Cut Settings
For my first trial, I created a page of stickers. I used the Washi tape cut setting to kiss-cut the stickers. This created a page of stickers which could be peeled and applied to the item of your choosing.
While this will work just fine when I go to print custom stickers for my teacher planner next year, I decided it wouldn’t work super well for gifting the stickers to my graduating calculus seniors.
For my second attempt, I sized the stickers to print at 2.25 inches across. This let me fit 11 stickers on a letter-sized sheet of paper.
I have 17 graduating seniors in my AP Calculus class, so I printed two pages of stickers on full-sized sheets of sticker paper which I ordered from Amazon.
I placed these two sticker sheets back-to-back in a laminating pouch. After the sticker sheets were laminated, I trimmed the lamination off of the edges which allowed me to pull my two sticker sheets back apart.
MATH = LOVE RECOMMENDS…
A laminator is a MUST-HAVE for me as a math teacher! I spent my first six years as a teacher at a school with a broken laminator, so I had to find a way to laminate things myself.
I’ve had several laminators over the years. I currently use a Scotch laminator at home and a Swingline laminator at school.
I highly recommend splurging a bit on the actual laminator and buying the cheapest laminating pouches you can find!
I was then able to attach the laminated sticker sheet to my standard grip mat and run it through my Cricut Maker 3. I used the acetate cut setting with “more pressure” to create die-cut stickers which I could easily pass out to my students.
It was a very fun learning experience, and I look forward to making even more stickers in the future!
