Let’s Make Days Stickers on Procreate and Cricut Joy Xtra (or with Scissors)

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Elaine Vitikainen. I'm an illustrator and an entrepreneur from Helsinki. I love stickers, and I've been making stickers for as long as I remember, from drawing directly on label papers, then cutting them into squares to illustrating on my iPad, then cutting them by hand. But now I use a Cricut Joy Xtra to make my stickers. This makes sticker making more fun, relaxing and even addicting. I love to use my stickers on my journals. I sell them online. I give them to friends and family, and I also love to swap my stickers with other stationary enthusiasts around the world. I also love to journal. So in this class, we're going to make days of the week sticker sheets that you can use in your journals. We will design our stickers on Procreate, then cut them on a Cricut Joy Xtra. Alternatively, you can also cut this by hand if you don't have a Cricut Joy Xtra. By the end of this class, you will have beautiful days of the week sticker sheets that you've made yourself. I really hope to see you in class. 2. Class Project: For the class project, we will be making days of the week sticker sheets. We will design our stickers on Procreate, then cut them on the Cricut Joy Xtra. We would need an iPad, an Apple pen, or any stylus that you have, the Procreate, and the Cricut Design Space. We would need the Cricut Joy Xtra, the Cricut Joy Xtra mat, an A4 or letter size printable sticker paper, and a printer. If you don't have a Cricut Joy Xtra, you can just print this out and cut it by hand. I've provided a set of stamp brushes that I've created to use in our projects. You can find the brush set in a class resources section. 3. Preparing the Stickers: Now it's time to design our stickers on Procreate. So let's open Procreate. Hit the plus sign, and let's create our Canvas. I will set it at 4.5 x 6.5 inches and at 300 DPI for good quality printing. Hit Create, and now we can start designing our stickers. But before that, let's download the brush set from the class resources section. I have also prepared my color palette, but you can create your own color palette to go with your own style. Preparing your sticker sheet is so much according to what you like. For example, you can add a border on one side or both sides of your sticker sheet, where you can put information. For example, the name of the sticker sheet and information about yourself like your website. You can also add your logo and your signature. But for me, I want to have a minimalistic style where I can use as much space as possible to have more stickers on my sticker sheet. So I'm just placing this small information in the corner. You can also drop a color of your choice. I will fill mine with white. Now let's write the day. And I suggest starting with Wednesday because it is the longest word and it will determine the size of the other days. So let's choose a color for the font. Then go to actions add and add text. Choose font by clicking Aa. I'll choose DIN condensed. Let's write the text. Then I will choose a color, add a layer to stamp the background. Then I'll place this layer under. Let's resize this accordingly, making sure that the text is inside the stamp. Then duplicate the stamp layer as we will use this as the template for the other days. Let's combine the two layers - Wednesday and the stamp layer by pinching them together. Now we can do the same process for the other days. Choose a color for your font, then go to actions, add and add text. Choose font by clicking Aa, then write the text. Duplicate stamp layer, then place it under the layer with the day. You can now fill the stamp layer with a color of your choice by choosing the color and dropping it onto the layer. Now we can repeat the process for the other days. When all the days are complete, I will resize them. Then I will duplicate to have two sets. But this depends on how big you want your stickers to be. I will also add some elements that are commonly used in journaling, like dots and stars to fill the empty spaces. When it's done, I'll put all the stickers in one layer by pinching them together. Then I'll combine all the layers of the sticker sheets. Save the two files as PNG, then send them to the Cricut Design Space. If you're cutting this by hand, just print this out and it's ready for cutting. 4. Printing and Cutting the Stickers: Now it's time to print our sticker sheets. We don't need to have a Cricut subscription to do this. So here we are on the Cricut Design Space. Let's start a new project. Then upload the sticker sheet. Follow me in this process. Select the sticker sheet and set the size to 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Then duplicate the sticker sheet three times. But this depends on how sharp is your Cricut blade. If you think your Cricut blade is not anymore very sharp, you can add more layers. We're doing this so that we can trick the Cricut Joy Xtra to cut die-cut, which is the cut around the sticker sheets, and also to cut kiss-cut, which is the cut around the stickers. Select all the layers, then align and center. Now let's upload the stickers. Place the stickers on the sticker sheet. Let's enlarge this a bit to see better. Then attach. Then duplicate. We're duplicating so that we can print two sheets on an A4 or letter size sticker paper. Select all, then click align and center vertically. Then select all and attach. Be sure that the operation is set to print then cut, and the machine is set to Cricut Joy Xtra. Then make it. I will save my project. Follow me in this process. For the printing, let's remove the add bleed, but put the add system dialog on. Then hit Print. Look for the dialog box, then check that your printer is connected. Choose the paper size, the media type, and it's important to choose the best quality. Also, check that your printer has the right setting. Then hit Print. The printing is done, and now we will place this on the mat. Please be sure that this arrow is pointing the right way. Then we have to set the base material, and this really depends on the thickness of your sticker paper. I'm using a vinyl matte paper, and while experimenting with the cutting, the vinyl printable specialty works well for this paper and setting it to default. So choose which setting would be best for the paper that you're using. And most of the time, this would need a bit of experimentation. Then load the mat with the sticker sheets on, then go. Unload, and now it's ready. We have created two beautiful days of the week sticker sheets. 5. Thank You: Thank you for joining me in this class. I hope you enjoyed making your days of the week sticker sheets on Procreate and Cricut Joy Xtra. Please don't forget to snap a photo of your stickers and share them in the project gallery section. I really can't wait to see what you've created. If you're going to post your projects on Instagram, please tag me. I really want to connect with you. Also, please leave a class review. I would really appreciate it. And if you want to know more about sticker making, please check out my other sticker classes. Bye for now and see you again soon.