The Counter-Strike 2 development team regularly adds fresh skins and stickers to the game. The community, in turn, comes up with new combinations. The CS.MONEY Blog has picked five of the coolest CS2 crafts from the past month and is ready to share them with you.
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Best CS2 crafts from community
The CS2 community regularly finds interesting ways to replace expensive skins and stickers with stickers. Today, we’ll tell you about a fake Glock-18 Fade, how to add a holographic shimmer to the iBuyPower Kato 14 paper sticker, and a unique crafting project for racing enthusiasts.
Fake Glock-18 Fade by Konerd1
- Skin: Glock-18 Moonrise
- Stickers: 1x The Mongolz (Holo, Ranked), 1x NRG (Holo, Ranked),1x Astralis (Holo, Ranked),1x BetBoom (Holo, Ranked), and 1x THUNDERdOWNUNDER (Holo, Ranked)
The Glock-18 Fade is one of the most expensive skins in the game, costing around $1,500. But you can create a craft with a gradient and even a holographic effect for a fraction of the price of the original. All you need is a Glock-18 Moonrise and five stickers from different teams, carefully placed right next to each other. A couple of minutes in the editor, and you have a fake Gradient in your inventory. Just don’t rush, or you might have to reapply the stickers!
Chopped Dragon by CounterStrike2ishere
- Skin: MAC-10 Arabesque Mosaic
- Stickers: 5x Dragon Fruit (Foil)
Dragons are the most popular type of mythical creature in CS2. There are dragon stickers, dragon skins, and even patches! But a dragon-building set appeared only recently in the Fruits And Veggies sticker collection. Take five Dragon Fruit (Foil) stickers, scrape them carefully, and rotate them skillfully to build a dragon piece by piece. It looks fresh, juicy, and… delicious.
AK-47 with All the Hearts by vanity
- Skin: AK-47 AUTOEXEC
- Stickers: 4x Taste Buddy (Holo) and 1x Econometer (Lenticular)
The AK-47 AUTOEXEC is one of the newest “red AKs” in CS2. It has a modern art style, but something seems to be missing. For example, holographic hearts! That’s exactly what vanity suggests adding to the handguard to complete the pattern that runs from the magazine onto the body of the weapon.
Holographic Kato14 Sticker from a Regular One by FlareyCS
- Skin: Any
- Stickers: 1x iBUYPOWER Katowice 2014 and 1x 3DMAX (Holo) Austin 2025
Stickers from the EMS One Katowice 2014 Major have a well-deserved legendary status. There are very few holographic versions of them, and each one costs thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. But there is a way to turn a paper sticker into a holographic one. How? By applying a 3DMAX (Holo) Austin 2025 sticker on top of it! The shades of red on both stickers are similar, so the result looks as if the paper iBUYPOWER Kato14 sticker has become holographic. In terms of money, that’s a tenfold increase in value, but only in appearance.
Finish Line by SomeRandomCube
- Skin: USP-S Para Green
- Stickers: 5x Sand Dune Baja Tour
The last craft for today is a bit unusual. The thing is, it looks just okay on its own. But when paired with Moto Gloves Finish Line, any skin starts to look completely different. It’s all about the harmonious combination of the checkerboard patterns. This is best seen with the USP-S Para Green, but you can try it with other skins too, such as the Desert Eagle Conspiracy or P2000 Turf. It’s a great example of how the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.
Crafts are cool, but monochrome inventories are even better. Check out, for example, this top red loadout for CS2. And when you’re ready to buy skins for it, you already know where to find the best deals — on the CS.MONEY Market.
FAQ
CS2 crafts are custom skin-and-sticker combinations created by players to give weapons a unique appearance.
You can use five Dragon Fruit (Foil) stickers on a MAC-10 Arabesque Mosaic and carefully position them to create a dragon.
Yes. FlareyCS showed that applying a 3DMAX (Holo) Austin 2025 sticker over an iBUYPOWER Katowice 2014 sticker can create a holographic-looking effect.
