Spellbinders Crafty Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 19

December 19, 2025 - By mrbennett68

Day 19 –

Yea! More sentiments stamps today. Since most of these don’t seem to apply to dies that we have already opened, I am imagining the dies yet to come and how they relate to these sentiments.

For the tag today, I went back to one of my favorites, the goldfish and bowl. Although, I didn’t use the fishbowl, I envisioned an open water fish.

To create the wave and the seaweed, I used the wavy corner die from yesterday, day 18. the goldfish is from day 15. The sequins came from day 17, and I borrowed the sunshine from my stash, created with a punch by EK Success.

Tag Measurements – 2.5 x 4.25 inches

Assembly instructions –

Die cut the stitched tag from a bright medium blue cardstock scrap.
Die cut the wavy corner from bright light blue cartstock scrap.
Punch the sun from yellow cardstock scrap.
Attach the sun to the top of the tag and trim the edge.
Stamp the desired sentiment just under the sun with embossing ink, and heat emboss in white.
Select a piece if medium blue, approximately 3 x 3 inches, and wad it up to crinkle the paper. Carefully open and then lightly brush white ink pad across to give the paper some texture.
Die cut the bottom half of the stitched tag from the crinkled paper. Adhere to the tag.
Adhere the blue wave to the top of the crinkle paper to create the water top.
Ink blend a yellow/yellow orange/orange spot on white cardstock scrap, from which to die cut the goldfish.
Die cut the goldfish base and scales from the ink blended scrap.
Die cut the goldfish eye/face from blue.
Assemble the fish – Adhere the blue scrap to the back side of the fish face (eye). Adhere the scales to the fish base.
To create the seaweed, I selected two colors of green cardstock scrap (about 3 x 3 pieces). I cut one of the corner waves from each, but before taking the wave pieces off the die, used a piece of washi tape to keep them in place. I removed the die and them shifted the die away from the corner about a 1/8th inch and cut again. The result is several pieces of thin wavy paper pieces, of different lengths. I picked 3 or 4 of each color and attached to the bottom left of the tag to create a seaweed patch, underwater.
Adhere the fish to the tag on the right bottom, in the water.
Add sequins for bubbles as desired.
Add ribbon.