The bold Capricorn sticker pack
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A Capricorn sticker pack of 12 bold zodiac designs. Vintage posters, a goat statue, tarot and celestial sea goat art on waterproof die cut vinyl. $18.
- 12 individual die cut designs
- Deep granite, stone and antique gold palette
- Editorial girl group art, vintage CAPRICORN posters, a goat statue, tarot portraits and celestial sea goats
What is inside this Capricorn sticker pack
This Capricorn sticker pack is the version with the ascent in it. Editorial girl group art, vintage CAPRICORN poster lettering, a goat statue piece, tarot portraits and celestial sea goat designs in deep granite, stone brown and antique gold.
The colour story is the opposite of the soft bundle. Deep, saturated, heavy type, ornate linework. These are designed to read from across a room, which is why this is the set that gets bought as a gift more than the other two combined.
The sea goat pieces are the sleeper hit. Almost nobody draws Capricorn as what it actually is, which is a goat with a fish tail, and once you have seen the real symbol the mountain goat version starts looking like a shortcut.
Who this Capricorn sticker pack is for
- The Capricorn who did the unglamorous version of the work for years and watched somebody else get described as talented for the visible part. The poster designs are for that person specifically.
- Laptop lids, hard cases, anything that gets carried around and looked at by other people. High contrast survives being seen at a distance in a way pastels do not.
- Anybody who has looked at Capricorn zodiac stickers before and found every single one of them a mountain in greyscale.
- Gift buyers who want the recipient to react when they open it. If you need a reaction, this Capricorn sticker pack is the one.
If the person you are buying for keeps their whole life in one calm colour, the Soft bundle is the better read and this Capricorn sticker pack will sit unopened in a drawer.
Where the bold Capricorn sticker pack works best
This Capricorn sticker pack was designed to be seen at a distance, so the surfaces that suit it are the ones other people look at. Laptop lids in a coffee shop. A hard shell suitcase. A water bottle that goes to the gym. Anything that gets carried around rather than kept on a desk.
Deep granite, stone brown and antique gold hold their edge at three metres in a way pastels do not. That sounds like a small thing and it is the entire difference between the two $18 sets. If the object lives in a bag and comes out in rooms full of people, high contrast is doing real work for you.
One caveat specific to this sign. If the laptop is company equipment that sits in client meetings, the vintage poster designs are large and legible enough to be a statement, and some people want that and some people very much do not. The soft set exists for the second case.
The goat statue and vintage poster pieces are the designs people ask about most, and they are the ones that need room. They sit at the top of the 2 to 3 inch range because the type stops reading if it is any smaller, so a notebook cover or a laptop lid suits them better than a narrow curved bottle.
If you already collect sea goat stickers, and there are not many of us, this Capricorn sticker pack sits in that category rather than the mountain goat one. The celestial pieces in particular read as decorative illustration first, which is why they work on a sketchbook beside things that have nothing to do with astrology.
How these Capricorn sticker pack are made
Every one of these Capricorn sticker pack is printed and cut by me, on my own machine, in my studio. Nothing goes out through a print on demand service, which is why the turnaround is 5 to 7 business days rather than same day.
The stock behind these Capricorn sticker pack is waterproof laminated vinyl. The lamination is the part doing the work: it is what lets them survive a water bottle in a dishwasher and a laptop that lives in a bag. They are fade resistant rather than fade proof, and I would rather say that plainly. A sticker on a car window in full sun all summer will lighten eventually. One on a laptop, a notebook or a tumbler will not.
Sizes run roughly 2 to 3 inches on the longest edge, die cut to the shape of the art rather than left on a square. Each design arrives as its own individual sticker, not a sheet you have to cut apart.
If you want to know what that means in practice: the Capricorn sticker pack in your order were made in the week you placed it, on a machine I own, in a room I pay rent on. That is the entire supply chain, and it is why I can tell you exactly what happened to them.
Every one of the Capricorn sticker pack is printed fresh once you order, so nothing has been sitting in a box losing colour for a year before it reaches you.
Putting them on so they last
The Capricorn sticker pack go on best on a surface that is clean, dry and not textured. Wipe it with rubbing alcohol rather than a household spray, because most sprays leave a film that stops the adhesive gripping properly. Let it dry fully.
Peel from a corner, lay one edge down first, then press outward from that edge so you push the air out rather than trapping it under the middle.
Give it a day before you get it wet. The adhesive keeps curing for about 24 hours, and the most common reason a corner lifts is a water bottle that went straight into a bag and then into a fridge.
The Capricorn sticker pack use a permanent adhesive rather than a repositionable one. You get a few seconds to adjust and then it is committed. Hand wash anything you put them on, because a dishwasher’s drying cycle is what ages laminated vinyl fastest.
