Free printable Christmas stickers – free files, with a difference, to use in many different ways!
The files come as PNGs, PDFs and also, as the cut files that I use with my Silhouette Cameo 3.
The free printable Christmas stickers I have just added to my collection are a little bit unusual.
PLEASE NOTE. THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD MY FREE PRINTABLE CHRISTMAS STICKERS BUNDLE IS AT THE END OF THIS POST. IT IS IN THE CAPTION OF MY LAST IMAGE
In my own crafts, I often use ai to generate images which I then alter to make them more personal.
They usually end up looking nothing like the images ai generated – I use them mainly for ideas.
Well this year, I wanted to create stickers for my younger grandchildren to use in their art and crafts.
And I also wanted to share my free printable Christmas stickers here as well for grandparents and parents to use.
When I created the first Christmas stickers with the help of ai, I was shocked at the initial results.
The images of Christmas angels and fairies came out looking very fair and slim and not at all representative of the people I see around me in 2024.
And that includes members of my own family, as I will explain further on.
So I looked online to find Christmas stickers that are being sold, to see what they look like.
And they were all pretty much like the ‘normal’ sort of Christmas images from 50 years ago.
As a very light skinned, blue eyed, fair haired British born child, I’d never questioned how and why fairies and angels were usually portrayed as white.
In all the story books I had, mythical creatures that were portrayed in the human image were almost always fair skinned.
So I started wondering, who decided that these mythical creatures should be slim, white and often fair haired?
But of course, children don’t really question what they are shown; we accepted it as the ‘norm’ at the time.
Maybe that was ok back then – I don’t know – but we live in a vastly different world now.
And with ai being a recent invention, I would have expected the algorithm to be a bit more in tune with today’s world.
We are now a diverse mix of colours, shapes and sizes but ai doesn’t seem to know that.
This post is primarily about my free printable Christmas stickers.
So I’m not going to get too much deeper into my thoughts on why ai appears to be probably racist and definitely sexist.
Why do I say sexist? Well look at the stickers below, with the angels and fairies on it.
When I asked for Christmas angels and fairies, the above is what it automatically came up with!
So I then told it to give me specific kinds of images that I think better represents how we all look today.
These stickers were designed for my own use, which is why they might not be what some people might expect.
As I said above, I am white British by birth, however, my two sons and all my five grandchildren have diverse cultural backgrounds.
My sons were born in Canada and their paternal family has an unusual, diverse racial/cultural background.
They both married young women who also come from diverse racial/cultural backgrounds, so their children have a very mixed heritage.
Because of this, I am aware of how narrow the depiction/representation of the human form can be, in print.
For example, the choices of designs on greeting cards in your average card shop.
They haven’t really kept up with the cultural diversity seen in society in 2024.
Dolls are another example.
Yes you can get baby dolls of varying skin colours but most still seem to be light skinned representations of real babies.
When I wanted to get a baby doll for my granddaughter in 2020, I had to really search for one that reflected her Anglo Chinese heritage.
At two years old, I’m sure she would have been happy with whatever doll I got for her.
It was me who wanted something other than the typical ‘white’ baby doll.
Why? I wanted her to look at her doll and see her maternal family reflected there.
In creating my free printable Christmas stickers collection, it’s not just the diversity of races I wanted to represent.
Lots of people all over the world celebrate Christmas and we aren’t all skinny and fair haired like the angels ai was coming up with!
We are all different body sizes, types and shapes, and the way we dress varies greatly from culture to culture.
As we long ago decided that these mythical angels and fairies take a human form, I wanted to see ones that represent the modern day diversity of human appearance.
Now I’m sure not everyone will like or agree with my free printable Christmas stickers with the heavier angels!
And I’m sure some people will want to stick with the more traditional representations of light skinned, fair haired fairies.
And that’s fine – we all have our ideas an opinions – these are simply mine.
But for those who think Santa Claus, angels and fairies should come in different shapes, sizes and races, feel free to make use of all these designs.
There are 60 images in all, presented in various ways on multi image sheets or as single png files.
My free printable Christmas stickers are what I wanted for my own craft uses.
They are also what I want to give my grandchildren to cut and stick in their Christmas crafts.
They are perfect for making greeting cards and gift tags.
For the crafters out there who may want them, I am sharing them on here.
Originally I wasn’t going to include the designs I considered to be sexist and racist.
But in the end, I decided I would include those ones because people can make up their own minds about using them or not.
The angels on that ‘sexist’ sheet are fine, as long as they come with ones of other choices of skin colour and shape.
But the fairies with prominent breasts, tiny waists and skimpy clothes? Hmmm, I wasn’t too impressed with those ones.
