Making beautiful flower stickers at home is a simple and creative process, often involving pressed flowers and basic crafting supplies like paper and tape. This DIY method allows you to preserve the beauty of real flowers and turn them into unique decorative stickers.
Materials You'll Need
- Pressed Flowers: Choose small, relatively flat flowers or parts of flowers (like petals). Ensure they are completely dry to prevent mold.
- Paper: Any paper will work, but a slightly thicker paper can be easier to handle.
- Clear Packing Tape: Wide, clear tape is essential for creating the sticker layer.
- Scissors: Sharp scissors for cutting out your finished stickers.
Step-by-Step Guide to Making Pressed Flower Stickers
Creating these handmade stickers is quite straightforward. Here’s how you can do it:
- Prepare Your Workspace: Lay down your paper on a flat, clean surface.
- Arrange Flowers: Carefully place your dried, pressed flowers or flower pieces onto the paper, arranging them however you like. Leave some space between each flower arrangement so you can cut them out later.
- Apply the First Layer of Tape: Take a strip of clear packing tape and carefully lay it over your arranged flowers on the paper. It's really important that you try to tape it down so that there's no air bubbles. Smooth the tape down gently with your fingers or a ruler to ensure it adheres well to the paper and covers the flowers completely, trapping them flat.
- Apply the Second Layer of Tape: Apply a second strip of tape alongside the first one. And that the second strip of tape completely overlaps the first one that we put down. This creates a continuous protective layer over the paper and flowers. Repeat this process until all your arranged flowers are covered by overlapping strips of tape.
- Trim Excess Paper: Once the tape is securely in place over all the flowers, you can trim the excess paper from around the taped area.
- Cut Out Stickers: Carefully cut around each individual flower arrangement, leaving a small border of tape/paper around it. You can cut simple shapes like circles or squares, or follow the outline of the flower for a more custom look. The tape acts as the protective, slightly sticky layer, and the paper underneath provides structure.
- Use Your Stickers: To use your homemade flower sticker, simply peel the paper backing away from the tape layer containing the flower, revealing the adhesive side of the tape.
This method creates a beautiful and durable sticker that showcases the natural beauty of pressed flowers. Ensuring the tape is applied smoothly without air bubbles and with sufficient overlap is key to a successful, long-lasting sticker.
