ShapeBoss Review

Using Fiskars ShapeBoss - The Ultimate Embossing System

As soon as I had enough profit from my first dry embossing attempts, I splurged on the Fiskars Shapeboss dry embossing system.

I would wager every crafter knows Fiskars' products.

From shape cutters and systems to any kind of scissors imaginable, Fiskars always delivers innovative high quality products at reasonable prices. I love this company!

Now Fiskars has come up with the Shapeboss - The Ultimate Embossing System. It truly is the ultimate dry embossing tool.

The Shapeboss makes dry embossing much easier and also can be used for "wet" embossing, stenciling with paint, ink, chalk, etc. and even cutting shapes. As I said earlier, when I had made enough profit on my embossed products, I had to have the ShapeBoss.

[ Business tip: I always look at each product line independently. It must be profitable on its own. This keeps me from investing in expensive limited use equipment that may never have a payback. ]

The Fiskars ShapeBoss is a box with positioning pegs, a stylus and a dry embossing stencil set. A light box is no longer needed.

Metal, card stock or vellum (virtually any material that you can make a dent in with a stylus) is placed between the dry embossing stencil plates. The purpose of the top stencil is to give you a pattern to follow with your stylus. The purpose of the bottom stencil is to allow the stylus to push the material down into the patterns, which stretches the material permanently, creating the raised embossed image.

Because the stencils and material are firmly held in place you can produce a sharper, better image. Most importantly, you don't need x-ray vision to see your stencil's outline!

When I used my old system to stencil through heavy paper into the dry embossing stencil plate below, I had trouble keeping my stylus from slipping out of line. No more! The ShapeBoss is simply revolutionary.

In addition to the ShapeBoss box itself, you can buy different dry embossing stencil sets, allowing thousands of different designs to be produced.

The ShapeBoss can also be used with Fiskars Shapecutter to create cutouts of your choice.

Fiskars also makes the ScrapBoss which is basically the same as the Shapeboss, but accommodates 12 x 12 inch pages, for scrapbooking and other needs.

Dry-embossing is now accessible to everyone - from kids to adults with disabilities. Your imagination is your only limitation.

Embossed designs add a special elegance to scrapbook pages, collages, note cards, wedding invitations, menu cards, holiday cards and ornaments. There's just no end to what you can create and what an impression (pun intended) you can make!