Hi everyone this is Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks here to show you how
to fit a silicone mat to any silicone mold. I will be sharing information in
the description below of where I got some of my supplies. So for this project
we're going to use two pieces of paper or a paper long enough to be just a
little bit longer than the widest side of the mold, so in this case I had to
tape two regular pieces of paper together to get a length long enough and
this is going to be our makeshift ruler. And the good thing about this is it's
flexible and it's not like a rigid ruler that won't really fit inside the mold.
Okay now that you have your two pieces together just fit it up to the very edge
of the mold and on the other edge you just make a crease and mark it and then
just try and make sure that that same mark is at the same spot at the edge of
your mold. Snd then repeat the same thing on the other direction.
So I have my two lines and now I'm going to make a template, and this is just
poster board you could really use anything but something a little thicker
than paper works the best. So I'm marking my thinner side of the mold and
I'm gonna make a few marks and join them together with a ruler and you could just
use the scissors to cut this or in this case I happen to have a rotary cutter
that it makes quick work of this. But if you use an exacto
knife or a rotary cutter you need a cutting mat like this.
Then cut the other edge of your template.
Okay now we're going to check the fit.
So now I'm finding the best spot to cut it where I think it's centered the
most on the design without wasting the edge. I could probably do something else
with the edges. So I'm going to cut around exactly to the edge of my template. And
If you're using a rotary cutter or exacto knife you probably should use a
thicker ruler than I used because your fingers awful close to the edge there.
And now we have our mat. Okay and let's see how it fits.