How to Make Planner Stickers with Cricut Maker FREE Guide

In this easy guide, I’m going to show you how to make planner stickers with Cricut Maker!

I’ve been making planner stickers for some time now and love how much fun it is.

Taking some time to design my own Cricut stickers is a great hobby, plus I save so much money because I can now make my own Cricut print and cut stickers at home.

Can you make stickers with Cricut? 100% yes! There are so many things to make and sell with Cricut, including custom planner stickers for journals.

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Guide to Make Planner Stickers with Cricut

Planning, and using a paper planner, is an important part of our daily lives – mine certainly! Whether it’s for work, school, or personal tasks, having a planner can help keep us organized and on track. And what better way to customize your planner than with handmade stickers made with the Cricut Maker?

In this blog post, you’ll discover who can make planner stickers with Cricut, what tools you’ll need, and how to get started. How exciting!

Who Can Make Planner Stickers with Cricut?

If you love to plan and want to add a personal touch to your planner, then YOU can make planner stickers with Cricut. You don’t need to be an expert crafter or have any prior experience with the Cricut Maker to get started either.

With a little bit of practice and patience, anyone can make beautiful and functional planner stickers.

Tools to Make Planner Stickers with Cricut

To get started with making planner stickers with Cricut, you’ll need the following tools:

Cricut Machine

My preference is the Cricut Maker but a Cricut Explore Air is also a great option. The Cricut Maker is the machine that will do the cutting for you. It’s a powerful cutting machine that can cut a variety of materials, including vinyl, paper, and cardstock.

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Note: the Cricut Joy does not have the print then cut function needed, or can hold the right sized sticker paper.

Cricut Design Space

This is the software that you’ll use to create your designs. It’s an awesome, user-friendly design software that comes with a lot of pre-made templates and images that you can use too!

Sticker Paper

There are a variety of colors and types of paper to choose from, including matte and glossy. I share my faves in my sticker-making resources kit here.

Printer

This is important – but it doesn’t need to be fancy! A color printer, either an injet or laser is fine. I share my fave in the sticker-making resources kit above.

Cutting Mat

This is a sticky mat that holds your sticker paper in place while the Cricut Maker cuts your design. The mats that come with Cricut are great.

5 Benefits of Making Cricut Stickers

There are so many reasons why making stickers for Cricut is fun and fulfilling! Here are the top five:

1. You can easily customize them

The Cricut Maker offers so many ways to create customizable stickers in Cricut Design Space (the accompanying design software, more on that soon).

You can design stickers from scratch that reflect your personal interests and needs. Everything from planner stickers to increase productivity, diary stickers, decorate planner pages and inspire you throughout the week.

2. They will be high quality

You can make your Cricut Maker stickers with high-quality sticker paper to make stickers you’re super proud of.

Whether you’re using stickers for yourself or to share or sell, it’s important that they look professional.

3. You’ll save time making them

You’ll be so surprised at how fast the Cricut Maker can cut out stickers, quickly and accurately, saving you a lot of time and energy compared to cutting them by hand.

If you have a busy schedule or limited crafting time, this is a wonderful benefit.

4. You’ll make a huge variety of stickers

You’ll never be short of planner sticker ideas as the Cricut Maker offers a wide variety of sticker designs, fonts, and graphics to choose from in Cricut Design Space. Or you can add your own!

Maybe you’ll create personalized stickers for planners, events, birthdays, holidays, or more.

5. You’ll start a fun creative outlet that fills you with joy!

I know first hand that using a Cricut Maker to make stickers is a super fun and rewarding creative outlet and hobby. You’ll love it to!

Get ready to have fun and get creative by creating beautiful stickers.

Making Stickers with Cricut Guide

In this guide on how to make stickers with Cricut Maker (or Explore Air), I will demonstrate on my Cricut sticker maker how to print and cut on Cricut. Stickers for bullet journal fans, paper planner lovers and even scrapbookers.

You can either watch my short video on how to make stickers on Cricut or you can read the steps below first.

What is Cricut Design Space?

If you haven’t used the Cricut software before, let me break it down for you. If you already know about Cricut Design Space, skip to the next section.

Cricut Design Space is a versatile design software program created by Cricut and can be used with the Cricut Maker and Explore Air as well as other Cricut machines.

In the software, you can create designs from scratch and customize sticker designs to then print and cut using a Cricut machine.

Although you can make many different crafts, I personally use Cricut Design Space for making stickers – every day!

To get started with using Cricut Design Space, you’ll need to create an account on the Cricut website here and download the software. Next, you can start exploring the different design options available or follow my instructions below.

I also have a popular Cricut Stickers eBook here.

Cricut Design Space for Stickers

You can design a wealth of stickers such as planner stickers and more using pre-made shapes, images and fonts. Or you can upload your own designs including your own artwork or digital art from others.

Once you’ve finished creating your sticker designs, you can preview them to check you’re happy with how the stickers look before you print then cut them. The Cricut print then cut stickers Cricut feature is awesome.

Spend as long as you need customizing your stickers until you’re happy with how they look!

When you’ve finished your design, you can Save it to a folder to return to it later, or even share it with others.

