Don’t you just love it when you see something cute and you’re like “oh I can make that!”? Beautifully labelled essential oil roller bottles have been popping up all over Etsy and Instagram and they just add that little extra touch of cuteness to your bottles. I figured that since I have a Silhouette Cameo I could make essential oil roller bottle labels myself and it turns out it’s super easy!
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I’ve made several essential oil roller bottle labels for various things. The most recent ones I made were rollers of rose oil for a giveaway for my oils team so of course I had to go with gorgeous pink rollers!
Labor blend
What you need
- roller bottles – you can get these a lot of places but I typically order from Amazon. These are the pink ones pictured in this tutorial, These are the green-lidded ones pictured above, and these are great too. I always look for roller bottles with a stainless roller ball since those are better quality and less likely to break down than a plastic roller ball would be.
- A vinyl cutting machine – I have a Silhouette Cameo that I LOVE.
- Vinyl – This is a really good brand; I have been using some that I bought from Hobby Lobby and I DON’T recommend it – it is very hard to get it to stick, I’ll be buying the Oracle brand to use from here on out. So far the only color I’ve used is white but you could definitely do other colors and they even have glitter vinyl that is super pretty and fancy!
- Transfer paper – I’ve just been using the Cricut brand from Hobby Lobby and it has worked fine but this one is the #1 best seller on Amazon
What you do
Using your Silhouette software type the word(s) you want to use. Standard roller bottles are about 2.25 inches long (the bottle part, not including the lid) so you’ll need to keep the width of your word about 2 inches or less. Thankfully the Silhouette software makes it really easy to see the sizing.
With the Silhouette you can use any fonts you have on your computer, which is SUPER nice. I used Watermelon Script for the pink “rose” rollers and Magnolia Sky for the “forgive” and “labor” ones.
If you use a script font make sure you weld it together so that it cuts seamlessly.
“Weed” your design after you cut it (remove the vinyl from the outside of the word and the middle of the letters)
Place transfer paper on top of the vinyl lettering
Remove the backing from the vinyl so that only the word is left on the transfer paper
Stick the vinyl and transfer paper to the bottle. Rub it really well (some people use a flat edge like a credit card to rub it on) and then carefully peel the transfer paper off to leave the vinyl behind.
And now your bottle is labelled! So easy!
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Those frosted pink roller bottles are so cute! What a great tutorial, thanks for the post!
What font is your blog title “my chocolate moments”??? Great post!
Hi there ! Want to buy all the stuff you have listed . For the cameo cutter thing can I just get the starter bundle or do I need the vinyl one ? The only difference I see is that it comes with the paper but you recommend the vinyl with another link so I just wanted to confirm . Thank you!
You can either get the starter bundle and then also get vinyl separate, or you could just get the vinyl bundle which will have vinyl included.
Thanks Caitlin! I just purchased a Cameo 3 – Love it! Made a sign for my car window and was looking for a tutorial of sort for the roller bottles.
Yay! Exciting!
Do you recommend a water proof or oil proof vinyl? My labels fall off my roller from the oils. They loose there stickyness. Please help. I love the look just need them to stay on.
For a long time I just used an off brand I bought somewhere (maybe Hobby Lobby) and it has not held up well, it loses the stickiness like you said. Now I’m trying an outdoor/permanent vinyl to see if that’ll hold up better.
How has the outdoor/permanent vinyl worked on the roller bottles? Are they sticking better?
I just purchased the Silhouette Cameo 3 based on this post because the labels are so pretty! But I’m having some trouble cutting the labels. I have the Silhouette Vinyl but when I try cutting with the machine it picks up the vinyl as it’s going back over places so my words end up a clump of vinyl by the end of the cutting. Any suggestions?
I just got an Explore Air 2 for Christmas, and thanks to you and your helpful post, I just made my first labels!!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing and teaching!!!
Yay! You’re welcome!
How many labels can you typically make from the sheets of vinyl you purchase?? Seems like you’d be able to make a LOT right?
Yes, a ton! I’ve never filled a sheet with labels but I’d guess depending on how big your word is, maybe 100 or so?
where do you get those beautiful bottles from
Amazon! I linked to them in this post: https://mychocolatemoments.com/2017/11/15/essential-oil-incentive-ideas/
Any luck getting the permanent vinyl to stay?
What speed and thickness setting do you use when making these roller bottle labels?
I use the pre-set vinyl setting.
I love this post. I found it on Pinterest. How do you measure for other bottle sizes?
Thank you! I just use a ruler to measure the length of the bottle and then size the word to be a little smaller than that length.
Thank you for this tutorial. Just got a cameo 3 from my daughters for Christmas. Am so excited to try to do your tutorial!
You’re welcome!!
THe link you posted to getting the font, datafont.com. Is that a safe site? DIdnt want to dwnload if it was not.
The link is dafont.com, not datafont . com that you linked in your comment. And yes, dafont is a safe site.
Thank you so much for sharing what you’ve learned! I don’t have a Cricut but have access to one and I’d really like to label my oil bottles.