Practical Scrappers: letter stickers

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Monday, May 21, 2012

10 Things You Can Do with Letter Stickers

Welcome to our second installment of 10 Things! This week we are giving you ten ideas of things to try with your letter stickers. They are so hard to use up, but an absolute must have item in papercrafting. Here's some inspiration on how to use some up or use what you've got in unique ways! Ready, set, go!

1. Embellish your letters with thread or bakers twine to add color and interest to plain letters.

Practical Scrapper Christine used purple thread that matched her patterned paper and wrapped it around her "c" and "o" several times to completely change up the look of her Thickers.

2. Use O's in fun ways to add character to your project
Practical Scrapper Kerri used her O's to make cute eyes for a Halloween card.

3. Use letter stickers to create a critter and/or form an interesting border.
Alumni Practical Scrapper Jamie Cripps used O's to make her critter and then used W's to create an interesting edge on her card.

4. Use Z's to mimic sleeping
Practical Scrapper Kerri used Z's in all different fonts to show off a cute sleeping baby. What a great way to use up some of those Z's that are hard to use!

5. Use lined up B's to make a funky butterfly
Alumni Practical Scrapper Jamie used to B's lined up back to back and mounted on black paper to form her own one of a kind embellishment.

6. Use stickers as a stencil to trace your letters (works great if you don't have the color you need!)
Practical Scrapper Christine stuck her letter stickers that she wanted to trace onto her shirt first. This helped remove the stickyness enough so that she would be able to pull them up after tracing them.

7. Use letter stickers to frame a school picture...using up lots of the alphabet!

Alumni Practical Scrapper Kim used hers coordinating the color but really making them stand out by using quadrilateral shapes to frame a circle

8. Intermix fonts and colors to create added interest

Practical Scrapper Christine used a variety of fonts to create her title and journaling on this page. They also served to spell out words that she couldn't find a word sticker for.

9. Mount letter stickers on a different color to create a mat that matches other elements on your layout

Practical Scrapper Erin utilizes this technique regularly. Here she mounted her white letters onto black and cut around them making white letters work perfectly on this layout.

10. Use a variety of fonts to create a list

Practical Scrapper Erin used a variety of fonts to tell the story of choosing a name for their new puppy.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Focus: Letter Stickers

Yesterday on a run to the get-everything-here-store, I stumbled upon a pack of K&Company patterned letter stickers. It’s called an “Embellishment Flip Pack” and says that it includes 742 pieces. It was out of place, and I could see nowhere that it belonged. I was certain it was upwards of $10, but you never know, so I threw it in the cart (I’m trying to not spend money on myself right now, but this could be a good deal…). Low 'n behold - $3.50. Uh, yeah, I’ll take that.

This week should have taught me – it was a hard challenge! But letter stickers are handy and if you find just the right one, it can make or break a page. A picture is worth a thousand words, yes. But a well-placed word – on or around a picture (besides a title) - can add to the story. Christine’s layout says a lot. Her picture is telling, but her surrounding words are the perfect caption. Christine shared another idea to do X's and O's on a page. I found this one on twopeasinabucket by Amy Grendall. Super cute. Brae shared her layout and uses a lot of letters (especially those that are less popular than others), to create a fantastic effect with some ink and a brayer. Jamie’s card looks great and speaks well for those huge sticker letters. Sometimes I wonder how useful those will be for me, but this is a great way to utilize them. I love how Jenny T uses lighter colored pink stickers in the back and then puts her title over it with the black stickers. I’m definitely using that. (I’ve been wondering what to do with my pink letter rub-ons!) Then there is the always trusty way to use up letter stickers – using random ones to create your title or a message of some sort. Even though it’s kindof a title, I love what THCEO did with her Halloween card. It’s just cute. In the September 09 issue of Creating Keepsakes, Emily Pitts does a great layout on page 71, where she uses huge letters to spell COAT, but cuts horizontally through the middle of the letters to create a space for journaling. I know, if I could find a link online to it, I would give it to you. But I cannot find one. Find the magazine. Speaking of which, Creating Keepsakes is sometimes a little too involved for my usually-simple approach, but this issue does have a lot of layouts that focus on using up leftover or older supplies!

With all this inspiration, I suppose my new letter stickers won’t last long. But if the results are fun and meaningful, I think I’ll take it. Enjoy your supplies!

This week's challenge is Letter Stickers

The challenge this week is a tough one-the toughest I think we've done so far! We want you to use your letter stickers-but not in the traditional way...try to think up something different than using them in another ordinary title. I got some great inspiration from our design team and hope you can supply me with some too! You will notice some slight changes to our formating this week-they may be permanent or temporary-we're having fun experimenting :).

Deadline for entry is 5:00 ET on Friday.