Hey guys in today's tutorial we're going to be working with wax seals and stamps
again I'm gonna be showing you how you can actually create those beautiful wax
seals in bulk ahead of time so that when it comes to sticking them on your
invites for a wedding or a bridal shower you can do all 100 or 250 of your
invites worry about the calligraphy and getting everything perfect and then all
you have to do is take your wax seal and stick it on to the envelope we're gonna
be working with beautiful products from a lovely little company called
Stampitude. I can't wait to show you their stuff so let's get started
Hey guys my name's Shayda and on this channel I do art tutorials like hand
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the end of today's tutorial because we have a beautiful little giveaway thanks
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that so let's get down to business the thing that we really want to achieve
today is just creating a lot of these wax seals in bulk so that we can stick
them on our invites afterwards and easily now I'm using glue gun wax here
and as you can see it says for a half-inch glue gun so it fits right in
any glue gun and what I'm gonna start by doing here is just putting the wax in
letting the glue gun heat up and then we're going to prepare our workspace and
we need a bowl of ice you just could use ice in the tray I've got a little ice in
a bowl here whatever you need some ice and then we've got a silicone baking
sheet on a baking tray we've also have our wax stamp and a cloth a just a tea
towel so that's it for supplies now to begin the process you're going to keep
that stamp in the ice for 20-30 seconds till it's nice and cold use the tea
towel to get rid of any moisture and then you're ready to get started so now
you've got a dry cold stamp your glue gun is hot and what you're gonna do is
you're going to put out the wax for a couple seals I would say if you're new
to this just do two or three to start I found that the right amount of wax for
each seal was about one full trigger squeeze plus a little bit more and so
I squeezed out three puddles and then I've got my cold stamp and I'm
just placing it gently into the wax it lifts out nice and easily because of
that time spent in the ice because it's so cold
and you can see here these are my first ones so the first one was a little off
but I'm getting better each time I do it so let's go again here we're going to
place our wax seal stamp in the ice again leave it
there I'm not showing it on camera but leave it there for 20 30 seconds make
sure it's nice and cooled this is a very meditative process there's no rush so
get that stamped nice and cold make sure there's no water on it you don't want
any moisture on there and then set it aside for a moment it's not going to
warm up to room temperature so quickly and then you're gonna squeeze out the
puddles of wax here you don't have to put the glue gun in a circular motion or
anything of course if you think about it a circle will form naturally just from
the trigger squeeze and the *wax will pool beautifully there and then you just
place your stamp down gently but firmly into the wax and it should lift out
easily especially if it's nice and cold sometimes it might stick a little and
you can just wiggle it I've just got so much footage of me placing the seal
placing the stamp in the wax to form the seal and I'm gonna include all of it in
this video maybe I'll turn my channel into a satisfaction channel or something
like that but it's just so satisfying to watch that stamp go into the wax and
then boom you have this beautiful seal and you can see there I just hit it with
my finger they dry very quickly and they don't stick to your silicone baking
mat at all so they're easy to lift off when you're all done now you could do
this on a piece of parchment so that's important to keep in mind but I did find
the silicone baking sheet they just lifted off so much easier I tried it on
parchment and they would sometimes stick a little bit so if you can get your
hands on a silicone baking tray it makes this process really easy and of course
as you get more proficient you can start to you know do four or
five little pools of wax from the glue gun maybe even six seven eight I found I was
I was pushing it at four or five but even if you're just doing three at a
time the process goes really quickly and in no time you have a huge amount of
these beautiful wax seals they come off the silicone
baking mat easy-peasy and in no time you have an invite that is beautiful on both
sides and right now I'm going to show you how we get them to affix to our
envelopes our invitations so what we're gonna do is we're going to put a sticky
a double-sided sticky product on the back of each seal now I've got some
little double-sided sticky rounds here but what you can do is you can purchase
a sheet of a4 size so eight by eleven double-sided sticky paper and you can
punch out circle shapes or you can simply cut out circle shapes or diamonds
you're never gonna see them so I'll link some double sided sticky sheets in the
video description and that's all there is to it you're gonna put the sticky
tack on the back affix them to the envelopes they just need a little
pressure with your finger and you've got these gorgeous invites and you don't
have to worry about melting each wax seal on to each envelope so that's how
you produce your bulk seals and do say a hundred wedding invites but for anyone
that's new to wax seal stamps I wanted to show some of the more slow down
methods and this one's a lot of fun especially if you're just doing this
because you're a stationery addict or because you're sending one or two
letters so here what I'm doing is I've taken the wax sticks that you can see in
the top left corner there and you just cut off a piece so you can just use a
cutting board and a serrated knife you cut off a little cube and you melt it in
your little melting bowl over the light and heat of a small tea light once the
wax is completely melted and you don't have any chunks in there you just
carefully pour it onto your sealed envelope right at the point right at the
tip of the envelope there try your best to just pour in a steady motion so that
the wax goes in...puddles into a circle and then you just take the stamp again
it's always a good idea to have it nice and cool cooled from the ice and you're
just gonna place it into the puddle of wax and I'm just lifting it out there
and you know mine wasn't perfect but it still looks beautiful and you get the
beautiful design these are definitely more of a process if you do it that way
maybe not everyone's gonna turn out perfect that's kind of the beauty
another alternative here would be to melt it in the little bowl over the tea
light but then to still pour it pour them on to a silicone baking mat that
way if you do have one that's not as good you can just remelt it or discard
it so that's another option use the melting bowl pour onto the silicone tray
and then use that to double-sided sticky paper to again finish your envelopes and
make your beautiful invites stamp attune makes these wax seal stamps in all sorts
of different designs I'm gonna link their website below and I just think
these make the most gorgeous invitations for a bridal shower a wedding just a
party an afternoon tea um if you're a stationery addict like me you're gonna
fall in love with the process of creating these wax seals now today's
video is not sponsored by Stampitude but they did send me the product and I
just fell in love with all their gorgeous designs and the pretty sort of
Art Deco packaging and of course the video would not be complete without a
giveaway so today if you enter the giveaway there's a link in the
description you'll have a chance to win this cute little stamping set that
includes this nautical designed wax seal stamp and then this melting kit which is
complete with the tea light another stick of wax and the melting spoon so
you've got everything you need to get started and fall in love with these
beautiful stationery products
so thank you to Stampitude for today's beautiful little giveaway be sure to
check the description below this video to find the giveaway link so you click
that giveaway link and there's lots of different ways that you can enter the
giveaway so we hope that it's really fair for everybody make sure to enter
soon because the giveaway is only open for the next week you have until
February 19th at noon Eastern Standard Time to enter good luck and thank you
for watching today I hope you enjoyed seeing another tutorial on wax seals I
am completely in love with all these products and the process of creating the
seals has become something that I go back to again and again and yeah I'm
just gonna start filming satisfaction videos showing that stamp going into the
wax because it's so good am i right please hit that subscribe button if you
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