Wax Seals Gift Wrap. Video

Hello crafters! Today I’m wrapping gifts using wax seals. This is not something I typically share, but I have been so fascinated with wax seals and gift wrap, I just had to do a video and share it with you.

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If you have been with me for some time, you might remember some of my videos from last Fall where I shared the Spellbinders Wax Seals on cards. I have a Spellbinders Wax Seals Starter Kit Unboxing video and some tutorials: Monochromatic Color Scheme Cards + Wax Seals and Top 10 Wax Seals Tips. Wax Seals have been around for ages, and I am so happy to see Spellbinders bring them into the cardmaking world and make them more accessible and easy to use for us, cardmakers.

VIDEO TUTORIAL

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DETAILS

As much as I love to use wax seals on cards, I have been using them a lot to decorate my wrapped gifts. I prefer kraft wrapping the most when I’m using wax seals. This type of wrap seems to go better with the wax seal concept. If you want to do something else, I think using solid color wrapping paper would work best, try to avoid busy patterns as they would distract from the wax seal.

Next, I like to add dried flowers. You can purchase dried flowers from a local gift shop (I buy some from Afloral), or make your own dried flowers by picking flowers in the wild and drying them.

I have selected 3 different flowers, in different colors and added some Baby’s Breath. I added a piece of yellow tape to temporarily secure the flowers in place. I made sure the piece of tape was small and will be hidden under my wax seal. I will not be removing this tape, it will sit there holding the flowers and I’ll pour wax over it. You can hold the flowers with your fingers, but I find with these dried flowers, because they aren’t flat like die cuts, they move around quite a lot and if I don’t tack them down, they might move and position in an odd way, so it is just better to tack them before putting the wax on top. I also tied twine around the gift.

I melted 5 wax beads in my Bead Warmer and poured wax carefully over my gift. I decided to go with green wax for this gift, this is from Spellbinders in the color Green. It is a very beautiful, very sophisticated green, it has a bit of pearlescent shine to it. Very pretty. With the wax poured I used my seal stamp and I pressed it into the hot wax. I do actually press it down, this is not a flat surface, we have dimensional items here, so you do need to apply some pressure to have a good impression. I press it down and hold it down for a few seconds. I then wait for another minute or so, to let the wax cool before I remove the stamp.

Sometimes I don’t get good results, the stamp might not stamp perfectly, or I might not have enough wax there, so I just re-pour another layer of the same color wax on top.

One final step is to add a highlight. I used a DecoColor pen from Mary Uchida for this – it is perfect as it has a little chisel nib to add color to the raised sections of the seal.

I hope you like it! Would you ever try to wrap your gifts like this? Or would you like to receive a gift with this type of wrapping? Let me know!

SUPPLIES

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Spellbinders Wax Seal Starter Kit Shop at: SSS | SC | SB USA | SB UK | AMZ	Spellbinders Green Wax Beads Shop at: SSS | SC | SB USA | SB UK	Decocolor Premium Gold Metallic Marker Shop at: SSS | SC | SB USA | SB UK	Spellbinders 1/8″ White Liner Tape Shop at: SB USA
Spellbinders Best Ever Craft Tape 0.25″ Shop at: SSS | SC | SB USA