Hey, everybody. I'm Corinne Blackstone
and welcome to my craft room. I'm so excited to have you here today. So let's get started on this super fun
tutorial. I'm going to show you how to make your
very own holographic stickers. These are super fun and super duper easy, and you can really do these
with any kind of design that you want. I chose these cute
little Christmas cupcakes, but there are so many different
than cut options and you can even draw your own. You can even make these out of pictures
of your family if you wanted to date. Options for this are absolutely endless. The pack of holographic laminate
that I got came from Amazon, and I will link it down below. Make sure you just click the little arrow
under the video to expand the description section
so that you can find the links to the products
that we're going to use in this video. What I love is that this laminate came with a bunch
of different styles of holographic. So there's something for everybody. Let's go head over to Crickett
design space, and I'll show you guys how to let your cupcakes get
the most out of your print and cut area. And then we can laminate them
and we'll have this fun. Sparkly stickers. We're going to use some super cute stickers
that we got from design bundles, and don't forget
we have a code with design bundles you can just use code CORINNE
and that'll save you 10%. That includes regularly priced purchases
and on their large bundles. So I've got this Christmas a cupcake
design, and I thought these were so cute. So what we'll do is we're going to click
download files. Then what you'll do is right here. What's this
Christmas cupcake sticker? Zip. Click on that. Now it's going to bring up another tab,
and then it's going to ask you where you'd like to save these. So I personally have a pretty organized
system. It's not great,
but I'm going to save these under my print then cut folder here, and you can see that
I have a ton of print and cut things. I actually need to organize this
a little bit better. So what we're going to do is click
Save now. For me, it brings up my folder down here, but you can just go into your folders
and find it that way. But all I need to do now
is we're going to take a look and kind of see what's in here
because she's got a lot of files. So let's see kind of what we have here. It looks like this is not something
we're going to need the vector version,
but we do have a little secret bonus. So let's see what the little secret
bonus is. We have one more sticker winter rabbit. So let's just take that.
Oh, how cute is that? So we got a little bonus sticker,
which is super fun. But then she also has everything pretty
well organized. You've got individual stickers. So looks like you can load them
each one at a time. She also has a folder called Hand-cut,
which I'm going to assume is probably them all on one page. But let's take a look. Yes, so that looks like
it's going to be all of them on one page. And then let's take a look at what
is under this cricket silhouette folder. My guess is that that's going to be set up
to cut with our cricket and silhouette. So it looks like it's going to be just one
single PNG to make the stickers without the offsets. So I think for us, it's going to make us make us a little more sense
if we load them individually. While that's going to take a little bit
more time, it's going to save us
a little bit more material. So let's run over to cricket design space
so I can show you how to upload over here in cricket design space. You're just going to start a new project
and click the word upload. Then right here, what's this image? Click Upload image. Then you can either click Browse
or for something like this. I just find it a little bit easier
if we actually just drag and drop, but we do need to make sure
that we extract our file . So what I'm going to do
is go back to my main folder, which is my Christmas cupcake stickers,
and I'm just going to click the word extract all
and then just click Extract. Yours might say
unzip or something similar, but that you have to do that
in order to access the files. I'm going to go ahead
and close the extracted one, and then we're going to go
with the individually stickers. Now you can see we have pages
and then a jpg. I prefer to use the PNG,
so I'm just going to start at number one and I'll show
you kind of what that looks like. So this is your PNG. It's going to look just like the JPG,
but I like to use the PNG. So we're gonna go ahead and drag and drop
number one. Just choose
complex really doesn't change anything. We don't need to do anything
to our stickers, so just click, apply and continue and then save it as a print ,
then cut image. Now we're going to need to do this for
all of the stickers that we want to use. Like I said, I'm doing it this way
so that I can save a little bit more like sticker paper when I do this
and I'll show you guys how to do that. So again,
I'll just show you one more time. Choose Complex, click Continue Applying, Continue
and then print, then cut image and upload. I'll go ahead
