I've watched several videos on this and yours is by far thr best. And you even showed hiw to take away the extra pixels at the end for s nice clean cut, so helpful! Thank you!
Your video is a life saver. I've watched multiple videos teaching the same technique, but yours is by far the best. Thank you taking the time to do this!!!
My pleasure! And actually, since I did this video so figured out you can turn on colorfill in the automatic selection panel after you invert your selection it will fill in your shape automatically. It’s pretty sweet!
I could hug you!!! You have no idea how many videos I’ve watched trying to figure this out. So many of them don’t create a hard enough edge after the Gaussian Blur and a lot of them moved too quickly through some of it and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting the results they were. Your video is by far the simplest steps and the best end product. SO thankful I found this video!
Oh yay!!! Since I did this video though I figured out you can just turn color fill on (with white selected) instead of having to color everything in woh a brush. I’ve got another video coming soon with my tips for finishing stickers like a pro- and it will have that tip. But I’m pretty excited about that. ❤️ Thanks for the comment- it totally made my day!
Love this! I’ve been sticker making for almost a year now and your video taught me at least 10 new things that will make my stickering easier and more beautiful, particularly how to duplicate the canvas in the gallery (how did I not know how to do this!?) and how to remove the halo pixels so quickly (I literally gasped when I saw your method!). Thank you so much!! Also, I never use exclamation marks so much. Your video just brought them out of me 😁. You should be proud!
Wow! This is a wonderful comment to wake up to this morning. Thank you! One more quick tip that I figured out after I made the video- you can just select white as your active color and turn in color fill in selection and it fills it in automatically. So slick!
Finally found someone who could tell me how to remove that halo effect! Smart! I have done borders in different ways and this looks like an easy fix for when I do it wrong
THANK YOU for making this video! Finally, one that actually works!! And not only that, but you are such a good teacher that it was an absolute breeze to follow your instructions! Thanks again!
I reference this tutorial at least every other month! So helpful! I even discovered a print and cut work around to maximize the space on my sticker paper !
@@WellCraftedStudio you just upload the design into design space, create an offset and turn off the original layer (so you’re only working with the offset layer) then create a 8.5x11 rectangle and cut that from a 12x12 piece of scrapbook paper of card stock. Pull out the rectangle and leave the rest on the mat. This will be the template of where to place your sticker paper on your mat. Then cut from your offset layer! May take some tinkering and trial an error but you can use more of the 8.5x11 sticker sheets. I use this technique to cut my embroidery patterns from adhesive stabilizer!
Thank you! I watched so many of these videos trying to figure out how to outline my stickers. This is the first one that I could successfully follow, being a procreate noob lol
Oh I’m so glad! Now that you are a noob no more- be sure to check out my video on best tips for finishing your stickers. I have an updated trick using color fill that’s makes it even a little more fast and fun.
Hey! On step 6, a shortcut to not have to use a white brush & go over the layer is to (while inverted) add a new layer, select the White color, and just fill the layer. 😊 This is a great tutorial! Nice job
It can seem that way. But it’s easier then you’d think. Procreate can be as simple as drawing on a piece of paper. Or it can get as deep as graphic design software. I like that you can do pretty amazing things without it being complicated. ❤️ Thanks for commenting friend!
That jaggedness is the pixels. So they do show when you zoom in a lot. And then you don’t always see them when you zoom out. But sometimes the brush is just slightly jagged and that pixelated look is part of the stroke. Or if you tried to make the image larger then it originally was, it will get more pixelated edges. For sticker borders you want things as smooth as possible.
Can you do a tutorial on your sticker background brush? I didn’t see standard one on procreate and tried to see if you had a video available for the brush tutorial….or can you share on here how you made it? Thanks so much, this really helped. I kept doing other ways to do the background and it turned out nicely but they always were a bit pixelated around the edges and my cricut would cut those, so no smooth edges around my stickers.
Hi Demi! I do have the brush as a free download on my blog. But basically I upped the streamline, used a hard edge source shape, and removed all taper or pressure sensitivity. If you use a hard airbrush it’s probably comparable. There were a few other little mods I think too. But, I think a bit part of avoiding the jagged edges on Cricut is to use the clean-up trick I demo at the end of this video. So if you try it with a hard airbrush, or with my sticker brush and you’re still getting the edges be sure to try the clean up trick. If you’re STILL getting the rough edges it may be something else like the dpi of your canvas and the size Cricut is importing at. That’s just a guess though.
Oh good!!! The automatic selection is totally is a game-changer as far as cleaning up gouache brushes and the like are concerned. Thanks for leaving a comment!
This is the best instruction I've seen for creating borders. I am still confused about how to have my business name or logo on the sheet without it being cut. At the end when you have the two remaining layers...you don't need to merge them before turning them into a png and exporting? Thanks so much for the great video!
Nope! Don’t merge them. Just export as PNG. For the business name you can just upload it to Procreate as a .png if you have it like that. Then follow the same instructions to add the border.
@nadine k Do your print and cut sticker sheet with your name and logo grouped to your sticker sheet. Print the sheet. You want to go back hide the cut file for the name/logo in cricut design space in the layers menu, then continue and go on to cutting. Alternatively you can change the cut line around you name/logo to score, and then just dont put the scoring tool in the machine. It will go thru the motions but nothing will be scored or cut. Hope this was helpful. Cheers 😊✌️🎨 Edit: forgotten word
It’s something you can turn on in the brush studio. So if you tap your brush and then go to the “taper” you can turn on tip animation. That should do it.
All you have to do is go to my blog and subscribe. You get a password right away and that brush plus a bunch of others is in my free library. You can unsubscribe anytime with a link at the bottom of my emails. Here’s a link- wellcraftedstudio.com/procreate-sticker-border-brush/ Thanks for asking!
Hi Emily! Don’t worry! You probably forgot to invert after you selected so the color fill filled in the background instead of your image. You can switch the color fill off and only turn it on after you inverted or you can just ignore the panic when it fills the whole screen and hit the invert and it will flip. If that’s not what the problem is then you may have to adjust your threshold. In a separate step. So let me know if this works. 👍🏻
Online labels white glossy. I’ve tried others but some are a little more cream then true white. And the colors seem to show up with more vibrancy with this paper.
Right after I choose to invert bottom and select the brush and color, it won’t fill in inside the area it will paint where ever my brush touches. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Sildain, I’m guessing you missed something small. Like switching to a different layer? If a tutorial doesn’t work quite right for me I usually go back and repeat the steps. If it helps, I have a blog post that breaks it down step-by-step with photos. You might be able to see more easily where it went sideways. The link is in the description. Hope that helps!
I use a brush I made that is more streamlined and doesn’t taper so I get smooth hard edges. You can download it for free with the link in the description.
