Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Make Your Own Marking and Center Finder Tool - FreeTutorial

Welcome to my blog.  I've been designing jewelry that requires precise placement of embellishments or design elements and I was generally just eyeballing the placement.  I found that my placement was a bit wonky and I was somewhat disappointed in the final product because the placement of design elements was just simply off.

I went searching for a marking template that I could use to find the center of a shape and then allow equidistant marking around the shape.  Couldn't find anything that met my needs so I decided to make my own marking and center finder templates.  I thought you all might have a similar need.  I'm making this free test tutorial available for a limited time.  Here's a video and .pdf tutorial with instructions on how to make marking and center finder templates for a circle, oval, rectangle and square.  There are two overall sizes of templates - 4" and 3.5".  Each template has a 1/8" and 1/4" guide lines.  Choose the one that works for you and voila! a set of templates that you can use over and over.

Check out the video and download the .pdf  Jewelry Shape Marking and Center Finder (follow the link, click "File", then click "Download" and save the file to your computer) free tutorial available with a complete set of instructions, templates and resource list.  Leave me a comment and tell me how you liked this test tutorial.  Hope you enjoy.






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14 comments:

  1. SherJune 27, 2014 at 11:14 AM

    This solves a number of problems for me. Thanks for making a good tutorial!l

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    1. Sweet Willow DesignsJune 27, 2014 at 12:13 PM

      Sher, I'm glad you enjoyed the tutorial. I've found this set of tools very helpful.

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  2. UnknownJune 27, 2014 at 10:14 PM

    The PDF and video are both great. I have been using small templates for my buttons but couldn't figure out how to do bigger ones and get the holes punched in so far. Now I have the MS Screw Punch and in addition to creating your's from the tutorial, I can create some designed for a few other projects of mine. Thanks so much. I am sure many many others will also benefit from this great new tool to make our work more professional.

    Have always admired your work and inventiveness. You go Girl!

    Mayd Marian

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    1. Sweet Willow DesignsJune 29, 2014 at 10:02 PM

      Marian, so glad you enjoyed the tutorial! The templates would work great adapted for buttons. Thanks for the encouragement.

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  3. MichelleFebruary 13, 2015 at 6:34 AM

    Thank you for sharing this awesome tutorial.

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    1. Sweet Willow DesignsMarch 23, 2015 at 8:18 AM

      So glad you enjoyed this. Sorry for the late reply, these were stuck in moderation for some reason.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 7, 2015 at 6:34 PM

    what a wonderful tutorial and resource. great idea and i love your templates and videos on youtube. please continue to make more tutorials!

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  5. SandeeMarch 20, 2015 at 3:01 PM

    Thank you, this is fabulous! Off to buy some transperancy:)

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    1. Sweet Willow DesignsMarch 23, 2015 at 8:19 AM

      Hope this works out for you. Thanks so much for watching.

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  6. Pam AnnesleyApril 4, 2015 at 9:12 PM

    Thank you so much for these templates. It's good of you to share. I will find them useful for my polymer and zentangle drawing.

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    1. Sweet Willow DesignsApril 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM

      Pam, so glad you enjoyed this tool. Thanks for watching and commenting.

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  7. Olga NicolasJune 22, 2015 at 11:51 AM

    Thank you for sharing these great templates!

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2016 at 3:18 PM

    thanks so much for sharing this tutorial I have been looking all over for something like these and finally found them here on your blog!!

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