At All About Pins, we love working with passionate artists who turn their creativity into thriving businesses. One of our favorite collaborations has been with Karly from KPB Designs! She is the visionary behind Sticker Girl, a brand that started with a simple idea and has grown into a nationwide success!
Karly’s entrepreneurial journey started in high school when she decided to transform her watercolor paintings into stickers. So many of her friends and classmates love her artwork, and she thought that stickers would make it more accessible for everyone. A $100 dollar investment in 300 sticklers proved to be the spark of an amazing journey! Within a couple of weeks, she’d sold all her stickers throughout the school and was ready to set her sights on something bigger!
Today, Karly’s artwork is featured in coffee shops, bookstores, and boutiques across the country! And it’s not just stickers - she designs custom lapel pins too!
Karly’s style was formed gradually through doodling and practicing her craft. Nature is her main source of inspiration, and growing up on the Oregon coast offered plenty of opportunity for her to drink in the natural beauty all around her.
The lapel pins she designs are shaped like sunflowers, butterflies, bears, and even bigfoot! But she puts her own unique style into each one and pairs them with a special cardstock. Custom cardstock is an excellent option for entrepreneurs like Karly who sell their pins online and through retail stores. It offers creative space to add more to a pin design, expand your brand, and even offer a practical solution for hanging pins on racks for display.
Each piece of cardstock has “KPB Designs” along the top and a small message that reads “Hand-painted with 💖” right below. She also includes her website, just in case someone comes across one of her pins in the wild and wants to see more of what she has to offer!
For production, Karly generally prefers hard enamel as opposed to soft enamel. Hard enamel pins have a smooth, polished surface that elevates the perceived value of the pins. The premium look and feel helps her artwork pop with amazing detail.
For wholesalers like Karly, rest assured that your pins will meet the highest quality standards in the industry, preserve your brand and excite your customers! For cardstock orders similar to Karly’s, we also ensure pins are attached and centered before shipping, and we also deliver them individually wrapped so they are ready for retail.
Karly started out with a few stickers in high school and turned KPB Designs into something so much more! As a professional artist, Karly sends us her watercolor paintings as they are, and our job is to convert them into beautiful lapel pins. However, you don’t have to be a professional artist to create custom lapel pins.
Here at All About Pins, we have a professional design team who are eager to help you bring your vision to life. Whether you have a fully realized design like one of Karly’s or just a couple of simple doodles, we can help! Just send us your ideas, and we’ll help you craft something unique for all to enjoy!
