How to Easily Make a Sticker

You can make customized stickers with your home computer and a printer.

Customized stickers can be used for a wide variety of tasks, such as sealing an envelope, decorating a child's school paper or labeling boxes. Making your own stickers allows you to customize them for all their uses. You can make "save the date" stickers that invited guests can put on their calendars, or stickers for party guests with the birthday boy's photo. Creating your own stickers is easy and saves money when compared to buying decorative stickers or ordering from a printer.

Things You'll Need

• Printable sticker sheets
• Word processing program
• Printer

Instructions

1. Purchase a set of ready to peel printable sticker sheets for your computer printer. These are available in a wide variety of sizes and in rectangular, square and circular shapes. You can also purchase a pack of plain sheet sticker paper which you can cut as desired for more customized shapes.

2. Open a new document in your word processing program. Go to the "tool" tab and scroll down to "templates" or "labels." Read the package of sticker paper you purchased to find the correct template number. Select the appropriate template on your word processing program. The template will open after clicking.

3. Choose a background for your sticker. Copy and paste clip art or a photo, or just fill in with a color from an art or design program.

4. Add in text such as a name, date or phrase, if desired.

5. Print your stickers. Go to file in your processing program, then scroll down to print. When the print window appears, click "OK." Once your stickers have been printed, peel and stick as you please.

References

• How 2 Stickers: How To Make Custom Stickers and Labels
• Microsoft Office: Make Stickers with Word Templates