From Santa Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

Children compare handwriting. Anyone who has ever been asked why Santa writes exactly like Mom will see the appeal of a tag that already says who sent it. From sits on the top line in rounded green letters, SANTA fills the lower half in much larger capitals, and a floppy red hat with a pompom has landed on the top right corner of the tag, poking out past the edge at a jaunty angle.

That overhanging hat changes the silhouette of an otherwise ordinary luggage tag, so it stands out in a heap of wrapped boxes.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 10 pieces and 9 cut-outs. One piece is the tag and hat together: small tabs bridge the cut lines so the crown, band and pompom stay joined to each other and to the tag, and the whole outline hangs in one piece from its string. The other nine are the letters of From and SANTA. The cut-outs are the string hole, one channel around each word, the centers of the o and the two A shapes, and three short slits left between the tabs in the hat.

The letters are separate pieces sitting in a channel carved out of the tag, and they need transfer tape or a backing card to hold their places. It passes our cut checks from about 3 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines in soft tan: a solid backing behind the whole tag
• Tag in cream: the luggage shape, notched where the hat lands
• Accents in bright red: all three parts of the hat
• Lettering in deep green: From and SANTA

The tabs exist only in Base and lines, so the colored layers stay clean.

Adding the red hat

1. Cut the solid file from cream cardstock at 3 to 4.5 inches wide and keep the big connected piece, hat shape included.
2. Cut it again from green, saving only the nine letters.
3. Cut the Accents layer from red and glue it over the matching hat shape, which hides the tabs.
4. Mount everything on a pale kraft backing cut to the full outer outline.
5. Fix the letters into their channels, then add a ribbon.

The printable route is simpler still: put the color file through Print Then Cut and cut around the outside.

Keeping the secret

• Cut these on a night when the children are asleep, and sweep up the scraps.
• Pick a wrapping paper that only ever appears on the big guy’s gifts.
• Leave the back blank, or add a child’s name in a disguised hand.
• Keep a separate stack for each child, so nobody opens the wrong box.

A white brim and pompom cut from glitter card are an easy change, since the Accents layer holds the hat as three shapes that can each take a different color.

Size guide

Below 3 inches, the small letter centers get fiddly, so go with the Print Then Cut method instead.

Pairs well with

The Reindeer Face Christmas Tag keeps the North Pole theme going, and our stocking designs match on the mantel.