Also looking for a way to display buttons from election campaigns, etc.

Recently at the Room and Board store in Chicago, they had vintage luggage labels with cream mats around them in frames square black frames. I loved the look and am thinking of doing it with vintage postcards. You might want to to do something similar with your favorite stickers or fill a whole wall of them if you have the money for tons of frames!

Check out the work of flat vernacular, they use stickers (though animals and florals, but hey you can tweak the idea) to create artworks or, on a large scale, wallpaper.

Buy large black frames with glass and arrange the collection within - by color, shape, theme, type, year, whatever. Then cluster the frames - up a staircase, along a wall. The frames Gould be maybe 30 by 20 - if that works for the sixe of the stickers. Mount on black or another dark, neutral color.

I recently ran across this idea on how to display children's artwork, and it could work well for this too. It's basically a really large frame with a white mat. Each piece is displayed in clean lines and rows. The key is that you leave a lot of white space in between each 'piece' (or sticker in your case). Hope you find some inspiration here. Here's the link to a pic: (http://remodelista.com/date/2011/01/11#post_5780)

In a very tall, wide glass vase. Just throw them in. I did this with concert ticket stubs and they look great.

In your Trapper-Keeper?

This type of thing is best kept in a scrapbook - not on the walls.

You could also display them under glass on a desk or coffee table. Could be a great conversation starter and you could easily rotate them if you have too many to display on a single table.

Thanks for that link Bondon as that may help for my teenagers as we work on updating their rooms this summer.

A couple of ideas...

[1] If you have a favorite few stickers, select them and put one each in an oversized picture frame. Then, per @lolagirl's idea, put the remainder in a glass vase, located next to the frames (e.g., you can put the frames on a shelf, and the vase can be next to the shelf).

[2] I think you can get away with putting them on a board, if it's not one large board and there's an interesting geometry with the boards. For example, I'm imagining two or three 1.5' x 6' boards that you can cover with the stickers. Then hang the boards either vertically or horizontally, depending on your room.

[3] I think I've seen someone use old record covers as cubby doors to the Ikea Expedit bookshelf -- which you could probably adapt for your stickers.

[4] I'm assuming you don't actually want to stick them, but there's also something classic about a guitar case covered with stickers.

Put up two rows of molding, like a chair rail or a border, and stick them in a single file row around the room.

Or, pin them in a case or something like you would do for a bug collection, to give them a little more dimensionality and presence.

For your best stickers get some small frames. Put them up on the wall. For the rest of your stickers get a good size pocket photo album. Or several pocket books. Sort each sticker by group (sports, advertising, humor, location) When you get tired of the stickers on the wall switch them out with stickers in your books

Stick them on your trash can (large/tall chrome-y one) and your recycling bin. Ours are much happier now that they are covered.

Have a piece of glass cut to fit a tabletop and display them under the glass. I have an collection of vintage luggage labels and have them displayed this way......it's attractive and the labels stay well preserved under glass.

I have a wall of old photos that I displayed matted on black paper inside of old CD jewel cases. Hardly anyone recognizes the jewel cases for what they are, and I've received a lot of compliments on them. Besides, they look cleaner and are a TON cheaper than buying a bunch of small frames. Stick them up with some command adhesive.

@51desks: I have a collection of buttons that I inherited from my parents. I bought a rather large embroidery hoop and painted it, then found an attractive and non-busy piece of fabric to put in it. I then arranged the buttons on the fabric. It makes a nice wall piece.

The "under glass on a coffee table/whatever" seems like the best option to me... you won't even need to peel them off their backing, that way.

When i was kid, my neighbor was a WACKY PACKY collector. He overlapped them on his bedroom door (both sides) His dad used a sealant and it was super cool. The funny story is about 5 years ago I ran into and told him how I remembered the door and he told me, when his parents retired and sold the family home, he took the door and now it's the door to his 11-year old son's door (in a new house)

@51desks- I had some wide fabric ribbon/tape (you could probably find some at a craft or fabric store; I actually got mine off of a fleece blanket from Target) that I tied into a loop at one end. I hung all my pins from that ribbon and hung the ribbon off a hook on my wall. It's primitive and could probably use some more planning/embellishment, but that's how I'm displaying all my pins/buttons.

Another thing you could do is frame a sheet of cork or buy a corkboard. I use it to hang my jewelry but found out it also works for my brooches, as well.

pretend they are butteries or insects and pin them in shadow boxes? grouped by shape or color or some theme.

