Leather SD Card Holder / Nintendo Switch Card Holder

Take with you only what you need! An elegant, eye-catching and perfekt solution to store your SD cards and Nintendo Switch cards. Fits perfect in the pocket, smells good and fills great in the hands. Okay, let us make one :)

Step 1: Materials and Tools

Materials

Leather of your choice (3 - 4 oz / 1.2 - 1.6 mm is my recommendation)

Tools

Cutter
Cutting mat
Scissors
Ruler
Hammer
Half round punches
Scratch awl
Wood slicker
Stitching chisel (5 mm is my choice)
Leather glue
Wing divider
2x needles
Sew thread (0.55 mm is my choice)
Beeswax block
Tokonole leather finish colorless (optional)
Sandpaper
Edge beveler
Lighter

Step 2: Print, Cut and Tracing Out the Pattern

Download free attached pattern, print and cut them out. Transfer the pattern on each leather piece. Use the scratch awl tool. Use the ruler, cutter and half round punches to cut the leather pieces out.

For inner round edges use half round punches.

Use the following printer setting:

Size: 100%

Paper size European: DIN A4

Paper size USA: US Letter

SD Cardholder Instructables.pdf
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Step 3: Glue the Leather Pieces Together

Glue the card pockets with the main part together.

Optional: You can sand and burnish the round inner edges. Use tokonole leather finish and the wood slicker to burnishing them.

Tipp: To remove the excess glue use a plastic card or metal ruler.

Step 4: Punching Holes and Sewing

At first punch holes on the middle stiching marks of the card pockets and sew them on the main part. For sewing i use the saddle stitch technique WITHOUT a stitching pony. HERE you can learn from "Corter Leather" how to do that.
Sand the outer sides.
Adjust 0.3 mm on the wing divider and mark the stiching lines (You are new on leather craft? Just search on YouTube for "How to use wing divider").
Punch the holes and sew the rest together. Finally snip and burn the sewing thread ends.

Step 5: Finishing the Edges

Cut a little bit leather off on the corners.
Sand the outer sides.
Use the edge beveler for taking off the sharp edges.
Burnish the edges. Use tokonole leather finish and the wood slicker to burnishing the edges. You can use water as well. You can find HERE a very useful tutorial from "Corter Leather".