How to design teacher reward stickers

What you can make

Sheets of small reward stickers for the classroom: well done, star pupil, reading champion, or your own words. You design one sticker at a time, and each design fills a column of the sheet. Choose the sticker size and shape, and how many sheets you need.

Before you start

• All you need is a web browser, on a computer or a phone. There is nothing to install.
• You do not need an account to design or to order. You only need one to save a design and come back to it later.
• Everything you add can be moved, changed or deleted until you approve your proof. Nothing is printed before that.

Starting your design

On the product page, press Start designing. The designer opens straight away.

Finding your way around

On a computer, your sticker is in the middle. The list of pages runs down the side: Design, Text and the rest, ending with Your sheet. The price is at the bottom of the side panel and updates as you go. Along the top are Save, Help (this guide, in a new tab), Menu, and the undo and redo arrows.

On a phone, your sticker fills the screen.

• The round + button adds things: Text, Graphics, Shape, Background and Templates.
• The price at the top opens Your sheet.
• The bar at the bottom has Menu, Undo, Redo, Save and Finalise. Menu → Help: how to use this designer opens this guide.
• When something is selected, a button above the canvas, such as Edit text, opens its settings.

Your design: the list of everything on it

Design shows Your design: every item on your sticker, one per line. When it is empty, big buttons offer the ways to start.

• Click a line, or the item itself, to select it.
• The eye hides an item or shows it again. The arrows move it in front of, or behind, the others. The bin deletes it.
• Below the list, Add more gives you the same buttons again.

Adding text

1. Open Text and type in the box that says Type your text.
2. Choose Straight text or Curved text, a font, bold or italic, and the alignment.
3. The sliders set the Size, the Curve (a dome, a cup, or flat), the Spacing between letters and the Line spacing, and Outline thickness for a line around the letters.
4. Pick the Text colour and the Line colour.
5. Press Add your text.

To change text later, click it on your sticker. Its settings open again and every change shows straight away.

Graphics

Graphics is our library of ready-drawn pictures. Search it, or pick a category, and click one to add it. It prints in full colour.

Click a graphic on your sticker to change it: Swap it for another, set its size and angle, flip it, or Duplicate it.

Shapes

Shapes draws a Rectangle, an Ellipse or a Polygon (choose how many Sides), with rounded Corners if you like.

Give it a Fill colour or a texture, make it see-through with Transparency (even all over, or fading in a line or a circle), and add an outline with Outline colour and Thickness. Then press Add shape.

Background

Background is one of the buttons on Design (and in the + menu on a phone). Choose a flat colour to go behind everything on your sticker.

Your sheet: size, shape, columns and sheets

Your sheet is this product’s own page (on a phone, tap the price at the top, or the chip under your sticker).

• Sticker size: 18mm (140 a sheet, 10 designs), 27mm (63 a sheet, 7 designs) or 38mm (35 a sheet, 5 designs).
• Sticker shape: Circle or Square. One shape for the whole sheet.
• Sheets: how many sheets you want.

Filling the columns:

1. Each new sticker starts from a suggestion: a picture and the words “Click to change”. Change it into your design, then press Save this design to a column. A suggestion you have not changed is never printed.
2. Design the next one and save it to the next column, until you have as many different stickers as you want.
3. To repeat a design, use the ⧉ button on its picture: it copies the design into the next free column. The × removes it.

You do not have to fill every column yourself. If you design fewer than the sheet holds, your designs repeat in order, so no column is ever left blank.

Moving, resizing and layering

• Move: drag the item.
• Resize: drag a corner handle. Turn: drag the round handle.
• Centre: on a computer, the bar under your sticker has Centre ↕, Centre ↔ and Centre on sticker for the selected item.
• In front or behind: use the arrows on Design.
• Undo and redo: the curved arrows at the top (on a computer, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z work too).
• Fine work: zoom in with the + and − buttons, and use Pan to move around.

The edge warning

Each sticker is cut along its outline. Keep words and pictures a little inside the edge.

On round stickers, wide words near the top or bottom of the circle are cut off even when they fit the square around it. Keep words in the middle band of the circle, and the designer will warn you if anything strays.

Text is never smaller than 1.5 mm, so it stays readable on small stickers.

The designer checks for you. When something is too close, the side panel warns you, for example: 1 item may be trimmed — check Your design. On Design the item is marked, with a Fix it button that pulls it back into the safe area. With more than one, Fix all does them all. You can also just make the item a little smaller.

Checking it before you order

Preview shows your sticker full-screen, as it will be printed. 3D mock-up shows the finished sticker as an object: drag to spin it, scroll to zoom, and 📷 Save image to keep a picture. Neither changes anything.

Saving and coming back later

Save keeps your design under a name you choose. You need an account for this; if you are not signed in, the designer offers Register or log in, and it only takes a minute.

To open it again later: Menu → Open a saved design.

Approving your proof and ordering

1. Press Review the sheet (Finalise on a phone).
2. The proof shows every design in your sheet side by side, with the total.
3. Read every word. Spelling, layout and pictures are your responsibility once you approve.
4. Tick the box to say you have read and agree, then press Finalize & Add to Cart.

At checkout you tick once more to confirm you have checked the spelling and layout, then pay securely through Payfast.

After you order

• We start making your order once you have approved your proof and paid. How long it takes, and how it reaches you explains production times, Rush production, courier delivery and lockers.
• Collecting from our Wilro Park collection point is free. We email you when your order is ready to collect.
• Want to send us your own finished artwork instead? Choose Email us your artwork later where it is offered, or send us an enquiry.