| How to Screenprint Stickers | |
Article Created by Questioning Josh |
Equipment
I use a store bought Speedball printmaking set, from Pearl art store, for like 40 bucks. Micheals has them too for 30ish! The set comes with 2 screens, drawing fluid, screen filler and basic color inks. You can buy more colors that are more perament too.
Get alot of stickers (from post office, dhl, etc)
Step 1: Figure out your design
Get you design all finished up and happy with it.
Step 2: Drawing Fluid
With the drawing fluid, trace over the stuff u want to be inked. Make sure nothing is to light and see thru. Let dry until not tacky
Step 3: Screen Filler
With the screen filler, cover over the image. not to thick. Let dry!
Step 4: Water Rinse
Run under cool water and magically the blue is all gone, leaving an image to print. Let dry.
Note: the edges might be alittle fuzzy, if so with ur screen filler, touch them up.
Step 5: Wax Paper
i use wax paper around the image to block out ink from getting over the work area. I then line up the screen image to where i want it on the sticker and make a boarder so its easy to print quickly and in the same place.
Step 6: Ink & Squeegee
apply a few spoonfulls of ink to the screen and with ur squee-gee, slowly pull the ink towards you.
1 or 2 pulls is enough to cover the sticker
and never pull from a different direction, it could smear ink wacky
Step 7: Remove the Screen
after u apply the ink and pulled, lift the screen and ta-da, sticker!!!
Step 8: Repeat
repeat step 6 and 7 over and over and over
Step 9: Cleanup
when all done, wash everything, let dry. to remove the red screen filler use 'comet' cleaner!
So i hope that is somewhat helpful
in about 3 hours you got urself as many sticks as u want
ya you can get them made professionally with computers, but you save a few hundred bucks and you feel great cause its almost as good as hand drawning them all!
i liked these green postal ones alot, and made 124 of them tonight.