Hey y'all! I've got something creative to share today. Since it's restful day ('cos I prefer rest over labor), I thought I would do some stickers for myself. I've actually done this for two of my friends and I figured it's a great way to give. Why make stickers yourself when you can buy them? Personally, I would like to receive handmade stickers since time and effort has been put in to create them so it's really from the heart. Same thing goes for why would you wanna bake a cake for someone when you can buy it easily right? Anyway, let's get sticky....
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You can get these at Popular, Art Friend, craft stores or selected stationery shops. I'm using the cheap matte paper ones which costs $3.60 for 10 pieces.
I love having music playing to keep me going and sometimes, it can also give inspiration. One music player I go to is Spotify. Spotify is unique because it has different playlists for the mood you're in. It also has quite a big database for music which includes top music chart artists as well as indie bands. You can also check out my Spotify account for my playlists; here I am listening to my The One with the Chill Jam playlist ^ ^
I turned to my hard drive for my own pictures to use them as my background. Alternatively, I went on Tumblr/Pinterest for really nice photos. After finding the photos I liked, I saved them to one file where I will then work from. Simultaneously, I search on Google images for tumblr quotes for inspiration on the typography and design.
Personally, I used illustrator to do all of my text designs. One perk is when the image is being blasted to a huge size, the text will not turn pixelated. I also used Photoscape to crop my images into a circle. Alternatively, here are some free photo editing applications that are available for use/download: pixlr | photoscape
For one of my friends, instead of having a background, I used plain colors instead which turned out really classy and it has a clean edge to it. So, use a blank canvas if you run out of pictures! On illustrator, I use these settings: CMYK in 300dpi and in 16bit/32bit.
For unique fonts, I go to Dafont which has a bunch of free downloadable fonts in many styles!
The fun part is getting to design! It doesn't need to be super profesh. Just treat it as a blank canvas and design as how you feel! It can be anything, really. A name, a word or even an alphabet. After designing, I put the templates onto a word document before converting into a PDF file.
Before printing, I made sure that the print settings are in color (if I want them in color, but you can print in monochrome as well.) and the size of the images. I've wasted ink almost 5 times just because I didn't print in the right settings so I hope that this will not happen to anyone else. Ensure that the back of the sticker paper is facing upwards so the images get printed on the blank side.
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I hope this might give inspiration to those who are in need of one and helpful to those who plan to do something like this! Here are some shots of my end product :
Have fun and be blessed, x
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