If you're giving a bottle of your best homemade beer or wine as a gift, you want a professional looking personalized homebrewed label. These DIY custom label making instructions will show you how to make the perfect label for any occasion.
Here is the beauty of this custom label making process:
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- Multiple yet individual custom labels. For example you could setup your word processor to print 10 labels per page and print a unique bottle number on each custom label (6 of 24).
- The base label material can be any color or texture you printer can handle.
- Cut your homebrewed label to any shape or use specialty scissors for a decorative border.
- Use photos, artwork, birthday or greeting cards as custom labels.
- Hand or machine stitch cloth labels for special gift bottles.
In my opinion, the perfect homebrewed label(s) should relay two messages to the recipient.
- The bottle contents, maker, year, storage requirements, expiration dates, etc. That information found on that piece of masking tape on the bottle and the info in your head.
- Facts of interest concerning this unique bottle, e.g. grapes from your garden or hops imported form Germany or brewed for the 2008 Milwaukee Brewer's Festival.
I prefer the two label approach. The first label passes along all the necessary information allowing full artistic license for the second label.
For example, you could make the second label a birthday card. Using our carpet tape label making method, you could attach a purchased birthday card to your bottle. Or better yet make a homemade birthday message. If you are the creative artistic type, make your own custom label. It doesn't even have to be paper, e.g. needlepoint or embroider your message on the bottle. Use your computer and an internet card generator to make a personalized message.
The birthday example is just one idea for the second label. There are countless reasons why you would give your homebrew as a gift. Now you have a method of customizing a label for that occasion. Use our imagination! It's a Girl cigars lack imagination. How about, It's a Girl! Cathy Jo, May 28, 2008 bottle of strawberry wine bottled just for that occasion.
Homemade Beer & wine have become very popular in recent years. Giving a bottle of your finest homebrew as a gift is a very unique personalized gift. But that masking tape identifier label on the bottle just won't cut it. You need to make it more personal and add some class.
The whole process of making a homebrewed label is quite simple.
- Start with a page of printed custom labels or craft project to be used as a label.
- Apply double sided tape to the back to make a homemade label.
- If desired apply a clear acrylic coat for longevity.
- Cut the label to the desired shape and size.
- Peel the backing off your new homebrewed label and place it on your wine or beer bottle.
- That's it! You're done!
How simple and cheap can a personalize homebrewed label be for your bottle of homebrew? The most difficult part of this project is designing the custom label.
I have several tips to aid you in making a professional looking custom label. The most important tip is that when making a long label for a curved surface; use several pieces of tape parallel to the curve to avoid buckling. Remember to experiment first on an old bottle and unwanted or blank label material.
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