Instructions

Instructions for printing:

1. If you want to print the template on a piece of paper and cut out your template and material by hand, use the PDF file.
2. Print on 8.5”x11” letter size paper, portrait orientation and normal (or as-is) print size.
3. Do not change the print size to “fit to page”, change the scale, or make it borderless unless you want to make it bigger.  I don’t know how it would turn out if you print it larger or smaller, I have only tested the template at the size it is.
4. After printing, measure the square with a ruler to make sure it is 1" so you know the template printed at the correct size.
5. Cut out the paper template and trace the pattern onto the back of your leather or faux leather and cut out the shape.
6. Add the name and number by hand with permanent marker, using embroidery, or with pre cut letters or numbers.
7. Poke the ink pen or needle through the template in each dot around the perimeter if you want to mark the holes before stitching it together. 
8. Feed the leather through the D ring if using.
9. Fold the leather in half and match the ends together. 
10. Thread the needle with the thread or floss and beginning on one side of the D ring or top edge of the narrow part if using the key fob hardware, stitch the two pieces together using the ink dots or holes from the needle as a guide. 
11. Tie off the thread.  
12. Add the key fob hardware if using instead of the D ring.

Instructions for using a cutting machine: 

1. When importing the file into your design software, draw a 1” box in your software to compare the size of the 1” square in the file.  If it isn’t the same size, select all of the parts of the imported file and grab the corner of the bounding box and drag it smaller or larger until the 1” box in the file matches the 1” box you created in your software.  
2. Once the design is the correct size you can ungroup it and drag away any text or parts that you won’t be cutting. 
3. Select the template with the holes and all of the holes and group them together so they don’t accidentally get separated.
4. The solid template shape is to be cut out of your finished material, leather, faux leather, etc.  
5. The template with the holes in it is supposed to be cut out of paper or card stock to align the name and number if adding and to mark where to stitch.
6. Grab the oval and place it on your design screen.  Type your text and numbers and use this oval as a template to size your text and numbers.  Align your design in the oval and leave the oval when you send it to cut.  This will create an oval that matches the oval in the paper template for quick and easy placement of the vinyl on your material to press on with your iron or heat press.
7. After you cut your vinyl, trim off outside the oval and weed off the excess vinyl 
8. Place the template on your cut out leather/faux leather and place your weeded vinyl where it belongs. 
9. Hold the vinyl in place and remove the template.  
10. Iron or press the vinyl in place.
11. Once the text and numbers are added, place the paper template back on the leather/faux leather and using the heat or water erasable ink pen, mark a dot in each hole around the perimeter of the leather cut out. 
12. Feed the leather through the D ring if using.
13. Fold the leather in half and match the ends together. 
14. Thread the needle with the thread or floss and beginning on one side of the D ring or top edge of the narrow part if using the key fob hardware, stitch the two pieces together using the ink dots as a guide. 
15. Tie off the thread.  
16. Add the key fob hardware if using instead of the D ring.