Hand-drawn template into computer template

Again, I'm new at this and Really Appreciate help.

I have designed a toy that has a simple rectangle for the body -- that was easy -- Yeah!!

But, the arms and other parts I had to hand draw to get what I really wanted. Originally, I created the body template in Word. Then I just made some rectangles, filled them with color, printed them, drew my pattern on top of them and cut them out.

So my question is this: How do I turn my hand drawn pattern part into a template, like the templates I have downloaded from you guys, that I can work with when creating new skins, etc.? It has some curves -- which also adds to my dilema.

I look forward to sharing this toy because I like her alot. Thanks so much for your time in helping me out!
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    Anna Blume & Henk Engst

    I use The Gimp which you can freely download. And there are soöe excellent manuals available, n different languages. It does the job, but I´m pretty sure there are better ways. Although I´m slowly getting efficient at it I still have no results I want to share :)

    Looking forward to the answers of the pro´s here as well.
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      Tephlon

      Check out this thread for loads of free software you can use to make your templates:
      http://www.nicepapertoys.com/forum/topics/1905839:Topic:5161
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