whats good all, so I posted this idea in the sticker cult a while back and didn't have enough time or willpower to make a guide on how to do it, but now that its summer, infinite time is on my hands son. Here it is!
1. Gather materials. You will need:
A LASER PRINTER. an ink-jet printer WILL NOT WORK. Color and black/white laser printers both work. I have a Brother color laser printer.
A laser-printed image you would like to turn into a sticker. (I print the same image 2 times on the same page so that the toner will layer up and make a more defined sticker.)
Scissors
Packaging Tape
2. Take a strip of packaging tape, and lay it over your soon-to-be sticker
3. Lay tape strips over the entire image, overlapping the tape by a cm or two. then, using fingernails, scissors, or your moms favorite plastic toy, remove bubbles/folds. even if you cant get the bubbles out, its a homemade ghetto sticker, make another
4. Cut out the shape of the sticker. MAKE SURE TO LEAVE EXTRA BLANK PAPER ON THE EDGES OF YOUR IMAGE. The places where the toner is will not be sticky when you are done, so you gotta make sure theres some extra space of white paper on the side.
5. once you have your sticker cut out, get a fat bowl of hot water, and put your sticker in and let it soak for 30 seconds or so. The hotter the water the easier it will be to remove the paper material.
6. Use a finger of your choice to rub the paper off the back of the sticker. The water will make it easy to rub off. Be gingerly as rough treatment on a piece of tape can cause frustrating rips or tears :(
7. once you manage to get the paper off, you will have, roughly, a wet sticker. Let it dry for about an hour. If you come back and there is still paper on it, don't hesitate to remoisten it and rub more of the white stuff out of it (no homo)
8. Slap that shit wherever you want, and savor the looks and the "are you spancerziezed by Jibrash??!1!?" comments from admiring park rats as you lamp in the park with a freshass j-crown on your helmet. Enjoy!
