Some crafters know that as well as craft stores, stationers are good to buy from also.  For example, a good stationers will have supplies such as luggage tags, permanent fine liner pens, watercolour pencils, but best of all, the original Omega Dymo Machine.

Although this original embossing text machine by Dymo is ideal for crafting, adding a different medium to your cardmaking or scrapbooking project, there are limitations to what you can actually emboss.  Limitations include dymo tape only coming in three colours, black, red and blue and only being able to emboss in CAPITALS and numbers only.  However, this machine still adds great affects to your projects as shown:

The new kid on the block is Dymo’s fantastic ‘Dymo Caption Maker’.  The Caption Maker has been featured in ads in the American Craft magazines.  Unfortunately this is not available at present in the UK but if you are willing to have one shipped over then I would definitely recommend it.  I purchased mine from ebay along with some different coloured tapes, including pink and green with little feet on (ideal for baby cards) and clear, all of which also cannot be purchased in the UK.  All in, mine cost approximately £40, including postage and around 8 to 10 coloured tapes too.

As you can see it comes in a delightful pink colour, a handy carry bag, but also THREE interchangeable text wheels.

As shown it is easy enough to load your Dymo tape and if you have tape from the Omega machine, this will also still work.

The three interchangeable wheels come in upper and lower case, italics and numbers.  Along with the letters and numbers there are also other little symbols including a heart, star and flower.  The good thing is, that if you want a capital letter at the beginning of a name, for example, you can switch between the upper and lower case wheels.  The same goes for the other wheel also.

Here are some examples of cards I made using the Dymo Caption Maker.

with clear tape

with italics interchangeable wheel

If you would like to let us see some examples you may have using the Dymo Caption Maker or would like to review a different craft item, please send your submissions to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

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