How to use Peel off stickers in different ways - cardmaking

1. JUST AS THEY ARE.
a?￠ The most obvious way to use the stickers is to just peel the design of your choice and to apply it straight onto the paper or card of your choice. This will produce very simple BUT flat designs. By using different papers, border and corner peel offs, basic cards can be produced.

2. CREATE 3D EMBELLISHMENTS
a?￠ The next step up is to apply the chosen peel off onto a piece of card and then to cut around the design leaving a 1-2mm border all around. You now have an embellishment which can be used with foam pads to create a 3d element for your card
a?￠ Try this technique using vellums a?? especially butterflies, flowers and dragonflies

3. WITH GEL PENS
a?￠ Use peel offs with gel pens to colour in the design. The Sakura gel pens are great for creating a more 3d effect.

4. ON ACETATE WITH GLASS PAINTS
a?￠ Place peel offs onto acetate and colour in with glass paints to create stained glass effect embellishments. The coloured items can then be trimmed and used in a variety of ways on cards. This technique works well with aperture cards, where the aperture acts as a frame for the stained glass design.

5. AS STENCILS WITH WATERCOLOURS
a?￠ Put a peel off onto a piece of white card.
a?￠ Using a Marvy Le Plume pen, apply some of the marker colour onto a piece of acetate (a greeting card wrapper will do, or indeed any clear plastic. )
a?￠ Then use a paint brush loaded with water to pick up the Marvy colour from the acetate. Brush this across the Peel off to give a water colour effect. Experiment with different colours. Paint stripes of similar or contrasting colours, or just one colour all over the design.
a?￠ Let the watercolour dry and then carefully peel away the sticker. You will end up with the outline of the sticker showing up as white lines against the watercolour. Rather like the resist technique in rubber stamping.
a?￠ Trim and layer and mat the creation onto your card design

6. AS STENCILS WITH CHALKS
a?￠ This technique is great for creating backgrounds. For practice use a simple flower design. Place the sticker randomly on a piece of white card. Then using a cotton wool ball pick up some crafters chalk and apply all over the peel off in a dabbing motion. Allow the chalk to go over the edges of the peel off design.
a?￠ Peel off the sticker and place randomly on the card again and repeat the process of applying the chalk.
a?￠ Remember to put the peel off over the edge of the card as well to give what will look like partially cut off designs a?? this adds to the effect of a professional design. Just remember when you get a printed paper to look at the edges of the paper you always have parts of the print which are cut off. When creating your own backgrounds you are trying to recreate this.
a?￠ After you have finished chalking the peel off randomly all over the card you will have a lovely soft background.
a?￠ To fix the chalk to the card and to minimize the chalk rubbing off, spray very lightly with some hairspray.

7. WITH GLITTER , FINE COLOURED SAND, ACCENT BEADS
a?￠ Once your Peel off is in place you can use a variety of craft materials to colour in.
a?￠ Use PVA glue and colour in with glitter
a?￠ Use PVA glue and colour in with fine coloured sand
a?￠ Use PVA glue and colour in with Accent beads

8. WITH PEBEO SOLEIL PAINT
a?￠ Pebeo Soleil paint is a photosensitive paint
a?￠ For this technique you need to use some white satin ribbon. This works best with synthetic ribbon. 5cm ribbon works well
a?￠ Wet the ribbon through with water. Then using sponge brushes apply soleil paint to the ribbon in long strokes. The colour will spread ( as with silk paints and wet on wet watercolour techniques)
a?￠ Once the ribbon is covered with the soleil paint apply the peel off on top of the wet paint.
a?￠ Place the piece of ribbon under a lamp, on a bright window ledge or outside if sunny.
a?￠ Once dry remove the sticker and you will be left with the peel off design showing in white. The paint reacts with light and does not fix where the peel off creates a mask. Not sure on the exact process but it is like magic.
a?￠ Wrap the ribbon round a piece of card to give rigidity and apply to your card.

9. WITH EMBROIDERY STITCHES
a?￠ New stitching or embroidery stickers are now available. They are printed on transparent material and can used on card paper and fabric.
a?￠ There are designs in a series of dots on these stickers which indicate where holes can be pricked using a pricking tool.
a?￠ Then using embroidery threads, spirelli threads etc you can add stitches to the design using the dots and pricked holes as a guideline

10. AS 3-D DECOUPAGE MEDALLIONS
a?￠ There are lots of 3d medallion style stickers available. Create wonderful 3d medallions without all the stamping or embossing.