This is a copy of the little religious item that was carried by the army men in WWII made by me DIY

This is the photo album cover I use the plastic sheets on the inside for other projects.  You will see what I use this album for.

I took off the fake leather covers off the album, this will be cut up for this project.

I took the piece of leather looking material which you can see in this picture, this material is flipped over so I could write the size that you need to cut on it.  In this picture you can see the size you need to cut.

I then took a piece of material that I cut from an old sweatshirt of mine to the same size as the leather looking piece.  I did a quick stitch to hold both pieces together.  Make sure you sew the material on the side that is not the leather looking side.

I also cut two pieces of card type material to fit in two different spots on the material.  I made my pieces 1 3/4 inches X 2 9/16 inches.  You will be needing a space in the middle of them so you can close this up.

This picture is of the material from the sweatshirt that I cut up.

These are the two different square pieces I cut for this project.  You could also use a card that you had, to make these two pieces as long as the card is sturdy.

In this picture I sewed a decorative stitch around the edges of the squares and sewed some religious items onto them.  

This is the leather looking material with the sweatshirt material on it, I put a little red stitching around it. I also sewed a cross onto it, when I sewed the cross on I sewed it onto the sweatshirt material and made sure I didn't go through the leather looking material.  If you look on the point on top I added half of the snap for keeping it closed which you will see.

This is a close up of the piece of the snap I added.

I then glued down the two square card boards that have the religious items sewed on them.  Make sure when you glue down the squares that you can fold it up.  The other part of the snap needs to be sewed to the outside on the leather looking material as you will see in the next photo.

I know it's hard to see exactly where this snap goes so what I did was close up the leather pouch so I could see where it goes so you can see where it needs to be sewed on.

This is what this looks like when it is closed and snapped shut.  If you look at my post before this one you will see the real antique one from WWII that I copied off of.  Make sure you read my blog before this one so you can get some more information for doing this project.  This would be something nice to send out to an army man or woman, navy, coast guard etc.

This project could have items in it that has a meaning to the service men and woman.  Just like with WWII soldiers its nice to have a religious item that you can carry around with you.  An antique item that can be brought back and cherished and also to let them know you are not forgotten God is with you!