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Let’s talk about stickers!<\/strong> What are they good for? As my stepdaughter would say, “All of the things!” Adults use them in planners, calendars, and bullet journals. Older teens and young adults emblazon their laptops, iPads, and water bottles with stickers and decals galore. And littles absolutely adore stickers as gifts or rewards for good behavior.<\/p>\n

Did you know it’s super easy to turn a digital kit from the Sweet Shoppe into pages and pages of stickers? All sized perfectly for whatever your project is.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the next installment of Think Outside the Album<\/strong><\/em>, where we look at different ways to take our digital supplies off the scrapbook page and instead, use them to make the rest of our world just a little bit sweeter.<\/p>\n

Today, we’re looking at how easy it is to turn Sweet Shoppe digital scrapbooking kits into perfectly customized stickers.<\/p>\n

All you need is a color inkjet printer, a digital diecut machine (like a Cricut<\/a> or Silhouette<\/a>), and sheets of sticker paper – easily available at craft or office supply stores or through Amazon.<\/p>\n

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Before we begin, though, it’s time for a quick but important reminder about licensing and terms of use<\/strong>. When you buy a kit from the Sweet Shoppe, it comes with a license for personal, non-commercial use. That means you may use it to make stickers for your planner and bullet journal. You may use it to make stickers for the little kids in your life. And you may use it to make decals to give as gifts to anyone you’d like. You may NOT make stickers from these designs and sell them on Etsy, at a craft fair, or as a fundraiser, no matter how good the cause. If money is changing hands, it\u2019s considered commercial use, and you may only use SSD supplies for that if you have prior written permission from the designer. So personal, non-commercial use only. Got it? Cool.<\/p>\n

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What You’ll Need<\/h1>\n

Sticker paper<\/strong>
\nAny sticker paper will do if it’s compatible with your printer. I used this paper<\/a>, which I purchased on Amazon for $9.99 for 30 sheets.<\/p>\n

A color printer<\/strong>
\nEither inkjet or laser is fine; I used my HP OfficeJet Pro 9010 All-In-One.<\/p>\n

An electronic digital cutting machine<\/strong>
\nI used my Cricut Maker, but any cutter capable of cutting sticker paper will do.<\/p>\n

Cutting mat<\/strong>
\nFor the Cricut, either the blue or green mat will work.<\/p>\n

The appropriate cutting blade<\/strong>
\nFor the Cricut, you’ll want a sharp fine point blade.<\/p>\n

Please note: for today’s post, I’m going to walk you through specifically how to use a Cricut to create stickers. If you own a Silhouette cutting machine, the concept is the same but the specific steps and software will be different. You can see this post for instructions<\/a> on how to do this with a Silhouette.<\/p>\n

Kiss Cut vs. Die Cut<\/h1>\n

There are two kinds of stickers – kiss-cut and die-cut. If you buy a sheet of stickers and peel off the individual sticker leaving the backing paper behind, it’s a kiss-cut<\/strong>. If you get a decal or sticker where the entire shape is cut out and you have to separate the sticker paper from the backing paper along a cut edge, it’s a die-cut<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Which one you go with is entirely based on your personal preference.<\/p>\n

Personally, I prefer the ease of a sheet of kiss-cut stickers, so that’s what I’ll be demonstrating today. The precise cutter settings to get a kiss cut can vary depending on the brand and style of sticker paper you use. On my Cricut, I’ve had the best luck using the built-in setting for Washi Sheet<\/strong>. If you choose a setting that uses too much pressure, the worst that will happen is it cuts all the way through the paper, giving you a die cut sticker. You should expect to use several sheets of sticker paper as you play with settings and figure out what works best for your sticker paper and cutter.<\/p>\n

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The rest of this post has lots of screenshots and photos and may seem more complicated than it is. Really, printing your own stickers is easy – but I wanted to give you all sorts of help along the way. We’re going to explore four different ways of creating stickers:<\/p>\n