It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Okay, so maybe spooky spider banners weren't your thing, so now we'll go for something cute and sweet instead of something creepy crawly. So this time around it's singing pumpkin stickers!
Okay, so full disclosure, I didn't think about photography when I decided to do this on holographic sticker paper. The colors are in fact not a crazy rainbow color and totally would've looked better in photos on regular sticker paper.
Anyways, if you would love to adorn things with adorable singing pumpkins, let's start.
First, download the SVG files here!
Please keep in mind that by downloading these you are agreeing to only use them for personal projects, none of the designs from Lunita Paperie are to be sold, redistributed, because.. well that's my job! Please let me keep my job, I quite like it!
Basically this is as far as you need to read if you're just cutting a sheet of them or you want to die cut it as is with the SVG provided.
I like to die cut stickers and pass them out for party favors. My son's last birthday was fire rescue themed so I cut out a bunch of custom badges and the kids slapped them on along with some hats and vests and terrorized everyone at the park trying to rescue them from imaginary fires. That being said, I like to make my die cut stickers easy peel.
The holographic sticker paper in particular is kind of a pain to peel, so that's why you see a double cut on my stickers in the photos. If you'd like the see the steps in doing that for Silhouette, read on.
*Disclaimer: As far as I understand, you need at least the Design Edition of Silhouette to use layers. If you don't have this a trick to achieving the same thing is just running your cutter twice, once on sticker paper mode, and then a second time to cut a larger, offset layer to cut all the way through the sticker sheet.
So you want to set everything up as shown above: you'll need your PNG image, the SVG set to cut, and then do offset on the SVG to create a second cut. You can offset as much as you want, I believe mine was at .1 but you can make it more or less depending on how much space you want between the actual sticker and the edge. And then center them all together so everything is lined up!
Now comes the oh-so fun part. Messing with layers! Again, you'll need Designer Edition for this part. The layers panel is at the bottom as highlighted, you'll want to click it and then click that "+" button two more times. You will now have a total of three layers. Drag one item into each layer by selecting its name and putting it in a layer. Whenever you select one it will highlight the image or part selected with a faint square around it.
Select each part-- and by the way if you're getting confused as to what's what, just separate each part (image, SVG, offset) and then you can align them back after. Now name each part and layer for your own sanity's sake as shown on left. This way, when you get into the cutting section, you won't be confused on which part you're telling your machine to cut and how. And remember, your "Sticker" layer should be the SVG layer, the "Die Cut" layer should be the offset shape you created.
Now that everything is named, head on over to the "Send" panel and select "Layers" and you will see that all three of your layers are there BUT that there's a square around your image and it's set to cut. You don't want this to cut, so you need to deselect it by unchecking the box for that layer.
And then for the other layers you'll want to set them to whatever your sticker paper requires. The "Sticker" layer should only cut through the sticker part of the paper, not the backing. The "Die Cut" layer should cut through the whole thing. For the die cut layer I just use the same as I do for 80lb card stock because, if you recall, mine was holographic sticker paper so it's a bit thicker.
So you have everything set for that sticker to cut correctly now. But now you want to make the most of your sheet's real estate and copy and paste them to fill it to the brim. Don't. Copy + Paste, Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V (sorry Mac users), don't work well with layers. You need to select all 3 layers, right click, and duplicate. This preserves all of the organized chaos you set up earlier and saves you from having to do the whole layer business 6+ times.
And that's it, congratulations you have survived the Layers panel! Print and cut those bad boys!
Pass them out for Halloween, decorate your water bottle, decorate your kids! And if you do, take a (much better) picture and share!
