Don’t you just lovvve stickers?! From physical custom made to everyday stickers and even the digital ones…every sticker has its own story. They come in different shapes, sizes and colours and can be used on a variety of things from lunchboxes, scrapbooking paper to planners and notebooks.

Sticker Day

In the 1980s, European merchants were some of the first to stick labels to their products to promote their goods to bypassers. They used gum paste to get the labels to adhere and stick, hence ‘stickers’. A sticker-specific paste had been developed in the 1900s and was mostly used on stamps which dried and would re-apply when moistened.

Sticker Day is annually celebrated on 13 January, in honour of R. Stanton Avery who was born on this day in 1907. He is the rags-to-riches entrepreneur who created the first commercially feasible self-sticking, peel-off labels.

Stickers Now

Now stickers are everywhere from bumper stickers, allergy-alert stickers, Wifi QR-code stickers, to office kitchen rule stickers, business card stickers, and laptop stickers. At PNA, you’ll find:

• schoolbook labels,
• sign labels,
• coloured face mix stickers (perfect for teachers to add to scholars’ workpieces or for moms when packing lunchboxes),
• gold and silver star stickers,
• mailing labels,
• multi-purpose labels,
• quoted stickers in Afrikaans and English (again perfect for teachers),
• lever arch labels,
• fluorescent star stickers,
• rectangular colour-coded label stickers,
• scrapbooking stickers,
• vinyl stickers,
• educational sticker books, and more!

Stickers can be placed on almost anything! We’ve put a list together of some unusual places to put stickers, and we’ve included how to use stickers when creating a hair accessory and magnets.

• Bookshelves
• Picture frames
• Clipboards
• Gift bags
• Wedding place cards
• Casts
• Travel mugs
• Water bottles
• Bicycles
• Helmets

Sticker Hair Accessory

Personalising something is like adding something of yourself to it. It makes it uniquely yours, and help you stand out from the crowd. Follow the link to the tutorial showing how to make a quick and easy hair barrette using a classic tortoiseshell clip, rhinestone and pearl stickers and scissors.

Sticker Magnets

Turn your favourite stickers into magnets that you’ll use again and again. You can choose your own sticker variations and create sticker magnets for yourself or as gifts. View the video of how easy it is here.

Visit your nearest PNA store to purchase your set of stickers, and show us how you use it by tagging us on social.