I have a Cricut scrapping booking machine. I cut my hexs with my circut. I'm new to EPP and I tried cardstock, paste board (boxes of my cake mixes) and a heavy plastic sheet that is meant for front and back of printed booklets. I like the cardstock the best. I punched a hole in the middle and remove the template as soon as I have that piece with hexs all around. I'm using templates more than once. If I run out of templates (as my project grows) I cut another page of them out with my Cricut.