hello so this video is gonna be a challenge so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna attempt to
design a new sticker sheet in an hour now some of you might think that's an easy challenge
others may think not i'm in the category of thinking it's going to be quite difficult
because i've spoken about this a lot this year but my perfectionism my perfectionist nature
like really stunts my growth when it comes to making new products and stuff so i feel like this
is gonna be a good challenge so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna set a one hour timer on my phone
and i'm gonna go through different steps so the first 10 minutes i'm going to spend researching so
i'm going to go on pinterest i'm going to look for ideas then i'm going to spend the next 10 minutes
sketching out my ideas then i'm going to spend 20 minutes drawing them perfecting them making them
how i like then i'm going to spend 10 minutes setting up the file i'm going to attempt to do
most of this in procreate because i've never actually made a sticker sheet solely from
procreate and then i'm just going to drag it into my laptop and add like my sticker sheet headroom
footer thing so i'll use illustrator right at the end and then once i've set up the file i need to
print it and cut it so i've given myself 10 minutes for that as well i have an hour on
the timer not that you can see that and we're just gonna we're just gonna go so i'm gonna make a new
board for this so let's just go straight in sticker sheet you could go on like
etsy i guess and look at different ideas this is quite cute do i want something colorful so maybe
plants because i was practicing drawing plants yesterday so i could kind of use that as like
i was basically doing a little bit of a plant study this is quite cute with like the wiggly
border at the top maybe some simple stickers in there as well colors is something i'm gonna
have to do in this research as well isn't it like maybe different options for colors
all right i've saved some pins let's go and look at my board
see what we've got so i do like this sketchy kind of vibe so i think i'm gonna go with that but then
fill it in with color i liked this it was like all of a similar tone i liked the colors of this
and then i enjoyed the banner at the top of this one so that was quite cute i'm gonna
download that too this color scheme super cute all like similar vibes and it's like what orange
cream pink black four colors so maybe like a four color scheme could be a good idea this i like i
like the style of the sketches quite cute plant style i don't know if this will do anything but
colors is where i i lose it it's just not my strong point and i really struggle narrowing
down what colors i want to use this is quite a cool combo like orange blue pink
obviously nothing to do with plants like maybe i could do a purple plant
who cares whether i've drawn a purple plant okay let's airdrop to my ipad do you know one thing i
can't remember is how big a sticker she needs to be for procreate not procreate cricut so i'm just
gonna go i'd rather do it bigger than smaller so i'll do a4 and then we'll resize it when we're
in cricut and let's airdrop myself can you see the timer i'll put it there so you can see what's
going on i think i've finally got it to work for some reason it just wasn't playing playing ball so
sketching time i've got 10 minutes to sketch i've actually got eight minutes to sketch you know what
i'm gonna you utilize this this was the sketch i was doing yesterday so straight up i definitely
want to use this plant on the right because it's my favorite plant so i'm gonna sketch that out
oh dear that looks nothing like how i wanted it to oh how long have we got three minutes
let's do a sunshine because plants need sun a little watering can
oh dear i'm over i'm over schedule maybe i should just go for it right what else you've got some
plants sunshine what else do plants like sun water soil air maybe a little rainbow nothing really to
do with plants but i like the idea i don't know what else to put on it but i've only got i'm like
way over time okay i don't know what else to put on it i've got a sketch so far kind of and i just
need to play around with the placement and i feel like i'm overthinking it which is moral moral my
life story of my life so we're going to go in and try and do some colours or at least some shapes
hey
i've really underestimated the amount of work this is
so this is the timer so right now i should be prepping it and getting it ready for print but
this is what i'm up to so i've sort of done like the first colors but that's all i've done
so i just need to carry on it's really tempting to like realize that i'm not gonna do it on
time and give up but i'm telling myself that it's okay not everything has to be perfect and
done is better than perfect so uh yeah any tips i think i just over shot having like this many
stickers maybe i should have just done one sticker in an hour okay i've been coloring
for a while this is the timer i'm not ready to print it yeah at all let me just show you this is
what i've got i think if i had more time i would like add some little stars and like stuff in the
background and then i'm going to add a title but i'm going to prep this ready for print so
originally i was going to do this in procreate but i think i might as well do it in photoshop
because it'll be quicker so i'm going to remove the background and i'm going to export this file
