For Christmas I got a very nice printer and a Cricut cutting machine. I quickly became obsessed with making stickers. I was taken back to the days of my youth in the 80’s when sticker collecting was HUGE. Like all kids I loved cartoons back then but I specifically liked the art. I used to take the comic section from the Sunday newspaper and trace all my favorite characters. When stickers became a thing I was powerless to resist. There were dedicated sticker shops all over and inside they were essentially candy stores but for art! I filled my official Hallmark sticker album with Garfield, Snoopy, Care Bears and then spent hours trying to draw them. I specifically remember learning to draw the bald eagle mascot of the 1984 Olympics whose look I loved and was on all kinds of merch back then including stickers. It’s been fun drawing sttuff reminiscent of those old designs. More stickers are dropping today if you’d like to get nostalgic with me.
First is the April sticker pack for Club PA members. Kara and I have been making one of these packs every month since January and plan to continue all year. These are designed, printed, cut and packed right here in the Krahulik house and include a sticker sheet and a large single sticker as well as some bonus little free stickers and a signed thank you card. They are limited to 200 packs each month and are available to Club PA members (of any level) for around $10. You just need to be logged into the PA site with your Club credentials to see the Sticker packs in Gabe’s Sticker Shoppe. Today the April pack drops and includes:
Lil’ Gabe and Tycho Sayings Sticker Sheet
Spring CTS
In addition to my bespoke offerings, we have an assortment of professionally printed stickers available for anyone to grab. These are all my designs as well but printed in much larger quantities and with different finishes that I can’t do here at home. They sold out pretty quick when the store first launched but there is a big restock today! So if you missed out on any of these designs the first time around, you can get them today! You can also pick up the official Penny Arcade sticker album which makes collecting and trading easy. The specially designed pages let you move your stickers around a few times without losing any stickiness.
We are in the printing and cutting stage of the May sticker pack here at home. This pack will launch around this time next month and includes:
Twisp and Catsby, Tea With The Moon Sticker Sheet.
Vaporwave Wheel Saint
There are also some really cool new designs coming from the professional printer including this Acquisitions Inc sheet I designed but can’t print en masse here at home because I would run out of ink immediately.
I put the entire sheet in my album but each character on here is an individual sticker you can peel out of the background!
and this OG 1998 sticker
If you’d like to keep up on my latest designs and see a bit of the process, I post that kind of stuff over on my Instagram these days.
So take a trip with me back to 1984 via Gabe’s Sticker shoppe and get your collection started today!
-Gabe out
