Are Your Acrylic Plates Warped??

Do your acrylic plates look like this?

 How would you like to get them looking like this?

Our Big Shot acrylic plates become warped over time, making it difficult to position framelits/thinlits/edgelits dies over stamped images.


Well, I have a method to straighten them that actually works. I have tried other methods only to find dissatisfactory results.

What you will need:

• Aluminium foil
• Baking sheet 
• Very heavy pot *

Remove the top rack from your oven and pre-heat to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Wrap each acrylic plate individually in aluminum foil.

Stack the wrapped plates on a large baking sheet.

Place the baking sheet in the oven and stack the heavy pot on top of the plates. As you can see from the image, I easily stacked four plates.

‘Bake’ for 45-60 minutes.

Remove everything from the oven and place on a protective surface. Reassemble the stack. It's important to keep everything the way it was in the oven duing the cooling period.

Once cool unwrap the acrylic plates. They should now be flat.

Be sure to keep the aluminium foil for the next time.

* I use a cast iron pot (a Le Creuset knockoff that I purchased in Canadian Tire) and the lid. A large cast iron frying pan would work as well. If you don’t have a very heavy pot, use the largest pot you have and fill with water to add weight.

I sure hope this works for you. May be worth the investement of a new cast iron pot. I love mine. It makes the best chili, stews and soups, not to mention I have it in my favourite colour.

Happy baking!