Two different ideas for presenting gifts of wine, beer, or soda. These are great for holiday gifts or party hosts, for Thanksgiving gatherings or Christmas or New Year’s. These are welcome gifts but always awkward to wrap! Today we’ll talk about decorated cardboard carriers and tags for the bottle neck.
Short process video: https://youtu.be/NSPsuCefrDg
You can buy the carriers plain, but generally you can get them for free wherever you are buying the beverages to put in the carrier. Check your grocery store. The free carriers typically display store branding rather than coming as a blank slate, but I found that easy to cover with acrylic paint or paper.
I’m linking to Amazon plain carriers because they sell low quantities, but these are also available at Uline or Papermart in quantities of 25 and up.
Drink carrier, for 4 20-oz cups, pack of 30 for $24.99 https://amzn.to/3tJsjdG These are good for shorter cans, such as catering minis of Coca-Cola.
Six-pack carrier, for 12-oz bottles or cans, pack of 10, kraft or white, for $16.99 kraft https://amzn.to/46GWnoH These will hold 16-oz plastic bottles of soda.
Four-pack carrier, for 750 ml bottles, pack of 10, kraft or white, $24.99 https://amzn.to/472AArh These will hold 32-oz or 1 liter plastic bottles of sparkling water.
Six-pack carrier, for 750 ml bottles, pack of 10, kraft or white, $29.99 https://amzn.to/497dAcz These will hold 32-oz or 1 liter plastic bottles of sparkling water.
DIES
Look through your stash of holiday products. The surface of these carriers is generally not smooth enough for stamping, so dies or stickers are ideal.
For decoration, I used die cuts from Sizzix Bigz Tim Holtz Festive Stems #664757
From Sizzix on Amazon $23.81 https://amzn.to/3S9ldco
From Sizzix on their own website $34.99 https://www.sizzix.com/664757/sizzix-bigz-l-die-festive-stems
and Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz Holiday Brushstroke #665578
From Sizzix on Amazon $8.93 https://amzn.to/3tFy245
From Scrapbook .com $19.77 https://www.scrapbook.com/store/sz-665578.html
As usual, buying older products from Sizzix on Amazon is MUCH LESS.
1.75” circle punch from Stampin Up. Corner rounder is 1/2” from Zutter.
TAGS
You can adjust to your specific gift, but these are the dimensions I used that seemed pretty universal.
Tag is 2.5” wide and 8.5” tall, score at 2.5” and cut hole for neck in small end. Hole for neck is 1.75”. That’s just the size punch I happened to have, I think anything 1.5” – 2” would be fine.
This is a great opportunity to use off-cuts of holiday patterned paper and gift wrap. Tags are the right surface for stamping!
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