{"id":4705,"date":"2011-07-17T00:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T07:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:51:06","slug":"custom-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/custom-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom stickers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love stickers. My sticker books made out of construction paper from childhood have been lost to time and moves, but I still have my giant Lisa Frank<\/a> sticker holder.<\/p>\n

It took me a long time to put a sticker on a laptop, but it finally happened with my beloved pink mini9 when my abuse of the poor netbook caused very visible scratches to form.<\/p>\n

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So, why the sticker story? Custom stickers!<\/p>\n

Of course I knew services providing custom stickers existed, but it never really thought much about making my own until I snagged a LivingSocial deal for Vistaprint<\/a> last month. Upon reviewing their offerings I was impressed by their little round stickers (“Small Sticker – Circle” in their catalog), so I ordered 5 sheets of them with the Ubuntu Women<\/a> circle logo and paid a $.99 per sheet extra for the “Glossy Sticker Stock” which I figured would hold up better on laptops.<\/p>\n

I received my first shipment on June 28th!<\/p>\n

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I immediately shipped out a sheet of stickers to Valorie Zimmerman<\/a> and one to Cheri Francis for upcoming conferences they are attending. The quality of the stickers is pretty good, but I don’t know how it’ll hold up on laptops, the gloss isn’t quite what I’ve seen on the more durable stickers. Time will tell! I’ve had one on my netbook since I received them and it has been doing alright so far.<\/p>\n

Since I was happy with the order and they had offers for some free goodies, I went ahead and ordered 3 more sheets of stickers.<\/p>\n

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And also ordered 500 business cards, 100 post cards and 25 magnets, which were all “free” in my order – just paid the fee to upload a custom image ($5 – and the image could be reused across products, so business cards and post cards had the same image). The cards will be super useful but I have to admit that the simplicity of the written logo on the magnet has really captured my enthusiasm. In all it ended up being quite a good deal, so I highly recommend taking advantage of these deals from Vistaprint when they come up.<\/p>\n

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This whole blog post is not actually<\/em> a Vistaprint love fest, they aren’t the only sticker game in town! I ordered business cards from MOO<\/a> several months back and received an email from them advertising a discount on stickers. So, what other project am I involved with that could use some inexpensive publicity? Partimus<\/a>! So for about $10 shipped I ordered a little book of 90 stickers.<\/p>\n

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The options for stickers are certainly limited with MOO (no small round ones, for instance) and the price is a bit steep when compared to a place like Vistaprint, but the quality is top notch. I have no worries about how well these stickers will hold up. I was able to meet up with fellow Partimus volunteer Grant this week and give him a pile of them to sticker up the town with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love stickers. My sticker books made out of construction paper from childhood have been lost to time and moves, but I still have my giant Lisa Frank sticker holder. It took me a long time to put a sticker on a laptop, but it finally happened with my beloved pink mini9 when my abuse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}