If you’re looking for a small token for Valentines day or anytime, here’s cute little heart keyring you can make while saving the planet!  OK, that might be a little extreme but it does use up a plastic lid, which hopefully you grabbed by digging in your neighbors trash… those darned non-earth caring people.  I won’t mention where I got my lid but they make the cutest little keyrings rather than adding to our bulging land fills. And if you’re looking to gain even more positive Karma, place the keyring in our lovely little Soda Bottle Pillow Box. And if you’re looking to increase your Karma with the person you’re giving it to, attach a key to a new car.  Just saying.

Heart Keyring Supplies

• Plastic Lid (butter lid or other flat plastic items etc)
• Scraps fabric or burlap
• OR Washi Tape
• Keyring loop
• Mod Podge (protects and helps water proof it)
• Small hole punch
• Optional: Crop a Dile Eyelet Punch  I had just received one of these and wanted to test it out so I used it for one of the hearts.

Pattern Download

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Instructions

Gather your supplies. For this first heart we’re using fabric.

Choose the size of heart you want to make from our free printable patterns.

Cut out a heart from the plastic lid.

Trim the end a little so it’s not a sharp point.

I used my plastic heart as a pattern for the fabric. I used a tight weave burlap for one side. You can cut your other fabric at the same time if you want.

Add a generous amount of Mod Podge on one side of your plastic.

Place the burlap on.

Add a little extra Mod Podge on the edges to keep it from unraveling.

For the ring holder, take a small piece of fabric and cut it approximately 1/2″ wide and 2 1/2″ long. Coat it lightly with Mod Podge.

Fold it over.

Bend it over and trim it to about 1 1/2 to 2″. You just want a large enough loop to slip your ring through but also enough to glue under the fabric on your heart.

On the other side of the heart you will add another piece of fabric. If you have not cut it out yet do so with your pattern.

Glue the end of your loop onto the back of your heart using Mod Podge, then cover the entire back of the heart with Mod Podge.

Press your fabric down over the heart. Once it dries you can also give it another coat of Mod Podge for added gloss and protection.

You can now slip your ring into the loop.

All ready for keys!

For the next heart we used the lid from a plastic egg carton.

We traced the heart on.

For this heart we added strips of Washi tape touching each other. Once they are on we cut around the heart where we had drawn.

Remember to round the tip a little so that it’s not sharp.

Turn your heart over and apply Washi tape to the back just as you did on the front.

Trim off the extra Washi tap around your heart.

Coat each side with Mod Podge and let it dry between coats.

You can punch a small hole into the corner of the heart to hold the ring. I had just received this nifty Crop a Dile Eyelet Punch so I decided to try it out for the first time on this heart.

It’s a pretty neat little gadget and you can use at least two sizes of eyelets. Punch the hole.

Insert the eyelet, which comes in every color of the rainbow.

And clamp. Done!

I admit it’s cool and does give it a more professional finish but had I not had this, I’d have just used a 1/8″ hole punch.

Make a heart keyring as a gift for Valentine’s Day or any day! This upcycle uses a plastic lid, a split key ring & some fabric or Washi tape & Mod Podge!