The Capricorn sticker pack as a birthday gift
This is the set that gets bought as a Capricorn birthday gift more than the other two combined, and the reason is not subtle. It photographs well and it gets a reaction when it comes out of the envelope. If you need the person to visibly react, this is the one.
Capricorn season runs 22 December to 19 January, which is the worst birthday window in the zodiac for getting a gift that is actually about you. If you are buying for somebody whose birthday sits in that dead week, a separate parcel arriving in January is worth more than anything you can wrap on the 25th.
Everything is printed and cut to order in my studio, so the 5 to 7 business day window is production time before a carrier is involved. Order by the start of December for a late December birthday, or aim deliberately for mid January and let it arrive on its own.
The other thing worth knowing is that this Capricorn sticker pack is twelve separate stickers rather than one sheet. That matters for gifting, because it looks like twelve things instead of one thing, and because there is nothing to cut apart before the person can start using them.
Why Capricorn is like this
Capricorn opens winter at the solstice, the day the light turns around on a date you cannot feel it at all, and will not feel it for months.
So the strategy is endurance without feedback. Doing the next thing correctly when nothing you do produces visible progress, because the turn has genuinely happened and the evidence simply has not arrived yet.
Capricorn is not cold and it is not joyless. Capricorn is standing at the one point in the year where the reward is months away and the work is right now, and carrying that reads as grim from the outside.
Not because Capricorn does not want the good part. But because at this moment in the year the good part is not available to anybody, and somebody has to keep the whole thing running through the stretch where none of it pays off yet.
Also in the Capricorn collection
Twelve designs in a pale slate and oat palette. The warm version of the sign, for things that are already quiet.
$18See this bundle
Twenty designs across both aesthetics, plus Capricorn Mom, which is only in this box.
$32See this bundleCommon questions
Are these Capricorn sticker pack waterproof?
Yes. They are printed on laminated vinyl, so they hold up on water bottles, tumblers and anything that gets wet regularly. The lamination does it, not the ink.
How big are they?
Roughly 2 to 3 inches on the longest edge, die cut to the shape of the artwork. A tall design and a wide design will not come out the same dimensions.
How many stickers do I actually get?
12 separate Capricorn sticker pack, one per design. It is not a sheet, so there is nothing to cut apart and no backing grid to peel around.
Will they fade in the sun?
Fade resistant, not fade proof. Indoors on a laptop, a notebook or a tumbler they hold colour for years. On a car window facing full sun, expect them to lighten over a season or two.
Can I buy single designs instead of the bundle?
Singles are on my Etsy shop. The bundle exists because buying six singles costs more than buying the set, not because I am hiding the individual ones.
How long does shipping take?
5 to 7 business days from my studio, because the Capricorn sticker pack get printed after you order rather than before. That window is real production time, because your order gets printed and cut when it comes in rather than pulled off a shelf.
What if they arrive damaged?
Tell me and I will fix it. The refund policy has the details, but the short version is that I am not going to argue with you about a bent sticker.
Do the three Capricorn bundles overlap?
Partly. Complete is my pick across both aesthetics plus a couple of exclusives, not a straight merge. Soft and Bold together come to more designs than Complete does, so if you want literally everything, buy those two.
What is in the bold Capricorn stickers set exactly?
Twelve designs: editorial girl group art, vintage CAPRICORN poster lettering, a goat statue piece, tarot portraits and celestial sea goat designs. The palette runs deep granite, stone brown and antique gold.
Why a sea goat rather than a mountain goat?
Because that is what the symbol actually is. Capricorn is a goat with a fish tail and has been since the Babylonian lists. The mountain goat version is a modern shorthand, and once you have seen the real one it is hard to go back.
Does this Capricorn sticker pack overlap with the soft bundle?
Not at all. Soft is twelve designs and Bold is twelve, with no repeats between them. The complete bundle is the only place designs from both show up together.
Will the gold designs still look gold when they arrive?
They are printed antique gold rather than foiled, so they read as a rich warm ochre rather than a metallic shine. If you were expecting foil I would rather tell you now than have you open the envelope and be surprised.
If you want the reading rather than the stickers
The Capricorn sticker pack are the light version. If you want to know which stretch of the year your own sun, moon and rising are each built out of, that is a different thing.
The Seasonal Blueprint Mini covers those three placements for $29, written for your chart rather than for your sign in general. The Resource Vault is free if you would rather read a complete sample first.
Keep reading
- All three Capricorn bundles
- Things people get wrong about a Capricorn sun
- What zodiac traits actually mean
Singles and other signs are on my Etsy shop.