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I want to buy some plastic sheets to use for my die cuts.
It's the stuff that can be used as dividers or covers for note books.
It's quite thick, heavy duty stuff & comes in several colours ( I need pink, black & white if possible ).
I want to use my dies to make shapes ala Queen & Co styleee.
Does anyone know what the heck I'm talking about cos now even I'm confused.
Any pointers...not in the direction of the nearest mental institution thanks.
Sonia
Do you mean sticky backed laminate ? or Formica ??
I know what you mean and have seen it somewhere, but haven't a clue what it's called so don't know why I'm replying really :D
Could you use actual plastic dividers and cut from that?
Mandychap
Could it be plasma? I saw this plastic product online but haven't seen it in real life. It's from a company that doesn't sponsor here so if that is what you mean pm me and I'll send you the link.
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It's called polypropylene and you can big sheets of it at Paperchase in Tottenham Court Road (probably any of their big shops) :)
Do you mean sticky backed laminate ? or Formica
No Def not this, thanks.
Could you use actual plastic dividers and cut from that?
It's actually very much this but a tad more sturdier IYKWIM.
No Paperchase near me unfortunately :(
Sonia
I would agree with this. the lippychick wallets are made from it and I thnik they call it plasma too.Quote:
Originally Posted by VerityT
I have some thick acetate sheets in the store - only clear though. PM me with your address and I will send you one as a sample to see if that is what you want:huh:
Has anybody tried using Shrink Plastic - I wonder if you could use it 'unshrunk' for this?
I just made myself a notebook using this sort of plastic as the cover - Tesco sell A4 folders for 50p that are this material, and so I bought those and cut them up.
I agree with Dawn and Wombat, I think you're after plasma. I have seen it on a craft site, I think they sold card blanks made out of it too. I can't remember what the site it called though!
Googled it and found a firm that sells 7 A3 sheets for £10 - one in each of 7 colours.
Hun could you PM me the details please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janp
Trust me I am resourceful as possible. I have the folders that have been mentioned in Tesco but I need a pink, black & white & I mostly have green, blue, purple & yellow.
Sonia
You can find the clear stuff as template plastic for quilting templates - Hobbycraft sells that.
You can get coloured plasma sheets from Partners - it is mega thick but sizzix will cut it. HTH
Craftwork Cards (who are a sponsor) sell sheets of plasma - as well as cards, tags and shapes. It's pretty heavy duty, should stand up to most uses. www.craftworkcards.co.uk.
Another thought would be heavy duty OHP plastic, would be easy to punch etc, if you were going to keep the stuff fairly flat. It's about the same thickness as the stuff some of the sets of clear stamps come on.
You could post on the shopping forum, for more suggestions from sponsors
Eileen
Another thought: I just had to look at the newly reopened One Purple Cow site and they have special sheets for holding stamps, which are already punched to go in a binder
Eileen
Personally, I use Marvec sheets for a couple of years now and it seems like it does the trick.
15.5 years! Must be a record.
Do you mean like to cut stencils from … if so that’s Mylar
Hilary - you are right - maybe this should be deleted now - it is probably not relevant at all.
Gosh - and I just replied!!!! well spotted