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This festive Faux Leather Stacked Butterfly Bag Tag made with a Cricut is the perfect Spring accessory for your bag, purse or keys!

In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to cut and assemble this bag tag using faux leather, a little fabric glue, and 6mm rivets. The SVG file is available in my shop if you want to make this project!

Ready to get started? Let’s dive into the materials and steps!

Step 1: Get the SVG Template

Step 2: Shop the Supplies

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Compatible Machines✅: Cricut Maker, Cricut Maker 3, Cricut Maker 4, Cricut Explore Air 2, Cricut Explore 3, Cricut Explore 4, Cricut Joy Xtra, Cricut Joy (with the 12 inch Joy mat)
Not Compatible Machines❌: none
Blade Used: Standard Fine Point Blade
Cut Setting Used✂️: Faux Leather (Paper Thin) with “More” pressure

• Faux Leather
• I used a combination of solid and printed faux leathers. For all the prints I ordered 9×12 sheets, Regular Print, Portrait Orientation.
  • Back layer – this pink solid
  • Peach butterfly – this peach solid for the bottom layer, this grid print for the top layer
  • Green butterfly – this mint green solid for the bottom layer, this green plaid for the top layer
  • Blue butterfly – this blue solid for the bottom layer, this blue dot for the top layer
  • Purple butterfly – this lavender solid for the bottom layer, this purple dot for the top layer
• Other Project Supplies
  • Carabiner Keyring or other keyring hardware
  • Rivets: 6mm x 6mm Rivets (includes rivet tools) and a hammer
  • Fabric or Craft Glue – I used Beacon Fabri-Tac
• Other Cricut Supplies
  • Blue Painters Tape
  • Small Curved Scissors
  • Purple Strong Grip Mat
  • Weeding Tool like a Pin Pen or like the one in the Cricut Basic Tool Set

🛒 To shop many of these supplies below in my Amazon storefront, click here.

Step 3: Make the Project

Set Up Your Design

1. Open a new canvas in Cricut Design Space.
2. Upload the SVG file for the Stacked Butterfly Bag Tag to your canvas.
3. Recolor all of the shapes to be the same color if you want to cut them on the same mat (optional).

Prepare to Cut

1. Click Make It.
2. Mirror your mat(s), since you’ll be cutting the faux leather face down.
3. Position your faux leather shapes apart on the mat if cutting from different prints.
4. Choose the Faux Leather (Paper Thin) setting with More pressure.

Cut the Faux Leather

1. Place the faux leather pretty side down on a Strong Grip (purple) mat.
2. Secure all edges with blue painter’s tape.
3. Load the mat into your Cricut.
4. Press the C button to begin cutting.
5. When the cut is complete, without unloading the mat, use a sharp tool to gently lift the edge and check the cut.
6. Repeat the cut if necessary by pressing the cut button again.
7. Once the cut is complete, unload the mat and remove the shapes.

Assemble the Bag Tag

1. Place the long back layer backside up on your work surface. Thread your keyring to the middle area.
2. Apply fabric glue on one half of the long shape. Fold over and press together. Place glued shape under a heavy book to dry for about an hour.
3. Push a 6mm rivet post through the middle hole in each of the butterfly layer pairs. Push the posts through the folded and glued base layer, starting with the largest butterfly pair in the bottom hole.
4. Place rivet caps onto the back of the posts.
5. Use rivet tools and a hammer to flatten the rivets and secure the layers together tightly.
6. After all the butterfly pairs are secured, apply one last 6mm rivet to the top hole in the faux leather base, between the top butterfly and the keyring. Hammer the rivet closed.

📺You can watch a video tutorial that shows how to apply 6mm rivets here.

Your Stacked Butterfly Bag Tag is complete! Enjoy this beautiful spring accessory! Where will you put your bag tag? Let me know in the comments!

Answers to your questions about making a Faux Leather Butterfly Bag Tag with a Cricut

Q: Which Cricut machines will cut faux leather?
A: You can cut faux leather with any of the current Cricut machines because they all cut faux leather with the standard fine point blade included with each machine. For this project you can use the Cricut Maker, Cricut Maker 3, Cricut Maker 4, Cricut Explore 5, Cricut Explore 4, Cricut Explore 3, Cricut Explore Air 2, the Cricut Joy Xtra or the Cricut Joy (for this project you’ll need the 12 inch long Joy mat).

Q: What tools do I need to assemble the rivet?
A: The rivets I used are 6mm x 6mm in size (meaning the cap is 6mm round and the post is 6mm long). The rivets I purchased came with the tools you need to add the rivets to the bag tag. You just need a household hammer.

Q: How do I get the SVG template for this project?
A: Get the SVG file from my SVG Shop here.

Until next time… and happy creating!

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