Resizing Print and Cut Stickers

Hi scrappy friends!!

It’s Polly Monica here with a fun tutorial to help you get more out of your digi-supplies by resizing print and cut stickers. When I saw Becca Bonneville’s The Universe is Calling Sticker set in the store this weekend I knew they would be perfect for my planner spread a couple of weeks ago. This was the week that we went to see the Apollo 11 Back to the Moon Projection show on the National Mall.

I love using print and cut stickers, but often they are just a little too big at the letter size they are made in to fit into my planner. So, I decided to resize these stickers to half their size and fit two pages of stickers on one letter-sized sticker sheet.

I will describe my process for doing this and share a video I made that will also walk you through the process if you are more of a visual learner.

Here are the steps for resizing your print and cut files, tracing them, printing and sending them to your Silhouette cutting machine.

1. Import the “easy trace” .png file
2. Scale to 50% size (see image below)
   
3. Import the matching colored print & cut .png file
4. Scale to 50% size and place it over the easy trace file
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for a second letter-sized print and cut sheet
6. Move the colored print and cut files off of the work space
7. Trace the “easy trace” file by selecting trace area and then selecting trace
8. Place colored file back over the traced file
9. Send to the printer
10. Place printed sheet of stickers on the cutting mat and load into cutting machine
11. Under “send” panel select correct material. I used “Sticker Paper, White” and adjust cut settings to achieve a “kiss cut”. (see below)
    
12. Send to your cutting machine and watch it work!!

I used my paper trimmer to cut out two individual sticker sheets. I could see myself using this technique to print several sheets of stickers and clipping them together to make a sticker book.

The stickers turned out so cute!!! I love the adorable illustrations!

And, yes, I had a blast decorating my planner with them along with photos from my week!

If you use print and cut stickers in your planner or traveler’s notebook pages, I know you’ll love resizing them to this smaller size!

Here’s the video I recorded to show you the steps I described above:

Resizing Print and Cut Stickers from The Lilypad on Vimeo.

I hope you enjoy and would love to hear how you use print and cut stickers in your creative endeavors!!