Reindeer Face Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

Antlers do most of the work here. They branch up from a long brown face that looks straight at you, with an ear out to each side, two small eyes and one round red nose that gets noticed first in a pile of presents.

The reindeer stands on the right of a cream luggage tag. Everything to the left of it belongs to the string: a round hole, the clipped corners, and a stretch of bare card between the hole and the face. It reads well on a kid’s parcel, and the nose can be swapped for glitter paper without touching anything else.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 7 pieces and 5 cut-outs. One piece is the tag. The others are the head, two antlers, two ears and the nose, and they all sit inside a single large channel carved from the tag around the outline of the animal. The cut-outs are that channel, the string hole, the two eyes and the ring around the nose. Because the face parts are separate, they rely on a backing card or transfer tape to stay in position. Antlers are the slimmest parts, so lift them slowly. It passes our cut checks from about 2.5 inches wide.

Size guide

Below 2.5 inches the picture gets too fine for a blade, so switch to Print Then Cut and cut only the outside edge.

Color layers

• Base and lines in very dark green: the full design, cut as the first layer
• Tag in soft cream: the luggage tag
• Picture in chocolate brown: head, antlers and ears
• Accents in cherry red: the nose

Assembling the paper version

1. Cut the solid file from cream cardstock and save the tag.
2. Cut it again from brown and keep the head, antlers and ears, then a third time from a scrap of red for the nose.
3. Glue the cream tag to a dark card cut to the same outline, so the channel reads as a drawn line around the animal.
4. Work from the head outward, placing the ears and antlers last.
5. Punch through the backing at the hole and add twine.

Writing on it

Most of the note goes on the reverse, which has no cuts through it once the backing is on. Use a ballpoint or fine felt pen, since gel ink can smear on coated card. A single initial also fits in the bare space between hole and antlers, which helps when a family has several parcels under one tree. For a classroom, cut the tags in a batch and write only the first names.

Color ideas

• Kraft tag with a dark brown reindeer and gold nose
• Pale blue tag with a white reindeer and red nose
• Green tag with a tan face

Pairs well with

Pair it with the From Santa Christmas Tag on the children’s gifts, or the Ugly Sweater Gift Tag for something sillier.