Are you thinking about what to give to your friends or acquaintances for the holiday? Present them with a bottle of good alcohol. How to present a gift beautifully? Make your own bottle labels. The result will be not just a gift, but a very original present. Read below for ideas on how to make a label.
Printed picture
The easiest way to make bottle labels with your own hands is to decorate them with a beautiful image. You can draw a picture by hand or print it on a printer. The label should be selected depending on the occasion. If you are going to a girl's birthday party, you should decorate a bottle of wine with an image of flowers. And if the present is made for a man, then you can print a picture of a car or a photo of the birthday boy. Make such a gift for parents too. For example, decorate a bottle with a drawing from your grandson.
Gift for a child
Do you think that only bottles of alcohol can be decorated? Nothing like this. You can even decorate a bottle of soda. You should select the appropriate drawing. A DIY bottle label for children should be made from a bright picture. Choose an image of a cartoon character or a cute drawing of a plush toy. In Photoshop, you can add funny inscriptions or decorative elements to the label, for example, stars or hearts. You should also place the drawing in a beautiful frame.
New Year label
It is not customary to go to visit empty-handed. And even more so. What to give to friends? Give them a bottle of good wine. Doesn't she look very presentable? Complete it with a bottle label. It's easy to make it with your own hands. Choose a beautiful picture or print one of the options above. Carefully cut out the design and glue it to double-sided tape or PVA. You can complement this decor with colored ribbons, pine cones and other New Year’s paraphernalia.
3D label
A bottle of expensive muscatel can be decorated in an extravagant way. You should make a three-dimensional label. It can consist of either cardboard or birch bark. How to make a bottle label with your own hands? Take the base and cut out a rectangle from it. In the center we lay out a drawing of a grape branch using voluminous beads. We cut out a couple of green leaves from felt and attach them to the desired place. All that remains is to glue beautiful ribbons on top and bottom. You can tie a bow out of them. You can attach a label to the bottle using gold fishing line or thin thread.
wedding label
On the most solemn day of your life, you want only exquisite things to be around. Therefore, special attention is paid to decor. Today it is fashionable to make beautiful wedding glasses, decorating them with rhinestones, beads and ribbons. It is worth thinking about the champagne label. It's very easy to do it yourself. The label is made as follows. The graphic program combines designs of flowers, rings and other wedding paraphernalia. The names of the newlyweds are placed in a beautiful frame. When the composition is built, all that remains is to print the image. Before gluing a homemade label, it is advisable to remove the one that is already on the bottle.
Original New Year's gift
Making a bottle label is very simple. To do this, print out the template shown above on thick paper. Now it should be cut out and then decorated. What can you put on a label? Yes, anything. You can buy beautiful stickers or dimensional letters.
Small artificial flowers also look original. You can even write a New Year's message by hand. If you're giving away more than just a bottle of alcohol, consider making the label in the same style as the packaging for the main gift. And then your work will definitely not go unnoticed.
Label on the bottle This is an original and effective gift that is suitable for many occasions. At weddings they often, constantly order the so-called “ Wedding champagne” designed especially for newlyweds. A photo of the bride and groom is inserted into the label, a congratulatory text is written, and the wedding date is added. Traditionally, many competitions are held at weddings and it is popular to give a bottle of champagne as a prize. holiday label. Or for a birthday or anniversary, you can give the birthday person a bottle of cognac or vodka with original cool label made especially for him.
The production of such labels is done in two ways: industrial printing of batches of bottle labels and orders of 1 piece in photo laboratories. Obviously, the label will cost less in printing houses, but they will take on a larger batch. It makes sense for them to take at least 10-100 pieces. In photo laboratories or photo salons, of which there are a lot everywhere, such a service is available and it must be said that it is not cheap. 1 complete set for one bottle costs 500 rubles. The complete set of labels is the front part (front), back part (back), and top (necklace). The price is a little high considering the obvious ease of making this bottle labels. This cost is not due to the greed of photo salon workers, but rather due to the large amount of time spent on designing such a label and especially on approval by clients. Because most often clients come to order without prepared photographs ( “I put 150 photos onto a flash drive! Let’s take a look and choose which one is suitable!”) and always come without prepared text (“ Oh! And you can also write something on the bottle labels!”). Therefore, clients in photo salons sit for a very long time, select, change and redo the approved label again from scratch many times. This label cost is justified. But you can make the label yourself, for free, paying only for the paper. If you also have a printer for printing photos, then you shouldn't have any problems at all. You can start your own small souvenir business.
To make your own bottle label you will need:
- Photoshop program or any other photo editor.
- Low to medium skills in Photoshop or any other photo editor.
- Glossy self-adhesive paper.
- A photo printer or the ability to print on this paper somewhere.
- Ready label template:
Creating a bottle label in Photoshop.
1. I recommend immediately buying the bottle on which you will glue the label. You need to know the label dimensions. It will be very sad when the created label cannot be pasted on the bottle or the old label is visible. Ideally, it is necessary that the new one completely covers the old one. Therefore, buy a bottle and take measurements with a ruler. Create a new document in Photoshop. Standard size champagne labels this is 12 cm by 8.2 cm. I recommend making the file a little larger to cover the old label with a completely new one.
