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05:05 PM - 07/01/2025

The topic: Why does it go like this?

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Years ago, I bought a Silhouette Curio machine (I've since got the newer one). And like I always do, I get all the extras and consumables I might want to use. The Curio does etching. Like in metal. I bought a fair amount of different sizes of bracelet blanks, dog tags, and the sheets for making stencils. 

Playing with the shadow box maker, the 1/4" punch didn't put the hole in the right place to work on the shadow box. I played around with it, punching many holes on paper, but nothing lined up right on the shadow box. I finally got one that was perfect placement on the shadow box cover sheet, but now what? How do I replicate this?

I ordered a 1/4" hole punch from Amazon and figured I will make a guide for the hole placement. I figured that Curio stencil material would work nicely. Except I had no idea where it was. I found the metal blanks, I found the tools, but I could not find the stencil stuff.

I pulled out my bag of acetate sheets, maybe they'd work, but still looked for the stencils. Probably spent an hour searching when I finally looked in the storage container under the new Curio and I opened it. Well, damn, who'd have guessed the Curio supplies would be in the Curio storage container? Not me.

Anyway, I ended up going with the acetate. It wasn't as thick as the stencil material and it's clear where the stencil is translucent. 

I made a couple of the guides. Now, I'm ready to actually make some different sizes of shadow boxes. 

At least I found my Curio stuff. 

A sad aside - the website where I bought the stencil material is no longer there. Their last post on Facebook was the end of last year. They were a super company to deal with.

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