In today's video I'm showcasing fun unique and creative ways to use your wax
seal stamps if you're a stationery addict like me you don't want to get
these out of the drawer just once in awhile for the odd letter or invite and
you don't have to because there is tons of different ways you can use these so
let's get started hi guys welcome back my name's Shayda Campbell and on this
channel I do art tutorials like bullet journaling watercolor and hand lettering
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and speaking of bullet journaling last Friday we did our April plan with me so
if you're still getting together your April planner be sure to watch that
tutorial and of course for my patrons over on patreon I so appreciate your
support and right now you can go print the April planner printable that's
available for you and thank you to uniqooo for sponsoring today's video
all of the wax stamps that you're gonna see me use and all the lovely metallic
waxes everything was provided by uniqooo and if you're interested in any of
these products I will be sure to link them in the description below so what I
wanted to do today was to come up with some fun and different ways to use our
wax seal stamps to get a sort of beyond just the wax seal on an envelope and
the first thing that I really wanted to try was something I'd seen online and
that's to put a little dried flower or a fresh flower some sort of little sprig
of greenery into the wax itself you could use dried lavender for this or
herbs I'm using just a tiny little piece of a wax flower fresh from the florist
and I've got my glue gun here with a wax stick in it that's really
convenient when you're doing the wax if the glue gun sticks are really nice you
have a lot of control with them and I just placed my stamp onto the wax as
usual and it completely seals the greenery into that stamp and it just
becomes part of the design although the glue gun sticks are really convenient
you can also do this with the candle sticks and what I do here is when I
start with a candle I light it I let it sort of warm up the wax burn down a bit
of the wick and then once that wick has been shortened a little then I light it
again and this way you won't have such a large
flame that sort of drips and as a little bit out of control and I've even had it
where the wax started on fire because the flame was just so large so cut the
wicks down or burn it down a little before you get started if you are using
the candle wax sticks I just find that's a good tip and here you can just see me
sort of slowly and meditatively dropping the wax over the the plant right at the
tip of the envelope there and I'm just keeping the flame very very close to the
wax so that it doesn't harden and there's no section of it that sort of
hardens then I'm gonna place my cute little crown stamp onto the leaf and
again it's completely embossed and the plant is sort of captured there this is
perfect for a birthday card or greeting something you're giving to a friend
maybe not something you're putting in the mail but definitely something you're
putting on a gift so there's a couple of them that I did there and I just thought
I'll try one more I wanted to do something with even a little flower on
it so I've grabbed some of my purple wax flowers I'm just using a little bit of
pink wax and the same idea just get your stamp make sure it's facing the right
direction and press down firmly into the wax it's almost like you're pretending
that the leaf isn't even there you don't really have to worry about it and just
sort of go as usual the next thing that I want to try is adding my wax seals to
some gifts and so I'm sort of making this part of my gift wrapping and I'll
just place one right in the center of these two gifts I've wrapped a little
bit of twine around as you can see and then you're just going to put a nice big
dollop of wax in the center of the twine it's going to sort of seep out in a
funny directions and in sort of all over the place because of the twine but wait
until I take the stamp off lift it off here you're gonna see it just gives this
really cool look it's very unlikely that you're gonna get a perfect circle when
you're going on top of that twine but you're gonna get something so much
cooler and the wax sort of pools out in all directions for the next one I'm
going to use this pretty be stamped from uniqooo
and I'm just again using my glue gun so I have a lot of control with the glue
gun I'm able to sort of like aim the wax and work quite quickly especially as
compared to the wax candle sticks and I'm placing a flower and this one just
putting a little more wax on top there I sort of decided to add the flower at the
last minute I'm using this gorgeous metallic wax I've got some Gold's
bronzes coppers this is sort of the bronzy color that i absolutely love and
those are all from uniqooo and as I said I'll link them in the description
if you're interested in the glue gun sticks but that's what that looked like
when it turned out I mean this would be so perfect for a small gift that you're
giving a friend for her birthday or something it's just a really elegant and
special way to package a gift and it's really not difficult especially with the
glue gun sticks now for this one I had this idea to sort of do a little bag and
yeah this would be perfect for a small gift that you've just packaged in this
tiny paper bag I've just sort of trying to even the bag out by placing it on
this little glue bottle that I had handy in the studio and then I'm placing the
wax there on top of the string trying not to burn my finger trying not to let
too much wax run down into the bag which it didn't it was fine and just firmly
placing the stamp that one's a little finicky and you can see the stamp it
didn't turn out perfectly but I still got the beautiful Laurel design and I
was quite happy with it another idea is to use these cute little guys for
decorating your your bullet journal or your planner so almost using them like
stickers you can actually create them ahead of time by pouring them or making
them on parchment or a silicone baking sheet and then all you have to do is
take them off your silicone baking sheet put a little piece of double-sided tape
or double-sided of an adhesive and you can just pop them in your journal by
thinking a little bit outside the box and adding some twine or ribbon or herbs
and flowers to these wax seals you can create design elements that are gorgeous
and thoughtful and so lovely and they become perfect for gift wrapping for
wedding invitations for menus even for product
packaging there's so many fun uses for these wax
seals and I hope you'll start thinking about them a little more creatively as I
have because you're definitely going to be seeing them in my bullet journal
thank you again to uniqooo for sponsoring today's video as I said all
the products are listed in the video description below
and be sure to head over to my Instagram at shada Campbell because there's a
little giveaway from uniqooo so if you'd like to win some of these wax
seals for yourself definitely follow me on Instagram and
look for the giveaway photo I will see you next week with a new tutorial thank
you so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe