Homemade Stickers with Acrylic Paint

Homemade Stickers made using Acrylic Paint

You want to create stickers to apply to your paintings, sculptures, or to decorate a flat surface? Amylee will show you the steps to follow to create original, textured stickers with sharp edges. The method is inspired by Nail Art, and it is very easy!

Step 1:  Materials

For this project, you will need:

• Parchment baking paper
• Acrylic Paint
• 2 Flat brushes
• Acrylic clear varnise (glossy Liquitex)
• one cutter and a pair of scissors
• a pencil
• 1 roll of transparent scotch tape
• 1 roll of masking tape
• glitter (if desired)

Step 2: The process

1. Base:

Cut out a sheet of parchment baking paper and secure the 4 corners with masking tape. With the transparent scotch tape draw a square in the center of the sheet.

2. Colour:

First apply a layer of acrylic varnish inside the square and above edges of the scotch.
As soon as the #1 varnish is dry, apply in the same square a layer of acrylic paint of your choice. When the paint is dry, apply a second layer of varnish to avoid the sticker tearing during handling.

Allow the #2 varnish to dry. The more layers of paint or varnish you have, the longer the drying time will be. You can reduce the drying time with a hair dryer.

3. Cutting:

Once the second varnish layer is completely dry, peel off the baking paper. The square sticker must come off entirely. If it resists, it’s not dry yet. Using scissors or a cutter, remove the 4 edges of tape from your square sticker.

Fold the baking paper sheet and place the square sticker in the middle. We can see it through the paper. With a pencil, draw the new shape you want to give to this square. Hold the square sticker on the parchment baking paper and cut following your drawing.

Create your own shapes, add glitter and use them to decorate objects.

Step 3: It’s your turn

Here we go, your turn to create your own stickers now!! I am sure that this tutorial will be useful as it may be for me when adding motifs to my artworks!

Information for this article was provided by professional fine artist, Amylee Paris. You can visit her colourful portfolio or follow her on Facebook and Instagram. 

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