Today I’m going to be showing you a simple way to rescue your old stickers that may have
lost their stick so you can better preserve them or even reuse them. Turning them from
this to this. Tres chic.
Welcome back to Stickin’ It with Anthony, I’m your host Anthony Stickerman and I’m
so glad you’ve joined me because today I’m going be showing you something that anyone
who collects stickers will find quite useful and also super fun. So what are we waiting
for? Let’s get Stickin’.
What I have here is the Xyron sticker maker and it’s used for, that’s right making
stickers. But this simple and affordable device can also be used for rescuing old stickers
weather they’ve come unstuck or you’re just choosing to display them in a different
way.
The sticker making I have here is the Xyron 150 model, it’s the smallest and cheapest
and it costs about $15 Canadian. I’ll put the amazing link in the description box below.
There are larger sizes which you might choose depending on the size and volume of the stickers
that you’re choosing to rescue. This one can make stickers up to 1 and a half inches
wide. How it works is quite ingenious really, let’s rescue this Trend scratch and sniff
sticker step by step together.
The first step is getting the sticker off of whatever surface it’s currently stuck
to. Over time the adhesive of a sticker can oxidize causing it to loose it’s stick
or it can become extra stuck on. Since a lot of these stickers have been pulled out of my
first sticker books and put into this photo album, a lot of them have little to no stick
left, and some of them were actually quite damaged in the transfer. Most of them are
only held in by the film and the mildly sticky page of the photo album.
If you do find you’re having difficulty getting a sticker off of a surface you can
try using a hair dryer. This works by heating up the adhesive making
it less sticky. Just be really careful when you’r doing
this because the heat can actually melt the stickers and whatever surface that they’re
stuck to. Remember to use low heat and keep the blow dryer moving around so don’t hold
it in one place for too long. Some of my stickers took the paper right
off of the page they were stuck to and in this case I make sure to trim or remove any
loose bits of paper that will be visible from the front, or hinder the effectiveness of
the new adhesive.
I found that with stickers that have a little bit of stick left instead of putting them
into the tray I actually turned the machine upside down a little bit like so so that the
stickers don’t get stuck to the tray itself. One thing to be aware of when you’re doing
this is to make sure not to put the sticker itself in upside down otherwise you’ll end
up with the adhesive on the wrong side and I don’t think you’ll be able to save it
after that.
With your sticker loaded in the machine pull the paper strip straight down until the sticker
clears the cutter. Tear the sheet from the machine, give it a good rub making sure to
press around the edges of the sticker, carefully peel the film off the backing and trim it
down to size. I’ve fallen in love with how uniform and clean my vintage stickers look
on display in these coin collecting pages. I got these ones at a coin collecting store
but you can also find them online. But you can always just stick your stickers like I’m
doing here. Once you run your sticker through the machine it’s good to stick on the surface
of your choice. Hot stuff!
Of course I was concerned that it wouldn’t work with puffy or fuzzy stickers but after
running this vintage Donkey Kong Super Mario sticker through the Xyron I was pleasantly
surprised to see it works just as well and the sticker looks as good as new. This sticker
had come off it’s backing completely as old puffy stickers often do. I had the idea
of putting the backing in the machine upside down. Pull, tear, rub, peel. Laying the back
of the sticker on a flat surface, sticky side up of course, simply place the top of the
sticker as you can see me do here, very carefully line it up, just like so and press firmly.
Now the whole sticker is really to go back into the Xyron. Pull, tear, rub, peel and
voila! It sticks again!
The Xyron sticker maker comes with 20 ft of permanent adhesive tape and the 20 ft. refills
cost $9 Canadian. There’s also a reposition able adhesive option. If you’re doing one
sticker at a time you’re obviously going to burn through more paper than if you’re
doing batches of stickers. I’m not sponsored by Xyron I just really love and believe in
this product and I was so excited to share it with you. There are a lot more stickers
I hope to rescue from my sticker books and of course I really look forward to making
some stickers as well. I post new videos every Thursday to make sure you’re subscribed
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Stickerman and for the love of stickers have a great day. Buh-bye…
The camera goes on and then it’s like when do you breathe ? When is it time to breathe
? Scratch and sniff stiff-ker. Stiff-ker. Repositionable ad-bleh…Tips or tricks, Twipps
or Twicks. 20 ft. of perrrrmaaannent. Seriously damaged stickers as well. Seriously dam-aged
stick-ers as… well…