so i'm just going to share it as a png turn my laptop on and we're going to see how long this
is going to take i'm going to set like a stopwatch this time so i'm doing it in reverse i'm gonna aim
for like this whole prep thing to take 10 minutes because i've overrun i have like 20 minutes left
of work and 12 seconds to do it so right so i'm in photoshop i'm gonna get rid of that banner at the
top because that needs to be on a separate layer and then this bottom layer i need to
stroke which will add an outline to everything i'm actually gonna let me just press okay i mean layer
new fill layer solid color i'm just gonna fill it in black so we can see for now
what's going on and there's actually some extras there so it's sort of outlined everything
neatly but i do need to draw some in this is probably not the best way of doing it but just
for a time thing we're gonna give it a go so i'm just gonna brush in over these elements here
so there's no gaps do you know what the one thing i hate is the sun i just think that looks so
crap but whatever this is just an experiment i can't deal with that sun i need to delete that
sun let's just rearrange what we've got i'm gonna duplicate this spider plant thing and
attempt to change the colours quickly so even just painting the leaves pink i filled the gap in it's
not perfect but we're gonna have to deal with it i'm now gonna put it into cricut design space so i
need to file save as png i'm just going to save it to my desktop and then we'll put it on the cricut
hmm
i'm now importing into cricut design space so i need to upload images so i want to be complex
continue erase that background yeah print then cut complex continue continue print then cut
then we select both insert the images and zoom out so i can see what i'm doing there's that one
why is that blank so we've got the stickers but where's the plant thing it's not working
i don't understand i just had to quickly pause my timer
because i was so desperate for a wee and i was getting stressed because it wasn't working
but it won't let me put like the banner on top of the image and i don't understand why
hmm
do you know what i don't even know how long this has taken me now i've just set it up on the laptop
it's all ready to go i think the cricut is on but it needs to print first so i'm gonna get to
make it and it's set up on the map it's not awful i quite like the colors i'm glad i went with that
theme i need to send it to the printer and i want to use system dialogue and i don't want to add
bleed and usually when you open system dialogue it comes up behind everything don't know why let's do
high quality print because i don't think i have it set up let's just see what happens
whilst we wait for that to print let me get the mat ready as you can see they're very mucky
ready and then we can get it loaded on the cricut they're actually really cute look
at them they look so much better in person let's just load this on here i want it on sticker paper
removable put this back in the middle load that and press the arrows we're on the final
stretch i feel like it's probably taking me about an hour and a half in total let's go
all right she's done she's done i know i shouldn't do this on the carpet before anyone tells me
that's why my mats are so messy i know okay and here is the sticker sheet let's just have
a look so the drawings actually look a lot better than i thought they would so i'm very happy about
that however i've definitely learned a few things during this challenge firstly i take a lot longer
to do things than even i realize i'm glad i had the time pressure because i could have easily
carried on drawing and then never have printed anything whereas i think it's been about an hour
and a half i kind of just scrapped the timer so i think it's been about an hour and a half and i've
managed to create an actual thing which i'm really happy with so yeah close up i don't know if you
can see but the cut lines aren't done very well i haven't lined them up very well like this one
isn't lined up but the top one is you see this one super cute properly cut pretty even on both
sides but this one nowhere near you see this one is not even at all i mean that drawing is awful i
really like this drawing i'm very happy with this sticker i feel like i should make this a thing but
yeah so what have i learned i've learned i can do it i don't need to spend hours and hours and hours
creating things to make something that looks good i definitely need to work on cricut and
like lining things up better i think that's where you should spend the time making sure that when
it does cut it cuts right and also i definitely need to go into adobe illustrator and just neaten
up the lines because like especially this one my cricut is like fully eaten the paper so i'd need
to smooth these lines because like it's all like chewed up see how this is like really badly cut
i mean i'm quite happy with that it wasn't a success i don't think it was a complete failure
and i mean at least this one's cute right this is like sticker version of my favorite ever plant
so of all of them to be right i'm happy that that one was one of them alright thank you
for watching this video guys let me know if you'd like me to do any more kind of challenge
videos i quite enjoyed it i feel like it's good to challenge yourself creatively so i'm glad i did it
even though it didn't really go to plan so yeah i hope you enjoyed this video
don't forget to give it a thumbs up if you did and i'll see you next time for another one bye