Simple Basic Card Holder

Made this holder for work to store numbers and notes, the little blank cards are used regularly in my place of employment, so are easily replaceable. This is adaptable to bank, identity or store cards and can be used to store phone numbers, addresses or business cards. I've seen customers come into our store asking for these, so you can make your own if you have the equipment or some nice hand sewing.

Card holder (ribbon decor)

Tools:

Food impulse sealer
70 micron CD sleeves (Higher micron if you want thicker and better quality)
Sewing machine or needle and thread with badawl or similar
2 Paper clips
5mm thick or less of scrap of ribbon around 8" long (optional)
Iron (optional with ribbon)
Leather or PU cover (optional)
Strong glue / Strong double sided tape (optional)

Tutorial:

1 Curl your CD sleeve to find the halfway mark, make a little crease at the top and bottom of that halfway mark. Insert your card to find where you want the base of your holder to end and make a crease where it ends. Do this to as many sleeves you need, but there should be too many otherwise your holder will not close, each sleeve will hold two cards (I'm using four sleeves for eight cards).

2 Align the creases in your impulse sealer (setting 4, varies on different sealers), seal each sleeve.

3 Cut off the bits you don't want, top and bottom.

4 Carefully align your sleeves in one direction and hold together with paper clips on each side.

5 Sew down the middle down the sealed line on sewing stitch length 4. If you are hand sewing, use the badawl and ruler to punch some holes for easier sewing.

If you want a cover you can add an extra sleeve and put in some coloured card or cut a piece of leather or PU and sew it with the sleeves or simply glue (shown after step 8, go up to step 4).

6 Fold the ends of your ribbon to double the length of the sleeve and iron it flat (This part is completely optional, you don't really need the ribbon).

7 Sew down each side of the ribbon sewing the inside of the holder first, if you have trouble sewing both sides at once. (If you don't like sewing, if you have some good double sided tape or glue to stick the ribbon, that will cover up the middle stitch line).

8 Close your card holder and ditch stitch along the ribbon (shown as blue dotted line on image), and your card holder is complete.