What about laid out flat on a desk with a piece of glass covering the entire surface?

I think you will really need to be selective and decide which are your favorites. I think those should be displayed in a grouping of frames, as others have suggested. The others can go in an album, or somewhere en masse, preferably not actually stuck down.

Hmmm. Unless you're Andy Travis and you're the program director at WKRP, I'm not sure that a whole pile of stickers can be tastefully displayed.

Do you have a spare bathroom? Maybe you could make a sticker collage on the back of the door, to give people something to look at while they're on the toilet. (I'm only half-joking... I have bizarre artwork for just this purpose in my own home!)

I thought JMZ said to throw them in the trash/recycling.

Whew.

Get a very large frame and group them by colour in a grid, not haphazardly!

What about getting a large picture frame with wide, flat edges and covering the FRAME with stickers? You could put a simple, bright print in the frame and allow the frame to be the highlight of the piece. A frame like this: http://mybarnwoodframes.com/myfiles/Black%20Wood%20Frames%20-%205x5%20Opening%20Square%20Frame%20849L.jpg ,maybe, covered in stickers. Or you could get a simple frame and put a wide mat inside, covered in stickers, with a small, simple print in the middle.

I love framing stuff but it can be a little tricky getting the objects to stay in place. I started giving paper items a small dab on the back with a childrens gluestick. If you don't go mad with glue power and cover the entire back you can easily peel the stickers off when you want to rotate them.

I like the frame idea. You could do it neatly, a la collection style. Or mash them together to make a collage, with set sideways or upside-down and overlapping other stickers. If they were wedged between the glass and frame backing tight enough, you could probably get away with not removing the stickers' backing too.

@contessab - that's what I thought so at first. And then "whew.." but then I realized JMZ actually meant that he should USE them and I thought "NOOO!" I mean, these are collectibles for the owner. Using them is silly.

Put the stickers on sheets of magnet, then cut them out. You can put them on fridge doors, tool boxes, ect and still be able to remove them and put them in frames etc. Makes them more versile than just regular stickers.

If you're wanting it to look "adult" and not damage the stickers, consider mounting them on pins like someone would do with insect or butterfly collections.

So that you don't have pin holes punching through them, you can use flat head pins and a tiny bit of museum putty (sticky tac) on the back side of the sticker to adhere it to the pin. Then, stick the pin into a fabric backing and frame in a shadow box style.

Given that stickers are usually bright, colorful and busy - try sticking with a neutral fabric backing and a neutral frame. Black and white, black and cream or black and light tan.

OK, the trapper keeper comment is hysterical.

I think it depends on your style

- mounted into a huge frame or canvas similar to "paint chip art" by color (as opposed to type, etc.) could look really geometric and modern (like books in a shelf sorted by color instead of author or type).
- strung like a garland could be sweet and more kitsch/retro
- large glass vase stuffed full is more traditional

Wallpaper! http://paytonturner.com/wallpaper%201.html

erm ... you're old now. get over it. not using the stickers when you were young was quite the waste.

If you're also an album collector... get some thin board/cork board/etc to cover with the stickers that are album sized. I prefer a look like the one shown in the picture with your comment so they're all overlapping, but if you don't want to cover the stickers, Find a cool paper or cloth to cover the board with first (also will work to pin buttons on), then add stickers (use double sided tape if you don't want to take off the back). Find some type of wall tracking (along these lines http://www.datacontrolinc.com/accessories.html#top or use some crown molding/trim/etc that's angled so you can use it to slide the pieces in), and place them around the room as you'd like (if you have a bunch, I'd stagger them), so you can slide your sticker boards and albums around as you please. You can obviously do this with out the albums, but it'd be nice to break up all the stickers with something else music related! If you have band t-shirts, you could wrap those around the boards and slid them in the track, too.

I would buy some really fun and funky picture frames to display them in. You could work with them so they are collaged. You don't have to take the sticker paper off the back. You can get some temporary adhesive in the scrapbook section of the craft store and adhere them to the frame backing that way.

I put my sticker collection in my art studio, in a racing stripe pattern, horizontally around the whole room (with black walls).

Can't believe I missed this question the first time around!

My favorite solution? I stick them onto magnet sheets and then cut them out carefully. Now I can stick and restick my favorite stickers on my fridge, magnetic board, filing cabinets, etc.

Here's a photo of some of my favorite stickers converted into magnets: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2923630218_6c33b318be.jpg

You'll notice that, as with real stickers, you can not only stick them, but overlap them without the commitment.