Tuesday, February 23, 2010

I made my own Bow Easy template

When I saw a Bow Easy template I thought I might try making one of my own to save a few bucks. I looked around for something made of thick plastic and found an old Tupperware lid I didn't need anymore.

I found a template here and sized it in a Word document. Then I printed it out and laid the Tupperware lid over it. I used a silver Sharpie so I could see it just enough to cut, but not enough to uglify it. Btw, Gamsol will remove Sharpie ink, at least from Tupperware lids. ;)



I cut it with my rubber-cutting scissors (the ones Stampin' Up! sells). Easy!

Here is the finished product. Mine is pretty crude compared to the actual product, but it'll do me fine.



Here's a photo tutorial for how to use it. And here's a video.

4 comments:

  1. wish I would have thought of this! :)

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  2. Hello. Thanks for sharing. I was wondering what size did you have to resize it to for it to come out the correct size?

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  3. Hi, Shelly, I can't remember exactly, but the Bow Easy is about 4.5" x 4.5", so I'd make the image with the red background about 5" x 5". You should be able to do that in the printing instructions on your computer. It might not be perfectly square, so just make one side 5" and the other side should be okay. Hope that helps!

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