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The roll of plaid wrapping paper looked endless in November. By the twelfth present it runs out two inches short of the corner, and the last box goes under the tree wearing a patch of leftover snowmen taped over the gap.
Digital paper does not run out. It is a pack of pattern files you print as often as you like, for gift tags, card fronts, cookie tins, journal pages and, with a bit of planning, the wrapping paper itself. These 16 Christmas packs are sorted by style, with five free ones first.
The short version: Most packs are 12 x 12 inch files at 300 dpi. For gift wrap and Cricut pattern fills, pick a seamless pack; for card fronts and journal pages, any pack works. Start with the free buffalo plaid, then add one style you love.
Five packs cost nothing when we checked. Creative Fabrica puts a big trial button on every product page; the free download is the plainer link underneath that reads “Download this product as a freebie.”
Plaid and gingham
The workhorse patterns. Plaid goes under everything, suits gifts for anyone, and hides the wobbly edge of a hand-cut tag better than any other pattern.
Vintage, retro and toile
For people whose tree has glass ornaments from three generations. The toile and the 1950s packs look especially good on kraft-colored card and in junk journals, where a little age is the point.
Cottagecore and Nordic
Foxes, mushrooms, folk-art hearts and rocking reindeer. These are the packs that still look right in January, when the red-and-green ones start to feel a little late.
Sweet, watercolor and coquette
Pinks, soft teals, bows and cookies. For baking-day gift tags, a pink tree, or a teenager who has opinions about red and green.
Seamless or not: why it matters
Every card above says whether its pack is seamless, and that decides what you can do with it.
Seamless means the right edge of the pattern continues into the left edge, and the top into the bottom. Put four copies side by side and you cannot see where one ends. That is what lets you build a sheet bigger than the file, for a large gift wrap print at a copy shop or a fabric order.
Not seamless means the design stops at the edges, like a painting. Tile it and you get a visible grid. These are for using one sheet at a time: a card front, a background page, the lining of a box.
A PNG with a transparent background (the coquette pack above) lets the pattern float over any color you choose, which is handy for tags and labels.
For printing a 12 x 12 file on a letter-size home printer without losing the edges, our guide to printable scrapbook paper has the settings.
What to make with Christmas digital paper
Gift tags: print a sheet, cut rectangles, punch a hole. A single letter-size page makes a dozen tags.
Card fronts: print on white cardstock, trim to 5 x 7 inches, add a sentiment. Non-seamless packs shine here, because the design was drawn to fit one sheet.
Cookie tins and boxes: cut a strip to wrap around a tin or line the lid of a box.
Cricut Print Then Cut: in Design Space on a computer, choose Upload, then Pattern Fill, then Upload Pattern, and any JPG or PNG from these packs becomes a fill for shapes and letters. Cricut’s help center notes that patterns can only be uploaded from the desktop app, not the phone or tablet apps.
Wrapping paper, at last. For a small gift, two printed letter sheets taped together from behind are enough. For anything bigger, tile a seamless pattern into a large file and have it printed at a copy shop, or wrap in plain kraft paper and use a strip of printed pattern as a band.
Cards at a church bazaar, cookie tins at the school fair: usually yes, but it depends on the pack as well as the site. Per Creative Fabrica’s help center, a freebie is covered by the Single Sales License, which allows commercial use, and anything you download with All Access falls under the subscription license. Some sellers spell out their own terms too; the buffalo plaid pack above says personal and commercial use. Selling the paper files themselves is not the same as selling cards or tins you printed them on, so read the license on the product page before a craft fair.
Frequently asked questions about Christmas digital paper
What size is Christmas digital paper?
Most packs are 12 x 12 inches at 300 dpi, which is 3600 pixels square. Some run a little larger, like the 4096-pixel patchwork and winter packs above.
How do I print digital paper at home?
Open the JPG, choose your paper size and print at the highest quality setting. For 12 x 12 files on letter paper, crop to the part of the pattern you want rather than shrinking the whole square.
What paper should I print digital paper on?
Text-weight paper for journal pages and wrap, cardstock for tags and card fronts. Matte paper keeps colors soft and looks more like real patterned paper than glossy photo paper does.
Is Christmas digital paper free on Creative Fabrica?
The five above are. Just use the freebie link, not the main button, which is the trial.
Can I use digital paper for sublimation?
Many packs mention it, and the plaid and gingerbread listings above name mugs, shirts and tumblers. Print on sublimation paper with sublimation ink and mirror the image as usual; with an all-over pattern you will only notice if there is lettering in it.
Enough paper for the last present
Print the plaid once for the tags, twice for the small boxes, and as often as you need after that. The last present under the tree gets the same paper as the first, all the way to the corner.
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