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Make a Leather Cash Envelope – Free PDF Pattern

Download a free leather cash envelope pattern in print-at-home PDF format. This is a straightforward one-piece build — cut, fold, and stitch — and one of the more beginner-friendly projects on the site. If you’ve made a wallet before, this is easier. If this is your first leather project, it’s a solid place to start.

The pattern includes two flap styles: a rounded flap and a peak flap. Same construction either way — just pick the look you want before you cut. Both versions are sized to hold US bills laid flat without folding. Letter and A4 print formats included.

If you’d prefer the editable source files, check out the Laser Ready / Source Files link below.
Note: Be sure to print at 100% scale for accurate sizing.

What You’re Making…

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Choose how you want to build it

This pattern is available in a few different formats depending on how you want to work. Grab the free PDF to print and cut at home, download the source files if you’re setting up a laser cutter, or pick up the acrylic template set if you want to skip the setup entirely.

Start with the free project pattern, or choose a ready-to-use format that saves setup time.

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Laser-Ready / Source FilesDigital files

Laser-Ready / Source Files

$5

Ready-to-use files for cutting software, customization, and skipping manual tracing.

  • Editable
  • No tracing
  • Ready to cut
Get the digital files
Acrylic TemplateReusable tool

Acrylic Template

$21

A reusable, precision-cut template for faster layouts and consistent repeat builds.

  • Precision cut
  • Reusable
  • Repeat builds
Get the acrylic template

The free download is still available on this page.

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Free Cash Envelope Pattern - 1.47 MB

Usage Note: You are free to use this design to create and even sell the end product. However, you cannot redistribute this template in any form.

If you need any general assistance with how our patterns work, check out our How To Use MAKESUPPLY Leather Templates Guide!

Video Instructions

▶️ Watch the build along video instructions on YouTube

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Leather Selection

When making this leather cash envelope, you can use a wide range of leathers.

For thickness, we recommend around 1.4-2.4mm (about 3.5–5 oz). You have a good amount of wiggle room for this project. However, we don’t suggest pushing much past the 2.4mm range as it gets increasing difficult to fold the leather at the seam properly. This is especially true if you’re using a more firm leather like the natural vegetable tanned leather we used in the video.

2mm (4oz) is the perfect thickness for this project.

In the photo examples we used two diffierent types of vegetable tanned leather. The green leather is Buttero (Conceria Walpier) in thickness 2.2mm. The natural color (also seen in the build along video) is actually a tooling leather available on Amazon in thickness 4-5oz (2 – 2.4mm). The leather quality was not the best but for the price we couldn’t complain.

Here are a couple of options available from Amazon that we would consider suitable for this project:

Hardware Selection

This design requires a closure which can be either snap fasteners, magnet, or button studs. In the photos and video we opted for Antique Brass snaps. The ones we used came in a little kit with the setting tools and a hole punch that is perfectly sized for the snaps. Not the highest quality hardware, but got the job done. These little hardware kits are a great place to start if you’re a beginner.

We recommend using 12.5mm or 15mm caps.

Guidelines of Template Usage

We put a lot of time and effort into producing these templates, videos, and blog posts. Please do not distribute the template you have purchased from Makesupply. It’s not cool and hurts our feelings (CRY EMOJI). However, you are free to do whatever you want with the end product you create using the template.