Do Not Open Until Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

Some presents arrive weeks early, and some people cannot be trusted near them. This tag says what needs saying in three lines of bold capitals: DO NOT OPEN, UNTIL, CHRISTMAS. It is a wide luggage shape with clipped corners and a round hole for string or ribbon, sized so the warning can be read from across the room.

The lettering is already turned into shapes, so there is no font to install. The centers of letters such as O, P, R and A have been opened up on purpose, because those small spaces are usually what stops a lettered tag from cutting at a useful size.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 24 pieces and 11 cut-outs. One piece is the tag; the other 23 are the letters, each sitting in a channel carved out of the tag around its word. The cut-outs are those channels, the centers of the letters and the string hole. Because the letters are loose pieces, they need something to hold them in place: transfer tape for vinyl, or a backing card for paper. It passes our cut checks from about 4.5 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines in soft tan: a solid backing behind the whole tag
• Tag in cream: the tag itself
• Lettering in red: all three lines of words

Making it from cardstock

1. Set the design to 4.5 to 5 inches wide and download the solid file.
2. Cut it from red cardstock with a fresh blade.
3. Cut a plain tag the same size from cream cardstock, using the outer shape only.
4. Glue the red tag onto the cream one, then set each letter back into its channel with a dot of glue.
5. Punch through the hole in the backing and thread a ribbon.

For a faster version, print the color file on cardstock and use Print Then Cut, which leaves you only the outer shape to cut.

Where it works best

• Early deliveries, stuck on the box before it goes under the tree.
• Advent gifts that are meant to wait on the mantel.
• Children’s stacks, where a warning adds to the fun.
• Parcels by mail, cut large and taped to the top.
• A big box lid in adhesive vinyl, as a reusable decal.

Size guide

Below 4.5 inches the letter centers get too small to weed, so use Print Then Cut for anything smaller.

Color ideas

• Green lettering on kraft paper for a rustic look
• White lettering on a navy tag
• Red glitter cardstock for the words, on a plain white tag

Pairs well with

The Naughty and Nice Christmas Tags keep the joke going, and the Classic To and From Christmas Tag has room to write a name.