Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Autumn Leaves (Spellbinders September Wax Seal of the Month club)

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This month the Spellbincers club kits celebrate Autumn and Harvest time with all sorts of lovely goodies to use in your crafting. This time I've the first of my Wax Seal of the Month projects to share

As usual I started by making a batch of seals in different styles and colours, I found its a good way to focus the mind on what sort of card or other item I could make.

Here's a few of those I made. I did some simple one just stamping into the wax, and then got brave and made layered seals using different colours of wax. I bought a second furnace so that I could heat two spoons at the same time to make this easier.

This Falling Leaves seal from September's Wax Seal of the Month club comes with the coral mix wax beads

I made this seal first in a bronze-brown shade by mixing different colours until the wax was a suitable shade. I then cut out the oval by leaving the seal in the stamp and using my knife to go around the edge. Often if the wax is still quite soft you can just press the edge wax off with your fingers.

Next I heated a gold mix and when it was ready, I also warmed the empty seal stamper a little. Just stand it on the edge of the furnace then press the cut out oval back into the stamper (it just falls out if you don't warm the metal a bit) Now I poured the gold wax and pressed the stamper into the wax to leave the original seal with a golden rim.

To finish I used a gold pen to highlight the leaves

I used a pale blue piece of card for the vertical panel.

Next I matted a piece of deeper coloured corrugated card on to coppery gold card.

I made a tassel with strands of gold and copper thread and used the special was seal circle stickers to ashere in place before adding to the card itself.

To finish I made a sentiment using 'HELLO' from the Small Die of the Month