Originally Posted by brookemarie19
Do you know if there is going to be a tutorial on how to make plastic templates? I want to get started but would hate to mess up in the very beginning
Making plastic templates is really not much different than making paper templates. If you have printed out the paper templates, make an extra set. You can actually glue the paper to the template plastic and cut using the printed lines. Rubber cement works well to attach the paper to the plastic and is easy to remove.
A suggestion for those that want sturdier templates, but don't want to do plastic.
You can print your templates onto freezer paper. And then press a couple of layers of freezer paper together to get a nice stiff template.
To print onto freezer paper: This only works for ink jet printers. **Do not try to print freezer paper in a laser printer.**
If you are using off the roll freezer paper you need to support it some. If you have printed off the templates onto regular paper, use that as a guide. Press just the top (leading) edge of the freezer paper to regular printer paper. A scant half inch along the top of the freezer paper is plenty to anchor it in place. You do not have to have the freezer paper cover the whole page. Just the part of the page that has the templates you want to print. The pressed on edge should be beyond that because you will not be able to use that edge. <G>
Once you have the freezer paper printed you can either cut out the template and press to a second/third piece of freezer paper, or press 2-3 layers together then cut out (saves time in cutting. :) )
If it is okay I will post a note about another way to use freezer paper templates for hand piecing.
Hope this helps some.
Pati, in Phx