Ok – when you look at trends in dolls, such as those from the Monster High, series or Bratz from years back, maybe this is what little girls are now used to seeing.
But that doesn’t make it right!
Although I must say, some of those dolls are a lot more diverse than Barbie dolls were, back in time.
I was shocked at how sexist some of these ai results were. Is it just me? Am I reading too much into them?
But why the fair skin? Why the light hair? I can identify with that because the images reflect what I grew up with.
But what about my grandchildren? What about all the racially diverse children I see all around me?
Time and again, ai churned out these idealistically ‘pretty’ images with fair skin, fair hair, slim bodies with unrealistically pert breasts and skimpy clothes.
Why have they even got breasts! Do these innocent little mythical creatures need them?
And what makes ai automatically come up with such sexist (in my opinion) representations of fairies?
Why does ai need to be told to be diverse when we have been living in a diverse society for a very long time now?
As my plan was to share the AI designs as free printable Christmas stickers – I wasn’t that happy with the results.
As I said earlier, the world is now a diverse mix of all colours, shapes and sizes.
I know the whole world does not celebrate Christmas, however those who do, are a diverse mix.
We are not all slim, with cinched in waists and pert breasts!
We don’t all have light hair and skin and huge ‘Bambi” eyes either!
When I look around on the street, I see virtually no one who could identify with first representations ai gave me.
Most of us are pretty ordinary – so why not have a few fairies and angels that look like us ordinary folk?
As the stereotypical ai images kept coming, I suddenly remembered a friend from years ago who had a mixed race daughter.
The little girl, around age five at the time, wanted to go to her class Christmas party as a fairy.
So mum dressed her up in a pretty fairy dress with wand etc and off she went, happy as anything.
She returned home after the party in tears. Another little girl had told her ‘fairies aren’t black’.
This was about 38 years ago. Have things changed? In the eyes of a child, can fairies be any size, shape or colour we want them to be?
Or would a child of today still be saying ‘fairies can’t be black?’
I’m certain that visual conditioning of what a fairy should look like is why that child said what she said at 5 years old.
Storybook fairies all had a certain look back then – I don’t remember ever seeing any that were not delicate little white skinny ones.
I’ve never forgotten that story and I think it shows the danger of subliminal conditioning through images.
And I thought society had moved on from that – but ai says it hasn’t.
Which is why my free printable Christmas stickers are a mish mash of how real people look.
I want my 6 year old granddaughter to know that if fairies and angels exist, they could look like her and the myriad of ethnically diverse children at her school.
And not only that, some children and their families are not slim and svelte like angels and fairies are typically despicted as being.
Again, I want my grandchildren to look at mythical beings that are in human form and see all shapes and sizes.
You may not agree with me – these are just my thoughts based on what I want for my grandchildren.
Whether everyone agrees with the mixing of races and cultures or not, it is how our world is now.
And for the sake of our children growing up in that world, our visual representations of it should reflect what we see in real life.
This collection by no means covers all the diversitieswe see around us. I would need an army of designers to help with that!
If you do like any of my free printable Christmas stickers – feel free to download them and use them in your creative Christmas projects.
What kind of free design files are there in the bundle?
There are PDF files you can print off in A4 size. They are sheets with several images on each one.
Those sheets are also come as transparent PNG files with no background.
And there are .studio3 cut files of those multi image sheets to use with a Silhouette Cameo cutting machine.
These cut files definitely work with Silhouette Cameo 3 machines because that is what I cut mine on.
I have also included every sticker design as individual transparent PNG files – 60 in all.
How can you use my free printable Christmas stickers?
There are several ways depending on your level of expertise.
The most basic way of using my Christmas stickers is to print off the A4 PDF files and cut the shapes out.
People with more advanced skills can open the transparent PNG files and use the individual images in digital projects.
Those with the knowledge of how to do it can resize the individual images and drag them around onto other images.
You can use the set with the big Christmas tree and selection of smaller angels and fairies to put the one of your choice at the top of the tree.
You can also use the individual PNG files to do this digitally by dragging and dropping them onto the tree and resizing to fit before printing.
If you aren’t sure how to use my free printable Christmas stickers – let me know.
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There will be a short YouTube video to go with this post soon and you will be able to leave comments or ask questions there too.
I will add the link here when the video is published.
Now for the link to my free printable Christmas stickers.
You will find it in the caption under this picture.
I know I usually post my YouTube video and associated blog post at the same time, but I wanted to get these free printables up here before Christmas is over!
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Many thanks for reading this far – I wish you a very happy festive season – whatever and however you celebrate.
See you again soon!