dyed and filled with glass pearls.
More earrings made ot of small pieces dipped in craft paint.
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I like your idea with the Earings made of small pieces dipped in craft paint. The hairpin looks nice too.
Jacqueline