Anita's outline stickers

I tend to make all my cards by hand and I also stock three local shops with my cards, so I need to have the best supplies in order to make my cards stand out on the shelves. I predominately use Anita's outline stickers as I have found them to be the best on the market and they have the greatest range of stickers available. One sheet costs between 50p and £1.50 depending on where you purchase and what type of sticker it is. The main types of stickers Anita does is sayings and they are mostly in silver and gold (like most of them), however for certain occasions such as Christmas the colours vary more to suit more cards so you will be able to find green and red as well. There are also many different pictures that are available at the moment I have a large selection of men's (sports, boats, cars etc.), Christmas (candles, snowmen, Christmas trees) and Women's (fashion, masks, etc.) The stickers are available from most craft stores and from many online retailers. The stickers can be used for other projects such as scrap booking or to transform ordinary stationary such as notebooks.

The stickers are very easy to peel off and for the smaller stickers you could use craft tweezers to help, I only have small hands so I don't find this a problem. If you decide you do not want to use that particular sticker after removing it from the sheet, then it is no problem as you can simply reapply the sticker to the original sheet and you can use it when you wish to. I think this is very useful as I am always changing my mind and it means that I waste less than I would if this wasn't possible. If you do not place the sticker on correctly then you can easily remove and re-align it and when you are happy with the position apply firm pressure and rub over the stickers to ensure they stay in place.

There are many ways to use the image outlines, you can stick them directly to the card or to additional card and then attach this to the card to create a more 3D look. There are many ways to add colour to the stickers to make them more appealing. One way in which I do this is extremely easy you can just add the sticker to coloured or patterned paper. Another way would be to colour in using paint, crayons, gel pens, pencils or felt tips. I find that these stickers allow me to create cards which I can be proud of; I am not the most artistic of people so these help me create beautiful pictures without the stress of trying to draw them myself. The stickers make card making more accessible to all levels of crafters.
These can be purchased in a variety of retailers, such as hobby craft, rucraft, boyes, ebay and many of your local craft stores.

I would definitely suggest that any crafter should have a good range of these in their craft box, they create professional looking cards in half the time.