affinity designer Wine bottle neck tag / hanger

masterofninja · January 13, 2023

Hi all

First submission. I thought I'd share this wine bottle neck tag / hanger - it can be used in other bottle types if you wish!

My reasons for creating this is that I wished to send presents (bottles of wine) but reduce waste (Christmas wrapping paper is not recyclable apparently). Making your own wine bottle tag was a good compromise - and easily recyclable. You can get coloured paper from the shop, print the hangers, cut them out, and then use. Additional ways to customise that I have used are silver and gold coloured pens to go over some of the text.

You can change the text in the main box. I did have icons of gingerbread men and snowflakes around the text, but they were not free for me to share - however I think you can download your own icons and customise the tags as you want. Further it might be worth doing a test print, as you may need to customise the actual holes to fit over the bottle of wine.

I've put additional lines on the paper so if you have a paper guillotine to do sharp cuts of the paper or card you print these on. The holes for the wine bottles I fold over and cut. In future I'm going to see if I can get a punch cutter to make it quicker to cut out the holes.

I share these as free to use and customise, as long as any such customisations are themselves shared for free - i.e. don't sell this on!

This was created in Affinity Designer version 1.

Hope everyone gets some use out of these, and if there any comments do reply!

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jmwellborn · January 13, 2023

Welcome to the Forums, @masterofninja! Guess we are all set for Christmas 2024! Thank you. I was a bit puzzled at first, but then figured that I'd better color a wee bit of the stroke on one tag just to see what I had there. (Helps with scissors!) Just to be on the safe side, I opened your file in Designer V.1 first. When I opened it very successfully in Designer V2 the lines were beautifully visible without adding any black.

masterofninja · January 14, 2023

Glad you liked it. It's a nice touch for a present and saves wrapping paper.

The lines aren't thick to make them not noticable once cut. I printed on quite dark red paper, so once cut you'll never know those lines were there. If you do a lot of tags I would encourage getting a paper guillotine: the lines are actually for lining things up with one of these.

If you live in the UK my recommendation is Hobbycraft for nice paper/card and a guillotine. Still trying to work out how to obtain a suitable sized punch to make clean holes...

jmwellborn · January 14, 2023

@masterofninja i have a trusty, rusty “guillotine” known in years of yore as a paper cutter. Not sure it would enjoy trying to do the curve though. As for the suitable sized punch . . . . .