Create Your Own Custom Home Decor With A Smart Tissue Paper Print Hack

Making your own decals to decorate your home is a great way to save money and choose your own unique designs. While clever hacks like turning basic old jars into seasonal décor with a napkin DIY that acts as decoupage is one way to transfer prints onto surfaces, you can print your own custom decals with a smart tissue paper print hack. It's both simple and cost-effective, and you only need a few supplies. By securing tissue paper to another sheet of tougher paper and using a printer to get your designs, you've just come up with a homemade sticker system to decorate everything from candles and jars to storage baskets and more!

There are a couple different ways you can try this crafts DIY, but your supplies remain mostly the same. You need a pack of tissue paper in any color (although white or neutrals will help show the prints), either a pack of computer paper or card stock in standard printer size, and glue or tape. This is also a great way to repurpose tissue paper around the house, so keep those pieces from gifts and purchases to try this. To adhere your stickers, you will need an iron, but that comes later. You will also want to have your decal designs ready and added to a sheet on your computer, which you will print onto your tissue paper.

For this DIY, take a piece of printer size card stock (you can always trim this down to fit) and cut a piece of tissue paper to the same size. Using a glue stick or a small amount of craft glue, secure the edges all around the tissue paper to the card stock. Depending on how your printer lays down the ink, add your sheet either tissue up or down so that the decal will print onto it. The card stock helps keep the tissue paper in place, providing a stable surface so the lightweight material doesn't crinkle or rip. Once your designs or stickers have printed, you can use your iron to rub them onto a surface (after you've cut them out and peeled the tissue away from the card stock for easier application).

Instead of glue, you can swap to double-sided tape to keep both pages together. You can also use regular printer paper rather than investing in the thicker card stock; just ensure you lay the page down as flat as it goes so the tissue doesn't get ripped while printing. Your sheets can have as many or as few decals as you want, creating a sticker sheet for a variety of projects. From here, simple apply just the tissue portion of your decal with the printed side down onto your items, and use the iron to seal them to the surfaces. You can use them to upgrade basic Dollar Tree jars into rustic home décor, or DIY your own printed candles like a big box store dupe!