When my group accepted The Character Cafe Design Team position, we were asked to prepare a Work It Wednesday post for a chosen date and topic during our term. I {Billie} chose Stickles as my tutorial for today. I hope you have learned something from our past Work It Wednesday posts and that you can use some of this information too. :O)
Stickles are a small bottle of Acid Free “glitter glue” used to add BLING to pretty much any project. They are available in an array of colors! Michaels and Hobby Lobby carries them, as well as many, many online retailers. They run $1.50 to $2 a bottle, depending on where you purchase them!
Here I will show several ways I’ve used Stickles, as well as included 101 uses for Stickles, which you may copy & paste into a Word document. This is not my creation and I honestly don’t know where it originated. It has been bouncing around in a few of the Yahoo groups I belong to! If this is your information, please let me know and I’ll give credit where credit is due! :o)
For the first photo, I used our school colors (maroon and gold) to cut the word “Read” on the Mickey & Friends Cricut Cartridge. I layered the two pieces together and used Black Diamond Stickles around the edges of the letters to make them stand out.
Here I have cut my name on the Cricut, shaded it in with a little purple ink and completely colored the letters in with Lavender Stickles. Don’t mind my messy handwriting! I wasn’t intending on leaving that part in the photos, but it worked. ;o)
For this one, I covered this dark brown Prima flower with Diamond Stickles to give it an all-over bling effect.
For this little pink flower (can’t remember if this was a Prima!), I used Icicle Stickles to add a little bling to the center.
This is a little hard to see, but if you click on the photo, you should see a slightly bigger image that you can hopefully see! I cut a “Drippy Goo” SVG on my Cricut and added some Stickles to give them different effects. For the top one, I used Ruby Slippers to give a “bloody” look. This would be cool on a Halloween page or card. For the bottom “goo”, I used Frosted Lace Stickles to give an “icicle” effect.
This paper doll is one I made a while back. She was cut from the Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge. I used Black Diamond Stickles on the details of her tutu and Cotton Candy Stickles to color in the hair bow and shoes. She usually hangs above my desk, but I took her down (temporarily) for this photo! ;o)
For this spider web patterned paper, I added Diamond Stickles to only a portion of it to let you see what a difference it would make.
Hopefully between my examples above and the list of uses below you will find some information useful for this week’s challenge!
Your challenge for this week is to use Stickles to add bling to your project! Upload your photo to The Character Cafe blog, NOT here! ;o)
101 Uses for Stickles
1. You can use Stickles to outline the letters in your titles.
2. You can use Stickles to outline the patterns, pictures & designs on your patterned papers.
3. You can add a little shimmer by spreading it around with your finger!
4. You can use Stickles on handmade cards.
5. You can use Stickles to make flowers glittery.
6. You can use Stickles to make “glitzy photo corners!”
7. You can use Stickles to make firework photos glittery!
8. You can use Stickles to make the “trails” from butterflies and dragonflies.
9. You can use Stickles to do doodle dots and stitches.
10. You can use the clear one which is AWESOME on stickers etc. to really make them look special. The Basic Grey cardstock stickers become 3-D and really spectacular! !
11. You can use Stickles to outline the veins in leaves.
12. You can use Stickles to add to the clothing on Bella stamps to make the girls look ready for a night on the town!
13. You can use Stickles to make brads sparkly!
14. You can use Stickles to make ribbon sparkly!
15. You can use Stickles to make icing on cupcakes and cakes shimmer.
16. You can use Stickles to make waves look 3-D.
17. You can use Stickles for making cherries/fruit shimmer as if wet.
18. You can use the color Orange to make the “fire” on the end of a birthday candle!
19. You can use Stickles to make rain drops or water drops from a watering can.
20. You can use Stickles to make fairy dust around a fairy’s wand.
21. You can use Stickles to decorate your kids school supplies instead of buying designer stuff.
22. You can use Stickles to cover entire cutouts.
23. You can use Stickles over the designs on grunge board. It looks great!
24. You can use Burgundy Stickles as the perfect color to add blood droplets on your Halloween LO’s.
25. To cover clear embellishments entirely and make them oh so sparkly!
26. You can use Stickles under transparencies, to adhere them. Looks great for bubbles.
27. You can use Stickles for decorating t-shirts. When they’re worn down, ripped or you tired of them, cut out the design and scrap it. More mileage this way.
