How to Make Homemade Stickers and Embellishments

If adding stickers or embellishments to homemade cards or your scrapbooks is getting too expensive, make them at home. Just use your imagination and design or create all the embellishments you want.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Desktop Computer
• Word Processing Software
• Color Ink jet Printer
• Copy or Printer Paper (you can use thicker paper if you like)
• Sticky Foam Squares from craft store
• Scissors

Making Homemade Sticker/ Embellishments

1. 
   Desktop Computer and Color Ink Jet Printer

   Sit at your desk, turn on your desktop computer and printer. Click on the word processing software icon on computer desktop.

2. 
   Gallery Window in Word Processing Software

   Click on the big "A" on your drawing toolbar at the bottom of your word processing software. Once open, the gallery window will open up. From here, click on the first box outlined. This will open and say "Your Text Here."

3. 
   Baby Abby and Baby Emma Text for Stickers/Embellishments

   In this window, type in the text you want to make into a sticker/embellisment. Then click on the Okay button and your text will appear on a blank page. You can also use any font you like, there is no one font you must use.

4. 
   Art Toolbar for your text

   From here, left click on the text and a text window and toolbar will appear on your page. To add color, stripes, dots or whatever to your text, click on the format (paintbrush icon) and a window will open up with several tabs for you to use.

5. 
   Color and Lines Dropdown Window for your text

   Now, click on the "color and lines" drop down where you can pick a color or colors for your text, like a "custom color" or "fill effect" using a "gradient", "texture", "pattern" or "picture", within your text. If you click in the "line" box, in the color box, you can remove the black outline of your text by clicking on the white box.

6. 
   Printed and Cut Stickers/Embellishments for Cards or Scrapbooking

   This is one sticker/embellishment ready to be printed, cut and fitted with foam stickers. You can use a laminating machine if you want to. This is an added expense though.

7. 
   Roll of Sticky Foam for Scrapbooking or Homemade Cards

   For these stickers/embellishments, you will be cutting around the words, try not to go in between the spaces as there is no need to separate the words. Like store bought embellishments, they sometimes are made in phrase form too. Now, cut foam squares, from the sticky foam roll, to the back of your stickers/embellisments and place on your homemade cards or scrapbooks. There, that was easy, right?

Tips & Warnings

• If you have time and want to create something special, making homemade stickers/embellishments is something to do.
• You can use a laminating machine if you want the stickers/embellishments to stay longer.
• Now, having a computer and the proper software has its advantages.

[GreenMomma]

on 8/5/2008 great idea! *****

[GreenMomma]

on 8/5/2008 great idea! *****