Making cards using Peel-Off stickers

 Nothing like a cold winter day to get some studio time and make a bunch of cards.  I’ve used Peel-Off stickers (also called Outline Stickers) to make these cards.    

Peel-Off stickers are thin flexible stickers of images or sentiments/greetings.  They give a faux embossed look to your project.  These stickers have been around for a long time and I always have a stash in my studio.  They are fairly inexpensive and you can make a lot of cards with just one sheet of stickers.  They are available in different foils and colors with the post popular being black, gold and silver.  

The trick with these stickers is to go slow and be gentle when removing them.  They are very thin and can easily twist.  Use your finger nail to get under the edge of the sticker or use a craft tweezer.

Using Post-It Notes is another way to help remove the stickers.  This technique works well with sentiments that you want to make sure are lined up straight on the paper.

Take a Post-It Note and place it sticky side down on top of the sticker, press down gently then carefully pull up the edges of the sticker.  You are aiming to have the post-it note hold on to the sticker.  

After it is removed from the sheet then carefully position the sticker onto your paper and press down on the Post-It Note and remove it from the sticker.

My favorite way of using these stickers on cards is to color them in with paints or Copic markers.

  

You can also place the stickers over decorative paper and leave them as is or cut them out and glue them to a card.  Here I’ve placed the stickers on scrap sheets of alcohol inked paper and cut them out - a technique called “fussy cutting”.  

This sticker was placed on watercolor paper, painted, cut out and glued onto the card.  The silver decorative corners were from another sheet of Peel-Off stickers. 

I like buying sentiments in white or silver because then they can be colored with sharpie markers or alcohol inks. Allows me to color coordinate with the colors on the card.  Before coloring them in I always cut the sentiment from the sheet so I don't get color on surrounding images. 

 There are lots of creative options for these stickers. 

It was a fun day in the studio and didn't take long to pull these card together. 

Happy crafting!