and finish entering all the other ones, and then I'll show you guys
how we're going to set these up to do the print and cut. Now that we have all of the images
that we want to use uploaded, we just need to select each one
by clicking on it right here on our recent uploads
and then click Add to Canvas. Now this can take a moment or two, so just give it a second
and it should catch up just fine. But when you upload a lot of print
and cuts, cricket design space tends to go a little bit slow. Now that everything is in our cricket
design space, I'm actually going to
just move them over a little bit just to get them out of the way,
because what we're going to do is make a template for our print,
then cut size. So what I'm going to do is open up
the shape and open up a square. Then all I'm going to do is unlock
my square and I want to make my width at 6.75 and my height at 9.25. That is the largest area that you can do
a print thing cut image now. Obviously, these are way too big for that. Plus that's a pretty big sticker,
a sticker. So really, you got to figure out about
how large you want to make your stickers as far as like width and height. I'm usually like a three inch
or depending on what I'm using them for. But let's see how three inches does I'm going to just change them all to three
inches. Now you can see how it goes behind
our square. We don't want that. So what I'm going to do is right click on
the square and just send it to the back. That way, I can put all of my stickers
on to my square. Now, if I want to make sure
that I get as many on here as I can, I'm going to select the square
and the Santa Clause. I want to go to a line
and I'm going to align it left and then I'm going to align and align
it top. That is going to have it at the very, very possible edge
that we can actually do it with. So what I'm going to do is just change
all of these down two to three inches, and we're going to figure out
about how many we can fit on here. You can put them pretty close together. So again, this one, I'm
just going to select that one and the cupcake here and the square align
and just align up top. Now you can do this
with multiples at once. It's really up to you
how you want to do it, but I'm just going to go ahead
and individually line them up. So we'll go ahead and sneak them in here
and we'll get him aligned to the top as well,
and we'll go a line in a line top. Now we can start kind of going through and I'll just go ahead and set these
all on to our page. As we wait here, I'll get this all done
and then we'll check it out when we're finished now from here, it's really up to you
how you want to do this. If you'd like to make more of these
to kind of cover the space or whatever you'd like to do,
so I think I'll go ahead and just duplicate this one
just to fill up some space. But again, you don't have to do this. This is just personal preference. I like to kind of try
to make as many as I can because I like to really take up
as much of my paper as possible. So I'll duplicate some of them,
make them smaller. You can always use these in your planters
and stuff, too. So if you have like little small stickers
like this little Santa guy, you can like use these in your planters. So since they're a little bit smaller,
so that's filling up pretty much about all the space
I think I can fill. So what I'm going to do now is hide
the square by using a little eyeball in our Layers tab
and you'll see our square goes away. The next thing I'm going to do
is select all of my stickers, and I'm just going to double
check my sizing. So you'll see that at 6.74 wide,
an 8.80, six high. That's perfect. I can absolutely print and cut that. So what I want to do now is
I want to click the word attach. What that does is it tells cricket
design space not to move anything. When I click make it
that this is the way I want it laid out. So don't move it because you don't
do a good job organizing my files. We all know cricket design
space isn't great at it, and they don't fill
all the possible space. That's why
I like to individually do it by myself. Now all we have to do is click Make it once you click Make it. And again,
this may take a moment to kind of load. Sometimes it can be a little bit slow. So if your image doesn't show up
right away, just give it a minute or two and it'll show up. So there is our image
you can see it fits perfectly. Now, a lot of people keep freaking out and saying, Oh, cricket
design space expanded its print size. That's actually not true. While your square is going to be larger
than the 6.75 by 9.25, meaning
this black square around your images that is always going to be larger
because it needs space to read the registration
marks around your stickers. You still can only print 6.75 by 9.25. I do have a hack for printing full pages. I will link that down below. I also have a video showing silhouette
because they do a larger print than cut area. That a link below. And then the new Starcraft
solo also can print way larger, and I'll link that video down
below for you as well if you're looking for ways to do
