Five Xyron Tools for Scrapbookers

Xyron produces several quality office machines. These include laminators, die cut machines, hand held printers, and a variety of accessories for these devices. Many of their tools are ideal for scrapbooking. Here's a look at a few of their products that are excellent for use in scrapbooking and other paper crafting applications.

• Laminators. Xyron makes several of these from small personal use devices up to large wide format machines. They offer both home and professional laminators. But for scrapbooking, a compact personal machine is perfect. Cold lamination means no waiting for your machine to heat up and no hot parts that can burn you or your children.

  • For smaller projects, the Xyron 900 Creative Station Laminator offers a nine inch feed which easily handles letter and legal size items. It can be used to create stickers, magnets, and labels, as well as apply permanent or repositionable adhesive. Items can run through up to half an inch thick. Plus it comes with a removable trimmer for convenient slicing both on and off the laminator.

  • For larger, scrapbook size pages, or for a more versatile device, we highly recommend the Xyron Creatopia. On its own, it's capable of applying both permanent and repositionable adhesive, fabric adhesive, and laminate coating to items as wide as 12 inches. Several kits are available which make it possible to slice and edge materials, add embossing, and make die cuts.

• Sticker Maker. Several smaller devices are available to apply adhesive backing, either repositionable or permanent, to just about any flat object. The Create-A-Sticker line comes in three different models based on width: 150, 250, 500. All three are easy enough for young children to use safely and quickly turn any small object up to five inches wide into a sticker. A slightly larger machine, the Creative Station 510, can make stickers as well as magnets. It also laminates small items up to 4.5 inches wide.

• Design Runner. This hand held printer is not just great for scrapbooking but also paper crafting, card making, and a variety of other applications. This device allows you to print on just about anything. It can easily add text or graphics to paper, photos, fabric, foam, wood, ribbon, tissue paper, and more. It goes where you want it, letting you print on items you can't run through a conventional printer. A variety of discs with letters, numbers, and images are available. You can also create your own by purchasing the Disc Maker kit.

• Wishblade. What scrapbooker wouldn't love a die cut machine? Anyone can tell you that tiny lettering and intricate designs look great on your page but are tedious to cut out and nearly impossible to trim perfectly. With the Wishblade, any image or letter on your computer can be cut out by machine. You'll get precise, consistent cut outs every time. And then you can run them through a sticker maker for the easiest cut and glue process ever.

• Adhesives. Okay, so these may be boring in comparison to the other items on this list but they are necessary in any craft arsenal. Sticky spots, adhesive runners, and mounting tape are three more easy ways to attach photos and embellishments to a page without getting sticky fingers from runny glue.

Xyron supplies have made scrapbookers everywhere satisfied with their high quality design and superior performance. They make excellent additions to any craft room, whether your own or given as a gift. Check them out today!

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