This week, I went a little wild with my sticker designs and had a lot of fun doing it! There is a lot more than I had planned for now, but I’m really excited for all of them to come to life and for you all to see!
With some thought about the demand I might expect from buyers at the market, the big thing I thought of was nostalgia! We love our Y2K themed things nowadays so I thought I would profit on that a little bit by creating a CD sticker design and a goldfish or fishy cracker design. I also tried out an ipod, but that one didn’t end up looking all that great. I also added a couple new houses because I find it really fun to draw those. Another addition, is the submarine window with a deep sea view.
For those teachers out there, and by specific request from Meaghan Leong, I also made two stickers sheets. One with a variety of fruits and one with ice creams! I think these would be so cute to use for student work or crafts.
Although Nova Long and I have got our designs down, the issue now is how we will be making these designs into stickers. Our initial plan was to use a cricut, but with no prior experience with a cricut, this proved to be a lot more complicated and time consuming. Kudos to Nova for struggling through that in my stead. Now, our backup plan is to use a separate source, which we found online. Sticker App is a great company we found that has fair prices for custom sticker printing and if we order now, the stickers should be here at least 5 days before the market, which is pretty risky, but it seems like our best shot for now.
Picture Book Update: My reading break has been consumed by the stickers so I haven’t made any more progress on my picture book. However, being home, I now have a hold of the first picture book I made a couple years ago and I’ll be bringing it back to Victoria to use as inspiration and to share with you all.
The book description: “A collection of moments in life that are often taken for granted and forgotten in a world consumed by busyness and technology” What is a little thing in life that you often take for granted? Whether it be a moment, a certain smell, or feeling?
Here are some of my favourite spreads in the book:
novalong
Your stickers are aMaZiNg!! You need to get your own table, you’re going to make my stuff look bad;) Just kidding. I can’t wait, it’s going to be so fun!!! Sorry to abandon you for the sticker making, I spent way to much money on Cricut supplies already…
On another note… Your story book is SO GORGEOUS. And poetic too!!
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Yireh!
Ahhhh I am genuinely astonished by your work, you’re truly so good and I am eagerly waiting for the final product. We must read it to our link2practice students when it is complete, I know they will be amazed by you as always.
These stickers also look fantastic; I love hearing about all your projects, but actually getting to see your final products is even better.
When is the artist’s market again? I would love to stop by and get some stickers.
Joanna Lake
Oh, Yireh. Your book is stunning. Thank you for sharing.