Make a Glitter Wax Seal

 

 Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

I love the Spellbinders clubs for October!

I've barely started making my Christmas cards and I'm sure these sets are going to get me motivated.  It's good to find something I can use to make a lot of cards quickly and I think this month's gorgeous Glimmer of the Month club with it's starry background plate and 4 really usable sentiments will help no end! It really doesn't need much more added to make a super-stylish card - you can even hot-foil directly onto your card blank then just add one of the sentiments and  it will look great! Though of course it's always hard to just stop there!

 

The Wax Seal of the Month club has something really special this time - the Wax Seal itself is cool with a lovely scripty  'Merry & Bright' message, but this month there's a little tub of Silver Bullion powder and an applicator which I've really enjoyed working with.  It goes onto the wax easily and it really shines - I'm just sorry that the shine doesn't show up on the photos so well - you'll just have to take my word for it!

As ever I set aside an hour or two to just experiment with the seal, different colours and different techniques.  This time I also hunted out other things I might be able to add - so there's glitter, tiny beads and mini sequins included on the picture.  

There's even one I made upside down...😁😁

 

I used the first seal on the bottom row for this card.

To make it I poured quite a large squarish blob of wax (any colour will do - you can use those weird leftover bits of wax!) onto my silicone mat  and immediately covered it with purple glitter.  I put a scrap of wax paper over it and gently pressed the glitter over the wax to make sure it got plenty of coverage.

Next I heated and poured white wax on top of the wax 'blob' and this time stamped the 'Merry & Bright' Seal into it, making sure it was adhered to the base layer.

I used the Silver Bullion powder to highlight the letters 

  

As the glittery layer is purple I went with a rich purply-blue colour for the card blank and hot-foiled layer and some lovely Lavender foil from a past club kit.

I criss-crossed some silvery baker's twine around the foiled panel before adding to the front of the card, then added the wax seal on top. 

With hindsight, and probably more bravery, I could have made the card, added the twine, then poured the wax directly into the centre of the card

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

October Wax Seal of the Month

includes Silver Bullion powder 

White Wax beads

 

October Glimmer of the Month club

  kit includes Polished Brass foil, but I used Lavendar

 

 Sticky Circles for Wax Seals

 Other

 

Purple card blank plus extra for hot-foiling

re-melted leftover wax 

Silver baker's twine 

 

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 Kathy xx