We ship all of our acrylic items with the protective backing on to keep your product protected during shipment. This also gives you the option to customize your product in any color you desire. Just peel the backing off with your fingernail or toothpick, no need to worry as it won't scratch the acrylic! (Please note that we pre-peel our tokens, our templates come completely covered with their protective backings)

Generally, your fingernails should do the trick... but if you are having trouble take a toothpick or tweezers and peel away. If you are still having trouble try soaking the tokens in water to soften the backing, and then peel. No need to worry about scratching your acrylic, just don't use anything metal!

We ship all of our templates with their masking tape on so that you can paint them easily with minimal clean up. We recommenced using oil based or acrylic based paints. Just peel the backing away afterwards. If any clean up is needed you can use a toothpick to scratch the excess paint off.