How to Apply a Vinyl Die Cut Sticker/ Decal
Your stickers are gold – don’t blow it and apply them badly!
Follow our Step by Step Guide to applying your stickers the right way!
1. Place your sticker
Pick a location for your sticker. If you are really keen you can tape it in place so it doesn’t move, with a line of tape over the centre of the sticker, like a hinge.
2. Peel the sticker from the backing paper. Stop 1/3 to 1/2 way.
Peel the backing paper off the sticker carefully. Fold it over itself, and watch for parts that may stick. If they do, just push the app tape back down and retry. Stop halfway.
3. Cut away the backing paper.
Cut away the backing paper you have exposed.
4. Apply the first half of your sticker.
Working from the centre out, using a credit card or a hard rub with your hands, push the sticker into position and rub it hard!
5. Remove the other half of your backing tape.
Remove the other half of the backing paper by folding the unattached part and peeling it off carefully, exposing the sticker surface.
6. Apply the Second Half
Using the same method as before, work the second half of the sticker down and into position. Hold the sticker tightish and work from the centre to the end.
7. Rub your sticker like you love it!
Rub it hard to make sure it will stick properly!
8. Remove the application paper.
Starting at the top corner of your sticker, carefully peel back the application tape. Fold it over on itself, and slowly pull on a 45 degree angle to the sticker.
9. Keep pulling!
Slowly keep pulling the app tape until it is all removed. Watch for parts of your sticker lifting – if it does then re-rub that part of the sticker with the app tape and try again slowly. If it isn’t working, try different angles. DO IT SLOWLY!
10. Bask in your glory!
You have done it! Your customstickers.co.nz Vinyl Die Cut Sticker is now on and hopefully looking mint!
5 tips for Business Stickers as Marketing and Promotion
Stickers are an amazing cost effective way to market your business, event, blog, or to get a point across.
One sticker in one great location can be seen by thousands of people – and the best thing is you aren’t being charged by how many people look at it or people clicking on it! We have put together 5 important points to think of when designing your sticker
1. What are you trying to do with your promotional sticker?
Content wise, you need to work out your priorities – are you trying to promote your brand, make band stickers, drive traffic to a website, or make a sale? Make sure your content is relevant to what you are trying to do.2. Economy vs quality
Are you going to hand these out to everyone you see or are you going to hand these out to selected influential people? If you are going to give them to everyone with a pulse, then presized stickers might be the best option – if you want these to end up on peoples apple macbooks in Ponsonby then a quality custom designed Vinyl Die Cut Sticker/Decal is probably a good choice.3 . Spend Time (or a little money) Making them look good.
People are aware of good design. Here at customstickers.co.nz, we see a lot of great designs, and a lot of average ones as well. Your sticker doesn’t have to look like it should be in a High Fashion Magazine, but it should at the least be aesthetically pleasing and achieve its goals – IE BE EASY TO READ AND RECOGNISE! If you suck at design, hire a designer! It represents your company or what you are trying to portray, so you should probably make a decent effort. Clip Art from MS word probably won’t cut it…There are plenty of custom shapes, options and styles to make your stickers stand out!4. Stick Them Everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE
Our stickers and decals are designed to be stuck. So do it! Take a stack of them out with you when you walk the dog and let loose. If you have a laptop, put on one the lid, so that when you are in Ponsonby writing your novel people will see it. If you have a cellphone, stick one on there. If you are making important calls about shares and the DPX index on Lambton Quay people will see them. Lampposts, Traffic lights mailboxes – wherever you have permission* or don’t think that there will be a problem sticking them (Give the neighbours dog or the police car a miss, although John Keys Limo might be a goer) then put them up. Use your common sense here – you are all smart enough to read 4 paragraphs of this so you should be smart enough to choose where is OK to put up a sticker.5. Everyone has seen a bumper sticker
And there is a reason for that. They work. Bumper stickers have launched brands and turned large brands into corporate monsters, as part of an all round marketing strategy. Stickers are something that people can hold and use, google ads tend to be a bit harder to stick on your mates back when he’s not looking, or on your nana’s car. Clear, concise information, as well as simple design and instruction means a win. And for a great price. No need to spend 10k on that NZ Herald ad when you can spend 1k on 1000 custom bumper stickers and paint the town with them. In short, stickers have and always will be a cost effective means to getting your information around. A while ago I read something along the lines of “a stickers life is measured in years, not days.” It struck a chord with us here – why advertise for the short term when you can invest in the future? Of course, we are a little biased, but who can blame us. Stickers are great.Click Here and start promoting your business/event/band/mum to the world.
How to install die cut stickers
Here is a couple of simple ways to install your die cut stickers – it’s an art to get no bubbles and a little bit of effort is worth for your valuable stickers.Hinge Method
1. Tape your sticker in position, and run some tape over the middle of the sticker.
2. Peel back half of the sticker, and cut away the backing paper.
3. Stick the sticker with a credit card or a squeegee, from the middle out, moving in 45 degree angles with the on a 45 degree slant.
4. Once the first half of the sticker is laid down, remove the tape and peel the other half away from the backing paper. Then, stick it down the same way.
5. Remove the backing paper slowly, on a 45 degree angle across the sticker, and folded back over itself.
Hinge Method 2
1. Position the sticker and tape one end down, with the tape half on the sticker and half on the surface.
2. Peel the backing paper off the sticker carefully and leave the sticker exposed, with the tape holding it on.
3. From the middle out, using 45 degree strokes with a squeegee or card on a 45 degree apply the sticker from the Taped end.
4. Once the sticker is laid down, remove the tape and peel off the backing paper.
What sticker is right for you?
So you have come here looking for stickers in NZ and want to know what is the right one – have no fear, here is your guide to each type of sticker so you can select the best type!
1.Presized Stickers – These stickers are presized to minimise waste and cost. These are amazing as bumper stickers! They are available in a range of sizes, and come in outdoor, indoor (for labels) and clear outdoor options. They are the best bang for your buck, and if you dont need a custom shape then roll with these! They come in lots of 1000, and start at around $250.
2. Digital Print Stickers – These are printed stickers and can be cut to custom shapes.
There are no setup costs involved, and are the best option if you are looking for custom shapes and/or a small amount of stickers. 
3. Vinyl Die Cut Stickers- These are stickers that are cut out of sheets of vinyl and applied with a backing tape. They are like the lettering/logos you see on signs and windows. These are ideal for a professional finish, and are suitable for solid images. These are for the sticker conniseur – they are harder to make and harder to apply, but have an amazing finish. If you snowboard, you will know all about these.
4. Screen or Offset printed stickers – These are the big boys – if you need a large number of custom stickers as a serious promo tool for your company or brand then these are the ones for you. These are top quality, fully customisable stickers, from the vinyl type through to the finishing. These have a one off setup cost and we store your film and artwork for future work. The more colors, the more expensive to set up and print so bear that in mind.5. Other products – we do a lot of sticker and print based products – corflute signs for selling your house, window stickers for stores, canvas banners, car signage and office signage; basically if you need a sticker or sign it comes under this. Fill in the quote form (link below) or Email us at info@customstickers.co.nz to find out – we are happy to help!
