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Day 7 – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For day 7 we have our first stencil set of the calendar. A set of 4 different butterfly patterns. Two patters are of open butterflies and 2 are closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right away I knew I wanted to cut one of the butterflies out and adhere to a tag, but it took a while to settle on how the background would come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the background I used a technique to create my own patterned paper and cut tags out where the pattern matched what I wanted on the tag.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Tag Measurements<\/strong> – 2.5 x 4.25 inches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assembly instructions<\/strong> – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Cut 8.5 x 11 inch white cardstock in half<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Select 4 colors and 1 neutral color per your preference. I selected some spring colors in violet, teal, blue green and blue with dark grey as the neutral color.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • With the white paper laying horizontal, run the edge of the ink pad left to right to create streaks of color. it should not be solid color, but light streaks. I used a small square ink pad instead of a full sized inkpad. Repeat with a single row per color top to bottom. Let dry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Place butterfly stencils at random and brush ink onto stencil. One color for each pattern. I found that a small overlap of butterflies was best.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Using dark grey ink, stamp random words (THANKFUL) or textures (script and stripes). Less is more in this step.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Splatter white paint\/ink across the half sheet of paper.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Die cut stitched tag from inked paper. I cut about 6 tags total.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • On velum, use embossing ink on one of the butterfly stencils. Heat emboss with iridescent embossing powder. Cut the butterfly, fussy cut, with a good-sized margin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cut strip of vellum 1\/2 inch wide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Stamp sentiment (day 2 stamp set) with embossing ink, heat emboss in silver detail embossing powder.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Adhere sentiment strip across the bottom of the tag, adhering only on the back of the tag so the velum seems to float on the top.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Adhere cut vellum butterfly to the tag, off center to the right and tilted to the left. Apply glue only to the body of the butterfly. Use a bone folder or a pen to roll the wings to give them lift from the tag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Add ribbon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Supplies<\/strong> –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Spellbinders 2025 Crafty Advent Calendar<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Stampin’ Up White Cardstock<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Unknown Vellum Sheets<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Pinkfresh Ink cubes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Stampin’ up Emboss Powder, Iridescent Ice<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Personal Stamp Exchange Silver Embossing Powder<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Heidi Swapp Stamp Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Spellbinders Precision Glue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Day 7 – For day 7 we have our first stencil set of the calendar. A set of 4 different butterfly patterns. Two patters are of open butterflies and 2 are closed. Right away I knew I wanted to cut one of the butterflies out and adhere to a tag, but it took a while to settle on how the background would come together. For the background I used a technique to create my own patterned paper and cut tags out where the pattern matched what I wanted on the tag. Tag Measurements – 2.5 x 4.25 inches Assembly instructions – Supplies –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[52,49,44,51],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-occasion","tag-crafty-advent-calendar","tag-spellbinders","tag-stampin-up","tag-tags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1118-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampandstorybymaile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}