Noel Vintage Christmas Tag SVG

Why it looks old-fashioned

Scooped corners are the giveaway. Apothecary bottles, seed packets and old linen boxes all carried labels with those little bites taken out of each corner, and borrowing the shape is what gives this tag its period feel. NOEL fills the middle in tall, heavy cream capitals, with a gold rule beneath, broken at its center by a single star. A hole at the top edge takes the string, and a thin line runs around the inside of the outline.

That inner line is really four separate strokes. Short breaks at the middle of each long and short side, one of them around the hole, tie the rim to the panel so the label remains a single sheet of card.

What the cutter produces

Expect 8 pieces and 8 cut-outs from the solid file. One piece is the label. Four are the letters N, O, E and L, and the other three are the rule: a bar to the left, a bar to the right and the star between them. The cut-outs are the channel around the word, the channel around the rule, the four strokes of the inner line, the string hole and the center of the O. Letters and rule pieces come away loose, so transfer tape or a backing card has to hold them. It passes our cut checks from about 3 inches wide.

Layers in the color file

• Base and lines: dark green-black, the entire design cut as a base
• Tag: rich holly green, the label
• Accents: warm gold, the two bars and the star
• Lettering: soft cream, NOEL

An aged paper version

Green cardstock with a matte finish looks closest to an old printed label. After cutting, glue the label to a cream sheet, trim around the outline with scissors, and set the letters back in their channel. Gold shimmer paper for the bars and star gives a small lift without looking modern. If you would rather stay flat, a printed copy cut with Print Then Cut needs one pass around the scooped outline and no assembly at all.

Paper choice changes the mood a lot here. Try swapping the green for oxblood or a dark teal through the color guide, keeping the cream and gold.

Dressing the parcel

• Brown paper and a double wrap of cotton string, with the label lying flat on top
• A wine bottle, the string looped around the neck
• Old sheet music or newsprint as the wrapping, so the green stands out
• A linen drawstring bag closed with a strip of torn fabric
• Stacked books tied together, label tucked under the knot

Widths to cut

Under 3 inches the file falls outside what we consider safe to cut, so print a smaller one on cardstock instead.

Reusing it

Glued onto heavy chipboard and hung by its hole, the label makes a flat tree ornament that can come back out next December.

Pairs well with

Joy Arched shares the thin inner line, and the Special Delivery tag keeps the old postal mood going.