Today I’m really pleased to be reviewing a lovely craft kit from Artisans.

I love a craft kit, when everything you need to try something new in right there for you in a cute little package, count me in! So when Artisans asked if I’d like to try out one of their leather craft kits I jumped at the chance. Working with leather is not something I’ve got any experience of so a kit is definitely a great way to go.

This kit has been provided to me as a gift from Artisans in exchange for my honest review.

The Artisans kit arrived in sweet little glassine envelope and each contained everything I needed to make a classy leather keyring. All I needed of my own was a pair of scissors to cut the cord and a little pot of water to burnish the leather.

There were two cords to choose from. I went for the tan colour to match my leather. I figured if I messed up the stitching a little it would be less noticeable! I needn’t have worried, it was very simple to make the leather keyring and quite hard to go wrong. There is a QR code in the package that takes you straight to the instructions, or you can look on the Artisan website under resources.

I felt a teeny tiny bit like Suzie on The Repair Shop as I learnt to lock the needle and burnish the leather! (I’m not sure if anyone not in the UK will know The Repair Shop, it’s an utterly fabulous BBC show where people bring their old treasures to be renovated by experts and Suzie is the leather work expert. It’s the most lovely show, if you get chance, I’d highly recommend it.)

Anyway, back to my leather keyring kit. It took about 15 minutes to make this leather keyring, I’m so happy with how it turned out. Classy is the best word I can think of to describe it.

One side of the keyring is embossed with the words “personally crafted” and a bee, the other side is plain. I like that, it makes the finished keyring perfect to either keep for yourself or gift to someone else.

Would you like to try making a leather keyring? Of course you would! These little kits are available from Artisans for £15, but I have one in dark brown to give away.

To enter follow the instructions in the rafflecopter box below. Remember as always with this kind of giveaway each entry is a two step process - do the thing, then tell the rafflecopter that you’ve done the thing by clicking that little grey box at the bottom right of each entry method that says “I visited” or “I tweeted” etc. An easy way to check to see if your entry has gone through is to note how many entries are showing before you start and how many after.

Artisans have several different leather craft kits available and they post worldwide, check out their website for details.

This giveaway is open worldwide, the winner will be contacted after the closing date for their postal address. None of the email addresses given for the giveaway will be kept or added to any mailing lists of course, they are purely to allow the winner to be contacted initially.

Good luck!