Homemade Stickers

Step 4 Adding the Gloss

Take out your now flattened sheet of stickers, ready your tape and lay it across the stickers, starting at one end and using your straight edge to lay it down evenly to prevent bubbles and wrinkles. This will help weatherproof the sticker and give it some nice gloss like a vinyl sticker. This step isn't really necessary, it just depends on the look you wanna go for. My first stickers were just paper- I think it gives it a more home made look.

If your sticker is too big for the tape then that's where the contact paper comes in. Cut out a piece that covers an entire sheet. Uncover one edge of the plastic and lay it down along one edge of the paper. This part is kinda tricky; use your straightedge to lay the plastic down on the paper evenly while simultaneously pulling the backing off the adhesive.

When you're done, just cut the sticker out to their final size and keep them flat to make sure they don't buckle. I put them in a little pocket in my sketchbook.

Comments

[teabagger01]

do you add water on the back of the sticker to make them stick afer you got the apoxy on them

[desel3]

you have to lick them like stamps or spray them with water

[al9595]

or you could have a damp spong and sponge it

[estevan]

Speaking of spray, why not just a spray bottle of this glue?  I've made a spray bottle of flour/water glue.

[SirBrittanicvs]

Licking them will leave you with a gross taste that won't get off your tongue.

[Jukebox Hero]

Live dangerously.

[desel3]

yeah but sometimes you have to man up and do what has to be done

[Wolley]

I used clear duck tape bought at Wal~Mart on some smaller stickers to cover them and this stuff looks really clear and is thick enough that there is no buckling so far. They turned out pretty cool.

[estevan]

I'm still in the process of doing this (my glue is currently drying) but I'm thinking: if the stickers are bigger than the tape, couldn't you just carefully place rows/columns of the tape on the sticker?  Or is the general consensus that it would look really bad?

[thartaros]

im in the process of making my first stickers, and like someone mentioned you could use mod podge. its still drying but so far it looks very nice, if you use a brush like the one you used for the glue, it will leave grooves along the sticker similar to a vinyl record. im adding another couple of layers of mod podge just to be sure the sticker will last a while :p

[SirBrittanicvs]

Good to know it looks good. :) I haven't had time to make stickers lately, plus I only have a few sheets left. Need to print some more out.

[thartaros]

is there a difference between the contact paper and tape as far as longevity/weatherproofing?

[SirBrittanicvs]

I don't rightly know. If I had to guess I'd say the packaging tape is better for it. It has a stronger adhesive, so its going to stay on longer.