print than cuts. So now all I have to do is click Continue, and you're going to use some options here to print these
and make sure they look really good . So what I'm going to do is click
Send to printer. Now this does take a second to load, so just give it a minute again
because it's a little bit slow. So what I'm going to do
is make sure I have the correct printer selected, I'm using my inkjet printer,
not my sublimation. So I want to use my 2720 network printer. I only want to make one copy of it,
but you can always tell it you want more
if you want to make a bunch of these. Then all I want to do is turn on my system
dialog by using that little button. Now your system dialog may not appear
right away, so give it a moment. And if it's still taking a while,
check on your toolbar at the bottom of your screen
to see if it did come up. All you have to do from here is click
print. It's not going to print to your printer
just yet. Give it just a moment, and it will
bring up that system dialog for you. This is one of my favorite things to do,
because I think you're going to get a really high quality print
by following some of these simple steps. Once your system dialog pops up,
make sure that the same printer is selected as you selected
and your print setup. I'm using that at 2720,
which is an Epson printer. What I want to do is click preferences. It's going to bring me up some options,
so I find that using the plain paper bright white paper works great for the Starcraft printable vinyl,
which is what we're using for this. But I do want to change my quality
to high. The next thing I'm going to do
is under more options. Under more options, you'll see that
you have a couple of different things that you can choose. But right here is where
we're going to choose a couple of things. We're just actually really
just going to turn off high speed print. High speed print is fine if you're not
printing something super colorful, but that tends to leave those lines
in your prints when you print them. So it's really important that you turn off
high speed print. Once you're done here, click OK. Then all you have to do is click print. I need to load my printer because
I don't have it loaded with my paper, but I'm a load of my printer. I will show you the paper that it
print it on, and then I'll show you guys how to lay down this
awesome holographic laminate sheet. We're going to turn these adorable cupcakes into some holographic
stickers, so I got this holographic sticker paper off of Amazon,
and I've got a couple of different styles. So here we have some stars. There are just dots. We have butterflies. Hearts, oh, and then there's this one
that looks like fractured glass, which I love,
this is the one we are going to use today. I think that one's going to be
really pretty on these stickers. So what we want to do
is to trim this down a little bit so that it fits within the square here
because cricket designed so it doesn't always really love to read
when you have a holographic sticker. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going
to kind of give it a little cut. This does have a grid on the back, so
it's pretty easy to cut it so that it is straight without, you
know, having to like, pull it up to it. I'm not great for cutting straight lines,
so let's just be honest. Not a skill I have. So then what I'm going to do
is then cut of this direction. So I'm just going to get it
kind of lined up here, and I'm
just going to give it a little snip snip. And then we're
just cut it along that line. So that way it fits within our square and it's not going to be over our lines
because that can cause some problems. So now what I'm going to do is take this
and I want to just peel the backing off of it
just a little bit. So I'm just going to start it
just a little. So you can see here, I'm kind of
peeling the backing back just a smidge, and I'm just going
to fold it over on itself. That way, we have a little flat piece. Then what I want to do is take my laminate
sheet here, and what I'm going to do is line it up as straight as I can
without getting it into. The top into the line,
I'm going to lay it down, then next,
all you need to do is take your squeegee. And this is worse, which is super helpful. It's kind of run it down your laminate sheet here and you kind of can't see. But all I'm doing is just kind of take
my squeegee going back and forth and pushing my laminate sheet down as I go so that it's going to give us no bubbles. It's going to look really nice and it's
going to look really professional. So we're going to go ahead
and just press this down all the way down. And you can do this
with any of the stickers that you want. So if you have a specific style
that you want to do or a specific set of stickers,
this is a really fun laminate to use. All right. Once we've got that all press down,
look how sparkly. They're really cute. We are going to use a blue mat
to cut this out. Now I'm going to cut this
on the light card stock setting. I'm going to cut it once
and we'll see how it does. I did a couple of test cuts
