Trick My Mix: Stick to the Stuff You Know!

As many of you know, Mixbook not so recently launched a new feature that allows you to put stickers on your books. This is an awesome tool that will help enhance and customize your Mixbook. It also brings me back to the days where I used to collect stickers and keep them in a big sticker book. I’m sure many of you know how fun stickers can be. However, Mixbook stickers are digital stickers that you can manipulate in size, “unstick” (delete), and use to enhance your book. Now that’s technology! There are plenty of ways to use them to your creative advantage such as layering, magnifying, and creating patterns.

1. Layering

Layering allows you to take several individual stickers and create something new and completely different than with one sticker alone. By simply using the “Bring Forward” and “Bring Backward” buttons (see photos below), you can stack stickers on top of each other to create different looks and pictures. The page will then seem more 3 dimensional.

Bring Forward:

Little details like this bee in front of the blue box sticker will help the page pop out!

Here is an example of what you can do with layering:

And this was just for fun…

2. Magnifying

Magnifying is stretching a sticker and using it to enhance your background and page. This is a super fun way to play with the stickers available. Try stretching them out and creating new ways to use them!

Now what can we do with these stickers?

Stretch them like taffy!

Combining Layering and Magnifying, this would be one neat page!

Here’s another page I made by stretching a swirly sticker, and increasing the thickness of the border around the photos. I also added drop shadows!

3. Creating Patterns

Finally, creating patterns with stickers is a technique that is very fun and can be quite tedious. If you have patience and time to try, venture into this realm! All you have to do is take a sticker (or more) , modify them to whatever size you want, then repeat them in a pattern. To copy and paste the sticker you want to make a pattern out of, all you have to do is select a sticker, right click, and select “Copy Item” and “Paste Item“.

Patterning stickers is a great way to make borders!

Here’s another one that uses two stickers!

I hope this inspires you to make more Mixbooks and use more stickers! Remember, if you have any questions (such as a certain tutorial made) or comments regarding the tutorial (or anything about Mixbook), feel free to post a reply.  Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Keep sticking those stickers,

Jasmine