So you decided to make a RedBubble shop during a pandemic when everyone else also decided they were going to make a RedBubble shop...
That's when I started mine too, and while I definitely still consider my shop to be new, and small, and a cute little baby shop, I have learned a few things along the way.
One of those things, is how to do sticker packs on RedBubble. I think one of the most important things to remember with online shops and print on demand is that everything you make is an asset. If you do your designs correctly, you can take them apart and repackage them together for a few different items on different shops. What do I mean by that? Well, this eye design did not start on my RB shop. It actually started on my custom apparel shop, check out this cool t-shirt to see what I mean.
My goal is to make sure that each design, or at least a component of most designs (an asset) has multiple lives. And one super easy way to do that is to make sticker packs. For this design, I am using Affinity Designer. However, the basics apply just as easily to a program like Vectornator, which is a free app that has long been my go-to for designs.
I like to start out all of my sticker packs on a 3000x3000 pixel canvas in my program of choice. This size came from a RedBubble help guide I believe about good product sizes, and it has just stuck with me for sticker packs especially. Once I have it set up, I switch my document settings over to inches. I know I could just start out with a 10" square...but I never do. This is my method!
Put your first asset in and determine how you want your pack to be set up. Do you want one larger sticker and a few smaller assets around it? Do you want fairly equal sized stickers? How many do you want in your pack? You can make a quick vision board with rectangles, leaving an inch between to make sure you don't end up with something too close together.
One inch gaps are not a hard and fast rule, but this is something that has worked well for me and I stick with religiously. I know as long as I have left this between each design I am not going to run in to issues with the upload.
So for this design, I copied the eye and flipped it for the second one. I added in some quirky lines to mimic some of the styling of the patchwork eye. And then I got ridiculously excited because this was the perfect time to use a font that I don't often get to use.
When I am specifically uploading a sticker pack, I turn off every other product item nine times out of ten. The only time my sticker packs appear under a main design is when I am doing a seamless pattern. For those, I will use the seamless pattern on everything else, and then replace the image with a sticker pack component. Scroll through this Daisy Dot seamless pattern to see what I mean on this.
Other than that, the design and tagging process is normal. Always tag your design appropriately and try to imagine what words and phrases people might use when they are looking for your design.
And, if you like this design, check it out in the shop here.
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