What this template is for
A six-pack carrier. A tray, a spine that runs the whole length and carries on upwards into the handle, and cross dividers that egg-crate into it — so the weight hangs on a panel that reaches the floor. Nothing but the tray corners is glued.
Also called six pack carrier · beer carrier template · wine bottle carrier · drinks carrier box — all the same shape, and this is it.
- Six-packs of beer, soda and small bottles
- Wine and oil gift sets
- Homebrew, jam and hot sauce gifts
- Market stalls and farm shops
How to use this template
All four downloads are the same bottle carrier at the same size — only the format changes.
- PDF printing at home
- Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
- PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate
- Upload, lock it in place and design your bottle carrier on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
- SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity
- Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
- DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters
- Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.
Printing it
- Type your size above, then download the PDF.
- Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
- Too big for the paper? Tick Split across several sheets: it tiles across as many as it needs, with overlaps and matching letters to tape together.
How to put it together
These pictures are the bottle carrier itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.
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Cut the solid lines
Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.
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Score every dashed line
Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.
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Fold, glue and hold
Fold the tray up and glue its four corner tabs. Stand the spine in it, notches downwards. Drop each divider over the spine, notch downwards onto it, until both sit flat on the floor. No glue: they hold one another.
Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.
Questions about the bottle carrier
- How do the dividers hold together?
- They egg-crate. The spine is notched up from its bottom edge and the cross dividers are notched down from their top edge, each halfway, so they slide into one another and both still stand on the floor. There is no glue on any of them — only the tray’s four corner tabs are glued.
- Why is the handle part of the spine?
- Because that is what carries the weight. The spine runs the whole length of the carrier and reaches the floor, so a full load hangs on a panel that goes all the way down rather than on something stuck to a wall. A handle glued to the sides of a box is the part that fails first.
- Will it print on one sheet?
- No, and it is not meant to. At the size it opens with, the drawing is about 360 by 676 mm, which is a good deal larger than A4 — a carrier for six bottles is simply a big piece of board. Use A3, or switch on “split across sheets” and tape the pieces together. Make it much smaller and it will fit one sheet, but so will the bottles.
- What board should I use?
- Something stiff. 300 gsm card is the minimum for empty bottles and corrugated board is better for full ones. Set the material thickness to what you are actually using: the slots are cut that much wider plus a working clearance, and a slot cut to the bare thickness will not take the board.
Print your own design on it
Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the bottle carrier. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there.
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