Classic To and From Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

A pile of presents needs one tag that simply does the job, and this is the plain-spoken option: who it is for, who it is from, and a sprig of holly for good manners. The cream luggage shape has clipped left corners and a round string hole, with a slim line following the edge like the border on an old shipping label. Below the holly, TO and FROM sit in chunky green capitals, each trailing a thin cut line for a name.

All the letters are vector outlines, so your machine never has to guess at a typeface.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 11 pieces and 13 cut-outs. One piece is the tag, six are the letters, and the last four are holly: three leaves and one cluster of berries. The line near the edge is really four separate segments with short gaps at the middle of each side, and those gaps keep the rim joined to the panel so the whole tag hangs as one shape. The cut-outs are those four segments, the string hole, the two write-on lines, a channel around each word, the gap around the holly and the centers of the O, R and O.

Those letters are separate pieces resting in a channel carved out of the tag, so they need transfer tape or a backing card to stay put. The holly pieces are loose as well. It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines in soft tan: a solid backing behind the whole tag, which shows as the write-on lines and the thin edge line
• Tag in warm cream: the luggage shape with its rim
• Picture in pine green: the three holly leaves
• Accents in bright red: the berries
• Lettering in pine green: TO and FROM

Assembling it from cardstock

1. Download the solid file and size it 3.5 to 4.5 inches across.
2. Cut it from cream cardstock and keep the tag.
3. Cut it again from green for the letters and leaves, then once from a red scrap for the berries.
4. Trace the outer shape onto kraft card as a backing, so the channels and cut lines show up against the cream.
5. Glue the tag onto its backing, seat every small piece with a dot of glue, then thread twine through the hole.

Short on time? Print the color file on cardstock and run Print Then Cut for a single trip around the outside.

Writing on the tag

Cream stock takes ballpoint or fineliner happily. Rest your words just above each slit instead of on it, since a pen tip likes to catch in a cut edge. The back stays blank for anything longer than a name, and if one person is giving everything, you can fill in FROM on the whole stack before wrapping starts.

Size guide

Anything narrower than 3.5 inches is a job for Print Then Cut, which leaves no tiny letters to place.

Pairs well with

Swap in the Scalloped To and From Christmas Tag for round presents, or browse more holly designs to match your paper.