New and different from Paper Adventures are the L'il Boss Embossers that will emboss paper or the new metallic foils from Amaco with different designs. Currently available are hearts, diamonds, circles and the wave. I'm convinced that by the next HIA the embossers will not only be available in more patterns but in larger sizes as well. The new metallic foils from Amaco incidentally come in beautiful new colors . . . They seem to be a bit lighter in weight than the copper, gold, aluminum and pewter that Amaco introduced last year and wrinkle even easier, but for covering box tops, books, etc., they can be very dramatic.
Paper punches continue to grow in popularity.
It seems as though it wasn't so very long ago that we were content with our little hand punches that punched circles in paper so we could put pages in our notebooks. Then came the little punches that punched many shapes, then long-handled punches. The latest batch, however, seems to be punching smaller images again but there are more of them. From both Paper Adventures and Hy-Glo American Pin come punches with six different images placed on a wheel. In fact, Paper Adventures went even one step further.