Heidi, I went with what one of the girls in the group shared, if you have grid paper it would work best, I cut out my drawing I did on the grid paper and traced it onto a thick cardstock from a 6x6 pad I had used up and then cut that center out with my kraft knife. does that make sense? I will attach the picture she shared, she says she just puts this into her Misit and then puts her square piece of cardstock inside her drawn lines but I wanted to make a stencil. Let me know if I need to explain things better