Christmas Cookie Jar SVG

A jar with nothing to hide

Every kitchen has one shelf that small hands keep finding, and this is the container sitting on it. The shape is deliberately chunky: broad shoulders in sky blue, a short neck, a wide red lid and a ball of a knob on top. Across the belly runs a rounded cream label with one word on it, so nobody has to lift the lid to know what is inside.

The big flat areas take vinyl well, and the label gives the eye a clear place to land.

Pieces and weeding

Twelve pieces and 4 cut-outs make up the solid file. That is the jar, its neck, the lid, the knob, the label and the seven letters of the word. Those letters sit loose inside the label area, so they will wander unless something carries them. Vinyl wants transfer tape and paper wants a backing card, with the label placed first. It passes our cut checks from about 4.5 inches wide.

What each layer does

• Dark cocoa brown forms Base and lines, a full solid backing that peeks out in the outlines and along a fine edge around the whole jar
• Warm cream is Cream icing, used only for the label
• Bright red is Red icing, covering the lid and the knob
• Sky blue is Blue icing, for the jar body and neck
• Deep cranberry red is Lettering, which goes straight onto the cream label with no brown beneath it

Branding a home bakery

Selling at a holiday market or filling orders from your own oven? This dresses up the boxes without designing a logo.

• Make bakery box seals by running the color file through a printer loaded with sticker paper.
• Cut kraft card hang tags at 4.5 inches and write the flavor and date on the back.
• Add it to order forms and price cards on the stall.
• Use it on a shop apron in layered iron-on, large on the bib.

Because the word on the label is generic, the same artwork works for every flavor you bake, and you only need to change what you write on the tag.

Around the house

A vinyl version looks at home on the outside of a canister or treat tin, sized to fit the flat front. It also makes a cheerful pantry door sign, a recipe binder cover and a friendly front for a cookie exchange invitation. Cut in felt, the big simple shapes work as an appliqué on a tea towel or potholder, where the broad blue body is easy to stitch around.

Size guide

Narrower than 4.5 inches, the capitals on the label get too fine to weed. Small stickers are better made with Print Then Cut.

Recoloring

Try a mint jar with a chocolate lid for a soda-fountain feel, or swap everything for white and silver for a frosted window display. Leaving the label cream keeps the word easy to read in either.

Pairs well with

Stand it beside the Rolling Pin and Cookie Cutters on a kitchen wall, or fill the rest of the sheet with the Christmas Cookie Set.