How to Make a Doodle Sticker

 What do you need?

*Your favorite graphics program.  (I will be using PSP, but if you know your program enough, you should be able to duplicate this tutorial in your own program.)

*A Doodle.  (I have provided the one I am using in this tutorial; you can download it HERE and follow along exactly if you like.)

 Let’s Get Started….. 

1. Open your doodle.  Duplicate, close the original.
    
2. Choose your selections tool () set it so it has a tolerance of 0 and a feather of 1, and anti-alias checked.
    
3. Select inside ALL the petals in the image I provided. (Adjust this to an area you want all ONE color if your using your own image.)  You can select multiple parts by holding the shift key.
    
4. Once you have the inside of the petals selected, go to layer/new raster layer.  Move this layer below the layer with the doodle on it.
    
5. Now go to Selections/Modify/Expand, and expand the selection by 2. This will make sure that your ‘coloring’ goes past the black outline of the doodle.
    
6. Choose your flood fill tool () and fill the selection we just made.  Choose Selections/Select None.  If you still have ‘small’ areas that didn’t seem to be picked up in the selection process above, use your paint brush and ‘manually’ fill in the voids, so that the color goes completely under the black outline of the doodle.  Make sure you don’t ‘spill’ into the other areas of the doodle though.
    
7. Now go to adjust/add-remove noise/add noise, and use these settings, or what ever you like. These are the settings I used.
   
    
8. Then to add some texture to your flower, go to effects/texture effects/fur, and use these settings, or what ever you like.
   
    
9. Now add your favorite ‘paper’ texture.  For this one I will use Old Paper, which should be standard with PSP, but I don’t know what is available to other programs.  So choose something you like.  I used these settings.
   
    
10.  That takes care of the petals, now repeat the above steps for each of the areas you have that would be a different color.  (In the case of this doodle, that would only leave the ‘center’ part.)
     
11.  Next I am going to make a ‘paper back’ to the sticker, so there is a bit of a border around the image.  Go back to you doodle layer, or the layer that your outline is on.  Using your wand select the area outside of the doodle.  Then go to selections/invert so you only have the doodle selected.
     
12.  Go to Selections/Modify/Expand, and expand the selection by 16.  Your marching ants should have moved away from the doodle, carrying into the ‘blank’ part of the canvas.  If it has moved deeper INTO the doodle, you may have forgotten to invert the selection. 
     
13. Now add another new layer. (Layers/New Raster Layer).  Move this layer to the very bottom.  This will be the ‘base’ of your sticker. 
     
14.  Flood fill this layer with white, (or if you want your sticker base to be another color, use that).  Now repeat the above steps we used to texturize the main parts of the doodle.  (Noise, Fur, Texturize)
     
15.  Now all I do is add a slight inner bevel, and you’re done.  These are the settings I used.
    
16.  You can also add a slight shadow to your doodle layer if you wish, but I did not in this example.

Here it is, my ‘sticker’…..

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and maybe learned a little something you didn’t know how to do before!