My Sticker Process

In my head it is no secret that I don’t print my own stickers, but I’ve come to realize that’s not the case for many of my customers. So let me share with you the process of making a sticker from design to sticking it on something!

I am always drawing..it’s kind of annoying. Whether I am watching TV or sometimes even talking to people (rude I know) you will often times find me with a pen in one hand and a sketchbook in the other. I lot of my stickers come from random lil’ doodles I draw for fun and then that part of my brain that has money on the mind says “You could sell that”. So I take the sketch and pull it into either Procreate or Adobe Illustrator. Then I can start digitizing it and cleaning it up. Sometimes when I’m done it looks nothing like the sketch I started with. You can check out some of what inspires me here!

Once the design is done then I send it to my printer! I then “patiently” wait for them to arrive. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Y’all, I can not even begin to tell you how much I detested printing my own stickers. I wasn’t willing to buy a super fancy printer, which made me hate my office printer all the more. And then laminating the stickers and setting it all up on my paper cutter took a lot of time. Time I wanted to spend on other things. If I had purchased a better printer I’m sure it would have made my life easier, but I decided to make the transition and have someone else do it.

Making the Transition

I see so many people complain saying “It’s too expensive for me to start having another company print my stickers. I have way too many designs.” That is very real, I get it. But I did make the transition without breaking the bank and here’s how I did it. ONE STICKER AT A TIME. One month I took several of my most popular sticker designs and had them printed by a company. Then next month I took my profits and did it again with different designs. Slowly but surely I moved everything over. It was also a great time for me to weed out some designs that I needed to retire. So while it can be an intimidating process I think it’s worth it. My stickers are now completely waterproof. You can slap those bad boys on a water bottle (and run it through the dishwasher), a car (and drive through the carwash), or a locker (and they’ll last the whole school year).

These vinyl stickers are both durable and adorable. So if you’re looking to start a sticker business or are currently in the thick of it I hope this has given you some insight into the process.

Since you made it to the end of the article I’ll share a little treat with you! One of the sticker printers I have been using since the beginning and love it is Sticker Mule! You can save $10 off your first order here!