If you sell your finished items, the single biggest way to take your items to the next level is to label them. And not just a hand written tag or sticker stating what it is and the price like a yard sale item.
An actual official looking printed label with all of the relevant information such as your business name, fiber content, and care instructions.

Packaging gives a whole new dimension to your item. It instantly takes it from “yeah I just made this” to “boutique high end item worthy of this high price” in the time it takes to put the label on.

You may think it costs a lot of money to do this, but it actually doesn’t. It’s actually really easy and cheap to do it yourself, even if you have no graphic design skills.
Today I’m going to show you how I create my labels for my products at home with no special software, graphics experience, or printing service. I’ve also created a free printable template to get you started (scroll down).

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How To Create Wrap Labels For Cheap

I recently got a large order from one of my retail customers, so while I was getting the labels ready, I thought I would bring you along and show you how I create wrap labels at home with incredibly low cost.

For those of you wondering, these are for my Spa Soap Sacks.
Wrap labels are one of the simplest ways to package your items and I love them because they can be used on almost any product.
I’ll try and do a post soon about how to package various finished items using wrap labels.

The best part about this, is that these labels are really a blank canvas. Once you get the hang of creating them, you can play around with fonts and colors and make it something really unique to you and your brand.

What you need:

As I said, you don’t need anything special to make these, all you need is:

• a basic word processing software
• a home printer
• card-stock paper
• tape
• scissors

The program I’m using is Word, but you could also do this with similar any word processing program (such as Pages).

Laying The Foundation For The Labels:

First we need to put a few things in place and make a few adjustments before we can get onto the fun of creating our labels:
The first thing I’m going to do is go in and create a new blank document. Standard paper size (8.5 in x 11 in).
The orientation you choose (portrait or landscape) depends on what item you want to use the labels for. Landscape for bigger items such as and portrait orientation for smaller items.

In document settings, you’ll want to go in to the custom margin setting and set them .15 on all sides. This gives you the most usable printing area and helps you get the most labels out of the sheet of paper.

Now create a single cell table, this is the basis for our labels. Drag the table cell out to the width of the page. Toggling on the ruler setting can be helpful with showing the size of the things you’re putting on the page.

In text settings go in and center the text. Now it’s time for the fun part:

Label Customization:

It’s time to make it look like a label.
For now, just do everything in the first cell.

Now you’re going to add all of the things that make it a label.

Here are some things to put on the label:

• What the item is
• Your business name
• Where to find you (website, Instagram etc.)
• What the item is made of, (check the label of the yarn you used for the fiber breakdown)
• Item Care instructions

Have fun with the font, but make sure it’s easy to read. I like to use a slightly serifed font.They’re easy to read, but still have a touch of elegance. Some of the fonts I like to use for these are Gerogia (used in the labels above), Merriweather, & Tisa.

Avoid fonts that are really light or cursive like.

For theses labels, the title is 25pts, the business name is 15pts and the website is 12pts. As I mentioned above, the font is Georgia.

I like to keep the front of the label as visually clutter free as possible. To accomplish this, I use a text box to add the fiber content and the care instructions. I then rotate it 90 and put it on the end of the label. In the outline color settings for the text box, I select white so that the outline doesn’t show.

Once your label is how you like it, highlight the entire cell and select copy.

Right below the cell, hit paste and the information will fill in. Repeat this until the entire page is full of labels.

Print It!

After you’ve completed filling in the sheet, you’re ready to print your newly designed labels. I just use my home printer to do this.
I print mine onto white card stock (THIS is the brand I use, you can also find it in the office section at Walmart).

Cut the labels apart along the lines created by the table cells.

Pro tip: a paper slicer like THIS really speeds up this process (especially if you are doing multiple pages).
Snugly wrap the label around your item.
To secure the labels, use a little piece of tape on the end. If you don’t want it seen, you can also use double sided tape on the edge before you put the label on your item (these little double sided rollers make it easy to quickly apply to your labels)

Repeat for all of the things!

If you make these, be sure to tag me on Instagram (@yarnbending ), I’d love to see what you do with your labels!

Free printable template

If you want to give this a try, I’ve created a pre-formatted label template. Just edit the fill in the blank areas + copy paste and you’re ready to go! This template should work with most all word processing softwares. If it doesn’t, please let me know!

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