Hello collage friends,

If you follow me, you know that I make wine labels for my friends at Liten Buffel Winery in NY. I have made a handful of wine labels for them and they tell me that the wine with my art on them consistently sell out. They are a natural wine maker. My funky and surreal collages resonate with the natural wine crowd.

Using Collage and Decoupage to Make Your Own Wine Label

The great thing about collage is that you can make awesome art with no drawing or painting skills. The first thing you want to do is determine what is the end goal of your project is. Some questions to consider:

Are you making a wine label for a mass-produced wine?
Are you making a label for some specialty wine you made at home? (less than 50 bottles?)
Does your wine label need to have government warnings on them?
How long do you want your wine label to last? Is this a quick novelty item for a bridal shower, or something you want to last 100 years?
Most importantly, what size label do you need?

Printing at Home vs. Picking a Professional Printing Service

If you are making more than 50 bottles or you need special government warnings, I recommend getting your labels professionally printed. There are services that specialize in label printing such as Niagara Label Company.

Anything less than 50 labels should be doable at home. ( I mean, you can certainly make more, but I don’t think I would want to manually make more than 50 by myself) Keep in mind, wine labels are smaller than most sheets of paper. You will have to cut each sheet of paper several times. ( I will show you how to save time in the following steps.)

Picking your printing service will give you an answer to the most important question: the size of your label. You don’t want to go through hours of work only to make something that won’t fit onto a wine bottle.

Please watch my YouTube video and I will take you through al the steps!