28. You can use dots made with Stickles to border a page!
29. You can use Stickles for slug trails.
30. You can use Stickles for snail trails.
31. You can use Stickles to decorate tennis shoes.
32. You can use Stickles to decorate buttons.
33. You can use Stickles to decorate ribbons.
34. You can use Stickles to make a spider web sparkle in a Halloween LO.
35. You can use Stickles on handmade tags.
36. You can use Stickles to add bling to hats or crowns.
37. You can use Stickles to make jewelry gleam!
38. You can use Stickles to make belts shine!
39. You can use Stickles to add pizzazz to purses & some shine to shoes!
40. Add Stickles to all or any misc accessories! (whether it be in a LO or IRL.That’s up to you! LOL!)
41. Add stickles dots to decorate lots of things, especially stamped swirls or flowers.
42. You can use Stickles generally anywhere on your LO, just to add some bling!
43. You can use Stickles to highlight just one letter in a title and make it POP!
44. You can use Stickles to make a circle or square of dots to frame closely in on a face or object in a photo.
45. You can add Stickles to the center of flowers.
46. You can run Stickles along swirly-swirls!
47. You can use a line of Stickles to make a thin (or thick!) border around anything (or everything!) on your page.
48. You can use Stickles to highlight the shadow on stamped letters.
49. You can use Stickles to stamp with them!
50. You can use Stickles to embellish concert LO’s.
51. You can use Stickles to make flourishes on your flourishes and make them look embossed.
52. You can use your Stickles to add bling to a star.
53. You can add them to flames to make them shimmer, glow & come alive!
54. You can use the color Cotton Candy to enhance.Um, well, Cotton Candy!
55. You can use the Candy Cane Stickles for.Candy Canes!
56. You can use the Icicle Stickles for.Icicles.
57. You can use Waterfall Stickles for.Water & Waterfalls.
58. You can use Orange Peel Stickles for.Oranges.
59. You can use Stickles to make the lines of a shooting star!
60. You can use Stickles on flowers to make them sparkle!
61. You can use Stickles as paint (dot a little then spread with paintbrush)
62. You can use Stickles to make a proper Disco Ball!
63. You can tear paper snow for cards or layouts & run Stickles along the top edge of the snow.
64. Stock up on the white/frosty colored Stickles.Stickle the paper or the ghost shape flakes.You can also stamp snowflakes and put Stickles in the center of the snowflake.
65. You can add Stickle to anything that you stamp!
66. You can use Stickles on paper piercings.
67. You can use Stickles on die cuts.
68. When using jewels, outline the jewel with Stickles.
69. You can use Stickles to outline a journal box.
70. You can use Stickles to decorate a cast.
71. You can use Stickles to decorate gift bags.
72. You can use Stickles to decorate wrapping paper.
73. You can use Stickles on feathers for Mardi Gras or Las Vegas LOs.
74. You can use Stickles with a stencil instead of ink.
75. You can print out stuff from Google, then add Stickles and top with Diamond Glaze to make homemade sparkly stickers!
76. You can apply Stickles to the top of Thickers.
77. When glitter comes off of stickers/paper, you can fill it in with Stickles to make it back to normal!.You can use Stickles to glue more glitter on top of the sticker!
78. You can use Stickles to make the eyes on a Disney Princess cut with your Cricut.
79. You can use Stickles to create rays of sunshine!
80. You can use your Stickles to create a rainbow!
81. You can use Stickles to make a heart (or hearts) shine!
82. You can use Stickles to make stars glitter & shine!
83. You can use Stickles to make moonbeams shine!
84. You can use Stickles on die cut Christmas trees to make the bulbs sparkle & shine!
85. You can add Stickles to your own Christmas ornaments or Christmas ornaments as gifts!
86. You can use Stickles to add shine to a trophy.
87. You can use Stickles to a title block.
88. You can use Stickles to add sparkles to a Shamrock.
89. You can use Stickles to add sparkles to an Easter Egg.
90. You can use Stickles to add rays of light to a Christian cross.
91. You can use Stickles to create firework frame around something (For example, a name or an object!)
92. You can use Stickles to make fish glimmer.
93. You can use Stickles to make water reflect (ocean, lake, waterfall, ripples, streams, fountain, aquarium, etc.)
94. You can use Stickles to make a reflective mirror.
95. You can use Stickles to highlight Art Deco from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s or 90’s found in the backgrounds of pictures.
96. You can use Stickles to highlight a monogram.
97. You can use Stickles on inchies.
98. You can use Stickles on tear bears.
99. You can use Stickles to add bling to automobiles.
100. You can use Stickles on your Disney Princess pages.
101. You can use Stickles on everything & anything & as long as you still have Stickles to use!
Thanks again for stopping by and please be sure to check back again!
Billie
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