and it was kind of inconsistent, so I would recommend doing some test cuts
and figuring out what works best. But we're going to do
just a light card stock setting for these. So what we'll do
is we're going to load the machine and you want to get this straight
as you can. So that was very not straight. So you try to get this very,
very straight. So line it up against the side of your mat
and you want to make sure that you have it facing the same way
it was facing in design space. So you want to
just make sure that you have that well lined up, then I'm just going
to press it down with my hand. Make sure it's well pressed down
when to go ahead and pull the machine in a little bit
so you guys can see just a little bit better
as to what we are doing. And the one thing that I may need to do,
and I'm going to go ahead and do it, I'm going to turn off the
ring light. That's back here. It's going to get a little bit dark. I apologize, but you
sometimes need to turn your light down. So I turn that big light off. I have my overhead still on that way,
you guys can see. But what it's going to do first
is measure my mat and it's going to press it back out
now that it knows that we have enough. And then what's going to ask me to do
is to press the little go button. It will then scan my lines, check my tool and start cutting out my designs. So now that it's done, cutting
what I want to do is I'm just going to take my pen
pen and I just want to check the cut on one of the stickers
because I want to make sure cut through. I don't think it did, though
it doesn't feel like it did. So let me just kind of
just double check it. I don't think that it did. It did not. I don't think so. I'm not always super confident. So if I'm not super confident, like I'm
not right now, I'm going to take this sticker
and just sort of bend it a little bit. It definitely did not. OK, so what we'll do now is what you're not going to unload,
do not unload your mat. Whatever you do,
just hit the go button again because it's going to go ahead
and cut exactly where it cut before. If you unload this,
it is going to mess up where it cut and it will be off center
and you'll have these extra random cuts. So we want to make sure that it cuts in
exactly the same place that it cut before. So it's going to go ahead and cut
again in those same places. So now I'm going to check my car again, just to see
again, I can just pop it up like this and kind of do it like pull up a corner
and all of you guys can really see that it cut perfectly. So we're going to go ahead and unload. So now we have these gorgeous
holographic stickers. Let me slide the machine out of the way,
and I'm going to turn this light back on. So we are bright against
you guys can actually see now when you unload your stickers,
I recommend rolling it over and kind of rolling your mat off
of your sticker paper. I always recommend also making sure
you keep the plastic on your mat, and a lot of people didn't realize that
you should, but you definitely want to because it helps protect it from
getting any kind of dirt or debris on it. So now we have these stickers now. one thing that you can do if you want to make this
a full sticker sheet, which is what we're going to do with this. Just take your scissors and cut along
that edge, or you can use a paper cutter. It's up to you. I didn't feel it getting my paper
cut outs of scissors. What we'll do
is we're going to cut off the edge first and now cut this edge. These are so stinking cute guys. I'm super excited about these. They're so pretty. This holographic laminate is amazing,
and it comes in so many fun like designs,
so it's really, really fun. So now we have this whole sticker sheet. So one thing you can do, you can honestly just leave it like this
with the extra holographic on it. Or you could peel
the holographic paper off if you want to. So you can kind of
peel off this backing portion if I can get my pin
pen to grab both of them. Sometimes
I can never get these two separate and sometimes they separate
like no problem. So you can do it like this
where you peel it and you'd have like just your stickers. But I think I kind of like it
with the holographic background, so I'm gonna go ahead and leave that.
But look how beautiful. So let me get you guys a really good
look at these stickers. Tada, here's the finish stickers. They're super sparkly. And you thought it was really easy to do. You can really use this
for just about anything that you'd like to make with print cut,
and I think it could be really fun. Like I said, you can find all the links for
all the products that we use down below. In the video's description,
you may need to click the little arrow to expand that description
to find everything. If you have any questions about this or any other crafts, please
let me know in those comments down below. I'm always happy
to answer your questions for you. Be sure to subscribe to my channel. Put up new videos all the time. I hope you guys had so much fun learning
how to make your very own holographic sparkly stickers. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.
