In this course, we will walk through the process of creating beautiful and functional stickers for use in digital planners. We will cover everything from the tools you need to use in Adobe Illustrator, creating different styles of stickers, exporting & file types, creating digital sticker sheets for Goodnotes and other digital planning apps, and even packaging your new stickers to sell to customers.

What are functional digital planner stickers?

Digital planner stickers are images that are meant to be used in digital planning apps, such as Goodnotes, and act in the same way you would use a physical sticker in real life. Functional stickers have the purpose of drawing attention to or organizing specific information in your planner. These stickers have an emphasis on function, rather than being purely decorative. When comparing functional stickers to decorative stickers, think of highlighting notes vs. illustrating a picture of what the notes are about. Functional stickers focus your attention on the main points, while decorative stickers are more for enjoyment and visually pleasing. Functional stickers can still be visually pleasing while serving a purpose, which is what will be demonstrated in this course.

Types of Functional Stickers You Will Learn to Create:

basic shapes - boxes, circles, stars
custom shapes - flags, hearts, wavy boxes, sticky notes
text stickers - text in a shape, text with an outline
icon stickers - icons in a shape, icons with an outline
combining techniques for more complex stickers - checklists, appointment reminders, icon labels, weekly menu

Why You Should Take This Class:

Adobe Illustrator is the perfect program for creating digital planner stickers. It streamlines the process of creating stickers with vector tools that allow you to change shape, size and color with ease. Adobe Illustrator allows designers to align and format sticker sheets in an aesthetically pleasing way, and export individual stickers as well as an entire sticker sheet in various file types and resolutions.

This class will not only teach you how to make beautiful and functional stickers, but also how to format them in a way that is eye catching and user friendly. These skills are vital if you want to design custom stickers for your own personal use, or if you dream of starting a business and selling planner stickers.

This class discusses creating stickers specifically for digital planners, but the exact same methods can be applied to create stickers to print and cut out for physical planners as well.

Who This Class is For:

This class is geared towards individuals that have some familiarity with digital planning. Prior knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is great, but not necessary for this course, as all steps and tools will be explained in detail. Some familiarity with the app Goodnotes is helpful, but not necessary if you want to create stickers for personal use and are using a different app for digital planning. Familiarity with Goodnotes is recommended if you plan on selling digital planner stickers, as this is the most popular digital planning app on the market.

Materials Needed:

Required - you will need these to create digital planning stickers and complete project #1

Computer
Adobe Illustrator CC (desktop) - I'll be using the 2023 version!

Highly Recommended - you will need these to use your digital planning stickers and complete project #2

Goodnotes App - the most popular digital planning app & the one used to demo this class
- alternative digital planning apps: Notability, Noteshelf, ZoomNotes
iPad & stylus - some digital planning apps do have desktop versions which you could use on your computer instead of an iPad. You will have full functionality to follow along with all of the steps of this course using the Goodnotes desktop version - however, the iPad version is recommended as it is a bit quicker and more streamlined to use. I will be demonstrating steps using Goodnotes 5, an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

Are you ready to make beautiful digital planner stickers? Let's get started!

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Abeer Mustafa

Graphic Designer

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