Vintage Merry Christmas Seal SVG

About this design

This seal borrows from old general-store labels and wax seals. The edge is cut into a ring of small sawtooth points, like the crimped edge of a bottle cap. MERRY curves across the top and CHRISTMAS across the bottom in ornate capitals with wedge-shaped serifs and little decorative spurs, the kind of lettering found on Old West posters. Inside, a ring of round dots circles a simple three-tier Christmas tree topped with a gold star, and two small stars sit between the words.

The ornate capitals carry most of the character, so the rest of the design is kept plain on purpose.

Color layers

• Backing in dark pine green: a solid disc to the tips of the sawtooth edge
• Design in cream: the edge, ring, lettering, dots and tree
• Accents in gold: the treetop star and the two side stars

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 66 pieces, because each dot in the ring is its own small circle, and 10 cut-outs. The dots are large enough to cut cleanly, but they are easier to place if you transfer the whole design at once with a single sheet of transfer tape. The design passes our cut checks from about 5.5 inches wide.

Projects

• Mason jar lids for cookie mix gifts, in permanent vinyl.
• Kraft paper gift wrap with the design cut from white vinyl.
• Rustic signs on a slice of wood.
• Canvas bags for gift baskets.
• Coasters in a set of four.

Step by step: cookie-mix jar gifts

1. Lid inserts are usually 2.75 to 3.25 inches across, below the 4.5 inch cutting minimum, so print this one instead: download a PNG at that size at 300 DPI.
2. Print a sheet on matte sticker paper and cut the circles out with Print Then Cut.
3. Press one sticker onto each lid insert, smoothing out from the center.
4. For a bigger jar or a canister, cut the design in vinyl at 5.5 inches or more instead.
5. Add a tag with baking instructions and tie it with twine.

Color ideas

• Cream and gold on pine green, as shown
• Black on kraft brown for a stamped look
• Red on white for a peppermint feel

About the lettering

The capitals come from a free, open-licensed font and are already shapes in the file. The edge, dot ring and tree were drawn for this design.

Pairs well with

The Round Badge Christmas Tree is a simpler round tree design, and the Merry Christmas Circle Seal offers a cleaner, more formal seal.