Tag tearing templates at Mikes

[Mahloumel]

I was wandering through the wall stenciling section of Michaels and found some metal tearing template sets by Plaid. One was a tag shape, another was a circle, and the third was a heart. They were maybe in the 3" or 4" size range, and consisted of a larger template with a hollow inside, and a smaller template that fits inside the larger one, so it's like you could make a small paper frame using these sets. They also have oval shapes, but these weren't carried at my Michaels.

I was just watching Carol Smith on The Shopping Channel, and one of the layouts they showed used one of the tag templates, but they weren't selling them on TSC. I just thought some of you may be interested, so now you know!

[MaryMary]

I am unfamiliar with "tearing" as it relates to the templates. Duh. How do you actually go about creating a tag with one of these. Thanks in advance for enlightening me!

Mary

[ninatar]

They are a heavy aluminum or some other metal in the shape of a square or heart with the same raggety edge as the SU's tearing tool. And they really work!

Nina

[Mahloumel]

You can create your edge by tearing the paper along the template "as is" or you can spritz with some water or do the old Qtip trick to get a tear that is more true to the edge of the template. The example I saw on TSC looked quite nice, especially considering I didn't expect to like it that much. I don't know why on Earth these tearing templates were in with the wall stenciling paints and templates. They are fairly inexpensive -- ~$10 CDN (~$5 US?).

[Glittergal]

This sounds cool, definitely something I'll want to check out - so thanks for the heads-up on this one! Linda

[auntie65]

I work at a Micheals, and some of the supplies are in really strange places. I think they want you to shop around for other things. I can't tell you how many times I've help people find exactly what they wanted that was in another aisle other than the expected one. It can drive you crazy!

[crazycatstamper]

Wall stenciling, huh? Ours are hidden on the back wall, next to the glass painting supplies. There is a 2' wide section for paper painting and that's where they are in our store. The problem I have with the "M Stores" here is that I have 4 within a 20 mile radius of me and THEY DON'T CARRY THE SAME STUFF.... only one store carrys Store In Style products. I was looking for something last summer and only the store across town had it. Totally wierd.