I am currently helping plan two parties for important people in my life: a first birthday for my nephew, and a party celebrating the recent marriage of my brother-in-law and his wife.
I came across a pin on Pinterest on how to make monogram stickers using Avery labels. I thought having a custom sticker on dessert bags/boxes would look awesome, so, I moved on over to Avery.com to check out their templates. They have soooooo many products to choose from.
I went with the 2in. circles below.
Here is how to navigate to the templates below:
Since I already knew the product I was using, I was able to search for it.
Once the product is selected, Avery already has a ton of really great designs that can be customized using text boxes. I went with a custom design I made myself since I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.
I used PowerPoint to come up with my design using a circle shape so I could change the background and add textboxes, etc. Then I saved it as a "JPG File Interchange Format" to upload the image onto the sticker. This method of saving as a JPG doesn't always come out the best, so the other option is to save the file as a PDF and find a PDF to JPG converter online.
Also on Pinterest, I found a site with the most amazing free font downloads. Where has this been all my life?!? Go to Dafont.com IMMEDIATELY!! I am so mad I didn't find it sooner, but so glad I did. There are so many to choose from! It was hard not to download them all! Here are a mere 25 of my favorite fonts, with links in the caption (fonts are free for personal use and they all have licensing terms):
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| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 |
So once you have your stickers designed, you're all ready to print! Start by printing only one sticker at a time, or else you'll get a full sheet of papers that look like this:
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| What the hell is that white space on the right side?!? It didn't look like that in the preview! |
Make sure you use the "printer adjustment" to get your stickers just right.
I had to go back into the design screen and move my sticker around a little bit to get them just right.
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| So hard to decide which one to use! I think I'm going with the plain pink background. |
So excited to use these at upcoming parties!