2. Fill it with any background and insert a photo.
3. You can find a lot of clipart in png format on the Internet. With a transparent background. And decorate the label by inserting different flowers and frames into it.
4. Add text. You can play with colors and fonts for better readability.
5. For the backdrop we do the same. We come up with an original text. The design can be taken from the front label that has already been made. It’s even better - they should be in the same style.
6. It’s more difficult with a necklace. This is not a boring rectangle and it is already difficult to create a template from scratch. A higher level of Photoshop proficiency is required. You can copy this photo and circle it, and then adjust the dimensions.
I can post a template in psd for creating a necklace from which I make them myself if there are any difficulties in creating it yourself. Write in the comments.
Of course, the label turned out so-so, but I didn’t try too hard. Found an old one.
7. Create a blank sheet of A4 size (21 cm by 29.7 cm). It is important to set the resolution to 300.
Open the finished label and transfer them to this sheet. Here you can check the dimensions, correct them and adjust them one last time before printing.
You can print! Or we save the file in a jeep and take it to the nearest photo studio where you can print it.
Print your own bottle labels.
The label will not be completely free. We need to splurge on paper. We use Lomond glossy paper. The paper is good. The photos come out bright and colorful. I didn't notice any problems when printing. Sold in packs of 25 A4 sheets.
If you have a photo printer, you can print yourself. This is the most convenient option. Otherwise, you will have to look for a photo studio where they will print. There may be problems with this. Firstly, you ask to print on your own photo paper and the “printer operator” may simply send you away and refuse to print on some kind of paper. Secondly, you made this label yourself, and did not order it from a photo studio for 500 rubles. They may not print at all. This is not good, but such things happen.
The only disadvantage of such production is that it is not water resistant bottle labels. It is enough to drop a drink on it and it will immediately spoil. This can be easily resolved. The label must be laminated. Lamination must be done on one side. It is understandable that having laminated it on both sides it is somewhat difficult to stick it on later. You can laminate it with the most ordinary laminate, which most photo salons have, but it is thick and the label will bend under tension. We usually laminate into laminate in rolls. It is thin, perfectly protects the label and does not try to bend it or tear it off the bottle. But to be honest, we don’t laminate labels. I'm more scared. And without lamination, the photo holds up very well.
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Anyone who produces alcoholic drinks at home, sooner or later is faced with the need to label bottles containing the product produced. Labels help you sort and quickly find the right alcohol stored in utility rooms. And besides, it’s always nice to put a bottle with a label on the table.
What kind of labels can there be on bottles of moonshine?
Alcohol purchased in a store always has a label and name. A nameless product (without identification marks) does not inspire confidence in the consumer. A homemade product cannot be considered an exception. When the sticker on the bottle contains the name of the drink, the date of its production, the features of preparation, the attitude towards it will be completely different. Not to mention the fact that the manufacturer can place his own brand (or his name) on the label, thereby increasing respect for the product he made himself.
Moonshine labels may vary. For example, a sticker, the sketch of which was made independently in a simple graphics editor. With the help of a specialist, you can create a sticker with a complex design and specific symbols to order. Manufacturing and developing label designs is relatively inexpensive, but makes it possible to make a label that will be practically no different from an industrially produced one. There is a third option, the simplest: print a ready-made sticker from one of those offered for download on the Internet.
How to make permanent labels
When it comes to a feast, a bottle without stickers looks completely unattractive; it is not necessary to make a beautiful one; even the simplest one will attract attention. And a container that does not have any identification marks on it may go unnoticed. The label increases the prestige of the drink and inspires confidence in it. This means that permanent stickers on bottles must be present.
To make your own markings, you will need a simple printer and skills in a graphics editor. If you don’t have a printer at home, you can print the finished design at any printing salon. When creating a permanent sticker, you need to pay special attention to its design. The name of the drink is placed in the center. The inscription can be created using antique fonts, to which the rest of the style is selected.
In addition to the name, the labeling must contain information about the strength of the drink, the ingredients from which it is made, the date of bottling, and the volume of the container. The author of the drink can also provide additional information: detailed recipe, aging period, and any other information he deems necessary. In order not to clutter the front part of the sticker, you can also use design elements such as a necklace and a back label. The latter is located on the back of the bottle, and the necklace is glued to the neck. Containers designed in this way look prestigious and expensive.
Production of temporary labels
A temporary sticker is a useful attribute for a moonshiner. It allows the alcohol manufacturer to easily navigate during the intermediate stages of raw material processing. A temporary sticker involves placing on it such useful data as:
- displacement;
- serial number of the stage (1st, 2nd, 3rd);
- type of distillate;
- composition of raw materials;
- fortress;
- spill date.
Such a label can not be glued, but tied to the neck with coarse twine or attached with an elastic band. Information can be applied to it either by hand or using a printer or hand stamp. The use of such markings greatly simplifies the work of the moonshiner.
