Pastel Capricorn stickers
The hardest workers need the softest landings.
Pastel Capricorn stickers, 12 zodiac designs in a pale slate and oat palette. Waterproof die cut vinyl, printed in my studio, shipped in 5 to 7 days. $18.
- 12 individual die cut designs
- Pale slate, oat and soft mauve palette
- Pastel mountains and goats, soft script lettering, rainbows, hearts and cottagecore peaks
What the pastel Capricorn stickers bundle contains
This is the version of the sign nobody bothers to make: pastel Capricorn stickers in a pale slate and oat palette, meaning pastel mountains and goats, soft script lettering, rainbows, hearts and cottagecore peak scenes.
The colour story runs cool and muted. Pale slate, warm oat, a soft mauve, and enough negative space that nothing in the set fights with anything else. It sits well on things that are already quiet, which is most of what people actually put stickers on: a journal that lives in a bag, a laptop lid with one thing on it, a water bottle you look at forty times a day.
The pastel Capricorn stickers are the version you can put on a work laptop without anybody deciding something about you first. Every other set of Capricorn zodiac stickers I have seen is a briefcase joke or a mountain in black and grey, and neither one is a person.
Who the pastel Capricorn stickers are for
- The Capricorn who has been the reliable one since roughly age eleven and would quite like one soft thing that is theirs.
- Anybody who has searched aesthetic Capricorn stickers and found nothing but grindset quotes and black mountains.
- People who want the sign present without it announcing itself across a room. The cottagecore peak scenes in particular read as a nice piece of art first and a zodiac thing second.
If you want the version with the ascent in it, buy the Bold bundle rather than the pastel Capricorn stickers. It is a genuinely different look rather than a louder one.
Where the pastel Capricorn stickers actually end up
The honest answer about where pastel Capricorn stickers go is that almost all of them end up on three surfaces: a laptop lid, a water bottle, and the front of a notebook. I know this because people send me photos, and it is the same three things every time.
The palette matters more on those surfaces than you would guess. A laptop lid is usually silver, white or space grey, and a pale slate peak sits on that like it was always meant to be there. A deep granite poster design on the same lid reads as a statement instead. Neither one is wrong, but only one of them stays quiet in a work meeting.
That distinction matters more for this sign than most, because Capricorn is the sign most likely to be putting a sticker on a laptop that goes into actual offices. If the object is work equipment, the soft set is the one that will not become a conversation.
Water bottles are the surface people worry about most and the one this stock handles best. The lamination is what survives condensation, a bag and being knocked around on a desk all day. The one thing I would say is to hand wash it, because a dishwasher drying cycle ages laminated vinyl faster than anything else you can do to it.
Journals and planners are where the smaller pastel Capricorn stickers earn their place. The hearts and the small goat pieces sit around two inches, which is the size that works on a page without taking the whole page. If you already own a drawer of cottagecore zodiac stickers, these go in beside them without clashing with any of it.
The one surface I would think twice about is a car window. These are fade resistant rather than fade proof, and full sun across a summer lightens a pale slate faster than it lightens a deep colour. That is a physics problem rather than a quality one, and I would rather say it before you order than after.
How these pastel Capricorn stickers are made
Every one of these pastel Capricorn stickers 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 pastel Capricorn stickers 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 pastel Capricorn stickers 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 pastel Capricorn stickers 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 pastel Capricorn stickers 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 pastel Capricorn stickers 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.
Buying pastel Capricorn stickers as a gift
Most Capricorn gift ideas are some version of telling the person they work hard. A desk organiser, a planner, a mug about hustle, a book about discipline. It is a strange thing to give somebody whose whole complaint is that this is all anybody sees.
Stickers get used, and that is the case for them. An $18 set of pastel Capricorn stickers turns into twelve small decisions over the following year about where each one goes, which is a great deal more attention than another planner ever gets.
The timing on this sign needs saying properly. Capricorn season runs 22 December to 19 January, so half the birthdays land in the dead zone between Christmas and New Year, and a lot of Capricorns have spent their whole lives getting one combined present. Everything here is printed and cut to order in my studio, and my window is 5 to 7 business days before a carrier is involved. Order by the start of December for a late December birthday.
If you are choosing between the two $18 sets for somebody else, look at their desk. Beige, wood, one plant and a lot of white space means this one. Anything already committed to a strong colour means the bold one. The soft capricorn sticker bundle is the safer read when you genuinely do not know, because a quiet design on a loud object still works and the reverse does not.
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 celestial designs with vintage posters, a goat statue and sea goat art. Built to be seen from across a room.
$18See this bundle
Twenty designs across both aesthetics, plus Capricorn Mom, which is only in this box.
$32See this bundleCommon questions
Are these pastel Capricorn stickers 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 pastel Capricorn stickers, 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 pastel Capricorn stickers 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.
Are the pastel Capricorn stickers the same size as the bold ones?
Yes. Every design across all three bundles runs roughly 2 to 3 inches on the longest edge and is die cut to the shape of the art. What changes between bundles is the palette and the mood, not the scale.
What exactly is in the soft bundle?
Twelve designs: pastel mountains and goats, soft script lettering, rainbows, hearts and cottagecore peak scenes. The colour story runs cool and muted the whole way through, so nothing in the set fights with anything else in it.
Are these subtle enough for a work laptop?
Yes, and that is who this set is for. The pale slate and oat designs read as line illustration from a metre away. If you want somebody across the room to know the sign, that is the bold bundle.
Can I put these on a phone case?
Yes, as long as it is smooth rather than textured. Grippy matte silicone is the one material vinyl struggles with, because there is not enough flat surface for the adhesive to grip properly.
If you want the reading rather than the stickers
The pastel Capricorn stickers 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.