I am a fairly boring gift giver, I am the self confessed queen of gift cards, but gift cards aren’t always appropriate to take along to a celebration or to exchange as part of a Kris Kringle – so my second fall back item is a bottle of wine (of course a nice bottle of sauce or olive oil etc would work equally as well). Of course I can’t just put the bottle into a bag as that would be way too boring, I love to add a bottle tag to the item to dress it up.
Bottle tags are very quick and easy to make as an A4 sheet of card stock will make 4 bottle tags. Score the A4 sheet at 7.5cm (or 3″) along the longest side, turn and cut into 4 strips at 7.4cm, 14.8cm & 22.2cm. Using a circle punch (I use the 1 3/4″ circle punch) I punch as far as I can into the smaller of the scored ends of the card stock strip, the punch is approximately the same width as the strip of card stock so I just guestimate the middle of it rather than lining it up exactly.
The bottle tag above is made using Old Olive ink, the Tag It stamp set and I added red glimmer paper and partially embossed a Very Vintage Designer button in gold embossing powder stuck it all together and it’s as simple as that.
Below is a super simple Christmas bottle tag using the Merry Little Christmas stamp set and the oval framelits, as you can see you can dress the tags up or leave them clean and simple – the choice is yours.
These two bottle tags were done for a local Wetland group who were raising money for projects and wanted to ‘dress up’ some donated bottles of wine they were raffling off – so myself and a friend made 20 tags to go with the wine.
I’d love to see any bottle tags that you make, if you have any queries or if the cutting instructions weren’t clear contact me and I’ll try to resolve any confusion.
