WALL STICKERS ROAD TESTED

In my first genuine product road testing exercise for this blog, I have applied the wall stickers that I wrote about in my last post, on a rough finish wall no less.

Applying one of the stickers that make up the final "I'm like a bird" picture to the wall

I wanted to know, were these fancy looking wall stickers as easy to use as they looked? And, could you really, as the manufacturers claim, apply them to a less than perfectly smooth wall. And the answer is, well yes. More or less.
There were small challenges.  Firstly, there was some unexpected creative decision making required.  As the pictures come in several elements rather than as one complete image you have to construct the picture with each smaller sticker, deciding where to place each sticker in relation to the other, rather than just putting up one sticker with the complete image.  In addition, the re-stickable “I’m like a Bird” stickers from whatisblik needed to be applied in a particular order.  You have to figure the sequence our yourself as it isn’t spelled out in the instructions.  It’s not super complicated but I did have a little stress attack about how to place the many stickers on the wall to arrive at the right final result.  Luckily, Señor i-know-everything-just-let-me-show-you-and-please-stand-aside (aka my husband) was there to lend some support.
It would have been handy if a larger image of the final picture, especially in the case of “I’m like a Bird”, that really needed to be copied fairly faithfully, was provided so we could easily see how to place each of the stickers.
The Wee Gallery Jungle design was a bit easier as it didn’t need to be replicated as precisely but it was still a bit like deciding

The Safari wall stickers from Wee Gallery. The monkey is swinging from vine to vine, not floating in the air. obviously. okayyy?

where to hang 30 different little pictures on one wall.  If you’ve ever experienced a little bit of tension with anyone over whether a picture should be hung higher, lower, left, right – imagine that times 30. So I was like, “how about here for the monkey, is it too close to the lion? Does he look like he’s swinging from the vine or just floating in the air? Is the butterfly to close? Would monkies eat butterflies? Can you have green and brown leaves on the same vine or should they all be together? And my husband was like “It’s a jungle, it can go wherever”, and after hearing this several times in response to VERY important questions the outcome of which were going to effect the future of our new nursery wall, I found myself screaming ” It’s not a JUNGLE. It’s a PICTURE OF A JUNGLE. So we have to PLAN it.  And if we put too much stuff here it will be all SCRUNCHED here up and STOOPID and spaced out THERE. OK?! It’s NOT A JUNGLE. IT’S NOT A JUNNNNGGGLLLLLEEEE”.  Ahem.
So any ACTUAL problems?   Just a bit of fiddliness for the re-stickable stickers when you peel the stickers off the backing.  In this step the stickers should stay behind on the clear piece so that you can apply them to the wall.  A lot of the stickers kept coming off with the backing which was kind of annoying and a bit time consuming.

The fiddly part - removing the backing from WhatisBlik "I'm like a bird" re-stickable wall stickers

Nursery Wall - The only colour in the room! I'm working on it...

But overall it all went pretty smoothly with no major problems.  The only advice I would give is, unless you’re supremely confident about your sense of artistic and spacial perspective, have someone else around to give you a hand.  Just like hanging a picture, it’s pretty handy to have someone further back giving you some guidance while you’re close to the wall and unable to get a full perspective.  If you don’t have your very own Captain Annoying, invite a friend around and do the project while you enjoy a few wines.