Santa Face Christmas Tag SVG

About this design

Most of this tag is beard. A wide, bumpy cream scallop fills the bottom two thirds, a peach oval peers out of the middle, and a floppy red hat tips its pompom out past the right edge. The outline is recognizable from the far side of the room even before you notice the two small eyes and the round red nose.

The string hole sits toward the left of the hat band. Santa himself provides all the decoration on the front, which leaves the back for writing who the present is for and, if you want to keep up appearances, who it is supposedly from.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 3 pieces and 6 cut-outs. The main piece is the whole outline: beard, hat band, crown and pompom, held to one another by small tabs across the thin cut lines, so it hangs from its string in one go. The other two are the face and the nose. The cut-outs are the channel around the face, the channel around the nose, the two eyes, the slit between band and crown, and the string hole. Face and nose are not attached to anything, so glue them to a backing card, or use transfer tape in vinyl. It passes our cut checks from about 1.5 inches wide.

Stacking the layers

1. Cut the solid file from cream and keep the large outline piece. Cut it again from peach or pale tan for the face, and once from red for the nose.
2. From the red copy, also snip the band, crown and pompom free at their tabs.
3. Glue the cream outline to sturdy dark or white card cut to the outer shape, then place the face in its channel; the eyes show the backing through them.
4. Lay the red hat parts over the cream ones, and finish with the nose.
5. Punch down through the band and the backing together, then tie on a loop of string.

Dark backing makes the eyes read as black dots with clean lines between each part. White backing looks softer, closer to a drawing.

Color layers

• Base and lines in deep blackish green: the whole design, cut as the base layer beneath the others
• Tag in cream: the beard
• Picture in peach: the face, with the eyes left open
• Accents in Christmas red: hat, band, pompom and nose

Turning it into an ornament

Glue two finished faces back to back around a loop of cord and the tag becomes a keepsake for the tree. Cotton batting cut to the beard shape, tucked between the layers, gives it some puff. Add a name in paint pen on the reverse, and it can come out of the box again every December.

Size guide

Under 1.5 inches, or whenever you would rather skip the glue, print the color file and use Print Then Cut.

Pairs well with

Team it with the Ho Ho Ho Christmas Tag for a Santa-themed pile, or the From Santa Christmas Tag, which has a matching red hat.