Gift Box Shaped Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

A present labeled with a smaller present has a certain logic to it. The box is plain green with soft corners, a cream ribbon drops straight down the middle, and an oversized red bow spreads across the top with its two tails resting on the lid.

The string goes through a round hole at the upper left, clear of the ribbon. Flat colors and big shapes keep it legible on a crowded pile, and the blank reverse gives you the whole box for a note.

Color layers

• Base and lines in dark forest-black: all of the design, cut as a single underlayer
• Tag in pine green: the box on each side of the ribbon
• Picture in cream: the vertical ribbon
• Accents in bold red: the bow and its tails

Pieces and weeding

The solid file is 1 piece with 6 cut-outs. Small tabs bridge the thin lines around the ribbon and bow, so box, ribbon and bow all lift off the mat as a single shape, and it hangs from the hole with no glue involved. The cut-outs are one long line tracing the bow tails and the upper ribbon, two shorter slots lower down beside the ribbon, the two openings in the bow’s loops and the string hole. Weeding means picking out those six shapes and nothing else. For vinyl, transfer tape helps keep the thin lines straight. It passes our cut checks from about 1.5 inches wide.

Wrapping it up in paper

1. Pick a width of 3 to 4 inches and cut the solid file from green. At this point you already have a finished one-color tag.
2. For the full look, cut the file a second time from red and a third from cream.
3. Snip the bow free of the red copy and the ribbon free of the cream copy, cutting through their tabs.
4. Glue the ribbon over the green, following the cut lines, then lay the bow on top so its tails meet the ribbon.
5. For a stiffer tag, add plain card cut to the outer shape and punch through it at the hole.

When the cutting table is busy, or the tag has to be under 1.5 inches, print the color version and use Print Then Cut to run around the outside.

Size guide

Match it to the wrapping

Since it is a picture of a present, the tag looks especially good when it copies the real one. Glue leftover gift wrap to card before cutting, so the whole box comes out in that paper, and use the same ribbon on the parcel for the string. Or reverse the colors on purpose, with a green tag on red paper. Gluing a strip of striped or dotted scrapbook paper between the ribbon lines changes the whole look without changing any cut.

Pairs well with

The Stocking Shaped Christmas Tag uses the same three holiday colors, and the Do Not Open Until Christmas Tag brings a warning to go with it. There are other wrapping ideas in the Christmas gift SVG collection.