About using papers for my hexies. I suppose you can say I am cheap, but I use the paper that comes in the warm and natural and sometimes the cards that come in the magazines for the templates for the hexies. I then take a copy of hexagrams that I can get on the web and copy it. Take that to my sewing machine and stitch through the cards (about three or more at a time) using a very small stitch (no thread or bobbin thread in machine and I use an old sewing machine needle that doesn't have a burr or anything else wrong with it). They just tear apart when I am finished and only really take a few minutes to make. I keep a supply on hand and since I haven't done anything with my hexies in ten years, I keep needing new template papers.
I would imagine if I had been buying the templates for the last ten years, I would have a small fortune in them. So, I just go the cheap route.