How to Start Making Planner Stickers with Cricut

The first step in making planner stickers with Cricut is to choose your design. You can use pre-made templates in Design Space, or you can create your own design from scratch. Design Space comes with a lot of pre-made templates and images that you can use for free, or you can purchase designs from the Cricut store.

Once you’ve chosen your design, it’s time to customize it. You can change the colors, size, and shape of the design to make it unique to you.

After you’ve customized your design, it’s time to print it and then cut it out. Place your sticker paper onto the cutting mat and load it into the Cricut Maker. Follow the prompts in Design Space to cut your design.

Here’s a more detailed, step-by-step guide to making Cricut stickers:

Cricut Planner Stickers Guide

Let’s get stared with how to make Cricut stickers! Here are the simple steps to follow and if you would like a more detailed breakdown, check out my DIY Sticker Guide short course here if you’re ready to create stickers with Cricut:

1. Open Cricut Design Space

Go to Cricut Design Space.
Log into your account.
Click “Design” top right to access Cricut Design Space. If on a PC, download Design Space for Desktop.
Sign in with your Cricut ID (or register if not already signed up).
If this is the first time you log in, you’ll need to set your “machine mode” by choosing your machine from the dropdown menu.

2. Start a New Project

Choose “New Project” to start designing your Cricut machine stickers.

This blank design space screen will appear:

Save your project by clicking Save at the top right. Give your project a name.

3. Create Sticker Shapes + Fonts

Click the Shapes button on the left-hand side menu and you can choose from any popular shapes to get started.

Planner stickers are made up of a combination of simple shapes and fonts. You can have so much fun experimenting with adding and combining shapes and adding colors to make them pop.

I would suggest starting simple with some simple full box stickers. Create the shape, resize the sticker to fit your planner and add a fun color or pattern as the sticker background!

4. Upload Patterns and Images

To upload your own images to use in your sticker designs, click Upload, Upload Image, locate the image and then click Save.

To upload your own patterns, click Upload, Upload Pattern, locate the pattern and then click Save.

To add your pattern to a shape, select the shape, then click then click Fill and change the Print Type to Pattern.

Your pattern will appear in the dropdown list.

Take as long as you need to choose shapes and fonts to design your perfect stickers.

If you would like a more detailed breakdown of my personal sticker desk process, check out my DIY Sticker Guide short course here.

5. Arrange your stickers into a “Sticker Sheet”

When you’ve finished designing your stickers, arrange them into a neat sheet that maximizes the space but doesn’t crowd the stickers too closely together.

It’s important to give your Cricut the room to cut around each sticker neatly.

6. Choose the Best Sticker Paper for Cricut

In terms of the paper to use, you can either use Cricut printable sticker paper, or you if you have another preference, you can test and see what works best for your Cricut planner stickers.

7. How to Print Stickers on Cricut Design Space

When you’re happy with your sticker sheet, click Make It at the top right.
After a few seconds, your sticker sheet will appear on the screen. A black border will appear around your stickers – this is the registration mark border. This is what the Cricut uses to determine where to cut.
Click Continue.
Click Send to Printer. You may need to connect your printer if this is your first time printing stickers with Cricut Design Space.
If you leave the Bleed option selected, a small extra offset will be added around your stickers to ensure that when they’re cut, there are no white lines if it cuts slightly off.
Print!

8. Cutting your Stickers

Place your printed sheet (when totally dry) onto your Cricut cutting mat. Align it to the top, left-hand corner. Ensure it’s flat on the mat with no bumps.
Load the mat into your Cricut machine.
Go back to the Make screen in Cricut Design Space.
Check that your Cricut is connected to your computer – you can follow these instructions to connect via Bluetooth.
Choose the Material type – select Paper.
Leave the Pressure as Default to kiss cut your stickers.
Press the Go button on your Cricut machine.
After cutting, you can click the flashing arrow button on your Cricut machine to unload it.

I hope this inspires you to start making planner stickers with Cricut! It’s such a fun and creative way to personalize your planner and stay organized.

With the right tools and a little bit of practice, anyone can create beautiful and functional planner stickers. So why not give it a try? You might just discover a new hobby that you love.

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Introducing the Cricut Stickers eBook

A packed, step-by-step printable guide to make planner stickers from scratch the fast way!

By the end of this Cricut eBook, you’ll be able to:

Make Multiple Planner Stickers like headers, checklists, boxes, flags, teardrops, scrips and more!
Install + Get Set Up in Cricut Design Space
Create + Edit Shapes
Use Color + Patterns
Make Custom-fit Stickers that are made-to-measure
Use Text + Offsets
Use the same skills to make other stickers!
Print + Cut Like a Pro
Get cheat sheet graphics, steps and shortcuts

Make Cricut Planner Sticker eBook by Mim Jenkinson

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Discover how to make sticker labels with Cricut, in the DIY Sticker Guide, you will learn:

The tools you will need (and the tools I use!)
How to get set up in Silhouette Studio or Cricut Design Space
How to design planner stickers and other stickers
Choosing colors and where to find patterns and clipart
Where to find the best sticker paper
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Summary of How to Make Planner Stickers with Cricut Maker

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