Hello! How are you guys? Since our printer returned home, I can finally print many stickers again, yehet! which I feel excited about. The last time I made a sticker in the last few months I printed the sunflowers I made which are all gone because my cousin gave them to his friends as a remembrance of their graduation which makes me feel happy because he liked the sunflower sticker I made hehe.
I decided to draw a design again I am really into dried flowers which I lowkey drew before the weather here felt gloomy and it is perfect weather to just sit and cut stickers.
Materials I Used:
- Vinyl Sticker Matte
- Cold Laminating Film Matte
- Tape
- Cutting Mat
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Bone Folder
- Graphic Tablet
- Laptop
- Printer
Time to Print:
After I finished drawing all the designs I wanted, I used Photoshop as the program to use to print my stickers. I just make sure that the size of the paper, and the type of paper are right as the sticker paper I will use and make sure that the quality of the print is high. And it is ready to go.
I use this vinyl sticker to print my stickers. I make sure to clean my hand before holding the paper fine dust is the number one enemy when it comes to printing stickers.
It will take 5 to 10 minutes to print the stickers.
The stickers are ready to be laminated. I make sure to dust off any debris of dust on the paper before applying the lamination.
Lamination Time:
The lamination I use is a matte finish, I like the texture of it.
Before putting the lamination I first tape the paper down so it does not move when applying the lamination and then I peel half an inch to expose the adhesive part and fold the backing of it.
I make sure to eyeball the part where I am going to apply the lamination, what I do is I use half of the exposed adhesive and apply it past the sticker paper. It will serve as the extra tape when I apply the top coat.
Using the ruler I carefully press down to the edge of the sticker while I press down I slowly peel off the backing of the lamination. Make sure no bubbles form when doing it.
Some of the parts created bubbles so I first do is I gently used my finger to carefully circle the bubble until it disappeared.
After pressing down the bubbles, I use the bone folder to press down more the topcoat.
Cutting Time:
It is time to cut the stickers I make sure the scissors I use are clean and very sharp.
I first cut the sticky part to expose the lamination and then I cut it in parts of the group.
And then one by one I cut each carefully.
All the cut parts of the sticker are flying everywhere. LOL
New Sunflowers:
Those first three are my favorite sunflowers I drew. And these are all the new sunflowers I drew.
New Dried Sunflowers:
Daisy Stickers:
I put three of the stickers on my handmade mini sketchbook.
Thank you for visiting, see you on my next blog! :D
