We all know the craze for Counter-Strike skins, as players love customizing their items and adding flare to their loadouts while in the game. However, Counter-Strike has also implemented an awesome feature, which is the addition of stickers into the game.
Players are allowed to apply up to five stickers on their weapon skins, giving it additional designs, and bringing more life onto the skin. This additional customization allows players to have their weapon skins differ from the norm and express themselves. In this article, we’ll go through what crafting in Counter-Strike is, as well as the best crafts you can start thinking about.
What Is A “Craft” In CS2?
In the context of Counter-Strike, a “craft” is any weapon skin that has been applied with stickers to enhance its looks. They are known as “sticker crafts” as well. The stickers applied don’t necessarily matter in order to make a skin considered as a craft, but the trading community would only make a big deal out of expensive and top-tier crafts.
As you might know, there are stickers in the game worth hundreds up to tens of thousands of dollars, and these stickers cannot be refunded after being pasted on their weapons. As a result, high-end traders love applying such stickers on their one-of-a-kind weapon skins to mix and match designs.
Was Crafting Buffed In CS2?
Before getting into the best CS2 sticker crafts, we would like to briefly inform you that crafting has indeed been buffed with the release of Counter-Strike: 2. In Global Offensive, players can only apply up to four stickers, all in fixed positions.
However, Valve has allowed players to apply up to five stickers, and the best part is, that players can freely paste their stickers anywhere on the weapon skin. This has allowed endless possibilities of creativity for crafts. If you’re looking to craft some skins, now is the perfect time.
Best CS2 Sticker Crafts
With everything in mind, we’ll showcase some of the most creative sticker crafts in the game. As some crafts can get very expensive, we’ll feature crafts from varying price ranges so everyone can be included.
AK-47 | Jaguar “Face Off”
The first skin we’ll feature is the AK-47 | Jaguar, which is a classic skin from the eSports 2014 Summer Collection. The skin features a black jaguar facing towards the gun barrel of the skin. One creative thing you can do is to use a FURIA sticker, which is a professional Brazilian esports organization that also has a black jaguar as its logo. With this in mind, we can have two jaguars on the AK-47 instead of one.
You can place a FURIA | Paris 2023 in front of the primary jaguar. Since you have the freedom of placing the sticker anywhere, you can make the FURIA sticker face towards the jaguar, suggesting a face off. Another important detail is the Drug War Veteran sticker. You can place two of these stickers next to the FURIA sticker to act as bushes.
Craft Contents:
- AK-47 | Jaguar
- FURIA | Paris 2023
- Drug War Veteran
M4A4 | Temukau “Pokeball”
The M4A4 | Temukau screams anime, making it the perfect skin for Counter-Strike fans who love Japanese culture. Following the concept of anime, we all know that Pokemon is one of the most popular series ever, so why not mix in both?
The Temukau features a female Counter-Terrorist agent throwing her hand out in the air. In the area of her open palm, we can combine several stickers to form a Pokeball, making it seem like she is holding it up.
This craft can be tricky, as you will have to layer four stickers on top of each other to make the perfect Pokeball. The stickers required are listed down below. If done correctly, you would have made one of the most interesting crafts ever!
Craft Contents:
- M4A4 | Temukau
- woxic (Foil) | Katowice 2019
- FalleN | Krakow 2017
- Cloud9 (Holo) | Rio 2022
- NBK (Foil) | Cluj-Napoca 2015
Desert Eagle | Crimson Web “Spiderman”
The Crimson Web is a staple skin in the Counter-Strike scene, and this time, we’ll make use of the Desert Eagle. As the name of the skin makes it obvious already, this skin features spider webs over a crimson body. Do you know what else is crimson and related to spiders? Spiderman!
Using a combination of two team stickers, you can replicate Spiderman’s face extremely easily. You just have to stack a 9INE | Paris 2023 sticker over a forZe eSports | Paris 2023 sticker, and you should have a near-perfect Spiderman face on your Crimson Web. A craft really doesn’t get better than this. To add more spiders, you can use the Gold Web stickers from the Shattered Web Collection.
Craft Contents:
- Desert Eagle | Crimson Web
- 9INE | Paris 2023
- forZe eSports | Paris 2023
- Gold Web
AWP | Desert Hydra “420 Blaze It”
The AWP is arguably the most prestigious weapon in the game, and the Desert Hydra compliments its glory so well. However, one of the most disappointing features about the Desert Hydra is the lack of a detailed scope. No problem – stickers can solve the problem!
The body of the Desert Hydra is already as perfect as it is, so we’ll only apply stickers on the scope area. You can apply several Incineration (Holo) stickers around the scope area to make it seem like the scope is on fire. With this custom sticker craft, you can go around the server yelling “420 Blaze It” and start lighting the server on fire!
Craft Contents:
- AWP | Desert Hydra
- Incineration (Holo)
M4A4 | Radiation Hazard “Danger”
Next, we will use the M4A4 | Radiation Hazard, which is an old skin from the Nuke Collection. Following the concept of the nuclear plant-based map, the Radiation Hazard is a skin that alerts incoming hazards.
One cool thing you can do is to use the Smoke Criminal stickers, which show a smoke cloud with mischievous eyes alerting bad things to come. However, we are going to scrape these stickers until only their eyes are visible. We are going to apply these stickers on the radiation warning on the skin, so that the eyes from the sticker are displayed on the warning.
Craft Contents:
- M4A4 | Radiation Hazard
- Smoke Criminal (Scraped)
Desert Eagle | Night “Fake Blaze”
The Desert Eagle is one of the most iconic weapons in Counter-Strike for the famous “Juan Deags”. These one-taps are even more satisfying when you are using the Desert Eagle | Blaze, which is probably the best Deagle skin out there. However, the Blaze can be quite pricey, which is why we’ll make a “Fake Blaze” skin.
We are going to use the Desert Eagle | Night, which is a skin that is plain black. Then, we are going to apply multiple Incineration (Holo) stickers at the tip of the Night skin, similar to where the fire is placed on the Blaze. With four or five Incineration stickers, you can easily mimic the Desert Eagle | Blaze skin for much cheaper!
Craft Contents:
- Desert Eagle | Blaze
- Incineration (Holo)
AK-47 | Neon Rider “Dead Rider”
The AK-47 | Neon Rider has quickly become one of the best mid-tier AK-47 skins in the game thanks to its vibrant design. The most appealing part of the skin is the image of a rider that takes up a large portion of the skin. The person is wearing a biker helmet, which is pretty cool.
However, you can make the skin even cooler by using the Dead Eye (Holo) sticker, which essentially consists of a pair of goggles being shot through by a bullet. You can easily place this sticker on the helmet area of the rider to seem like they have been shot through their helmet. The main idea of this craft only requires you to apply one sticker, so you can add four more of your choice!
Craft Contents:
- AK-47 | Neon Rider
- Dead Eye (Holo)