Favorite Alphas

I have long struggled with alphas, but after 10+ years of scrapbooking, I think I finally have my favorites:

Little Alphas:

I love Studio Calico’s Tiny Alphabets. First, they come with 190 letters! They do away with both numbers and punctuation. I rarely use numbers or puncutation stickers and end up with sheets of random consonants along with numbers and punctuation leftover with most sheets of alphas. I like thaty each sheet has several font styles while maintaining the same color scheme. I can easily mix fonts without the look of random alphas. I also like that they are small, yet they are large enough that I can use my own fingers (rather than tweezers) to place them on a page. Because the letters are on their own rectangle shape, I don’t have to attempt to poke out the negative space and I can line them up evenly.

Larger Alphas:

My favorite larger alpha is Jillibean Soup’s Alphabeans. These sticker sheets come with upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and limited punctuation. Each letter is about 1-inch tall. Perfect. I like larger fonts, but don’t usually want them to be too big and overwhelm the page. They peel off and stick well. Yes, you do have to poke out the negative space, but the size of the sticker makes this a breeze.

Fun Alphas:

I have mixed feelings about my favorite fun alphas, which are American Crafts’ Thickers. I like their fun designs and their size. I dislike their poor quality control and price point. I’ve bought sheets of Thickers where the alphabets are now peeling off the sheet they came on. My layouts with them may look cute now, but are these stickers going to hold up? Doubtful. They are also pricier and you get fewer letters per sheet. Thickers are like really cute, but impractical shoes. They’ll leave you with blisters and aching feet. They are too expensive. But, they are so gosh darn cute that you keep buying them anyway.

What are your favorite alphas? Why?

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(While I have linked to Amazon, I purchased all of the stickers at my local scrapbook store a couple of months ago. They ran a sweet sale where everything was 50% off so they would have less to count at year-end inventory. I don’t usually buy 24 packages of alphas in one shopping trip.)