How to Make Wax Seals with Pressed Flowers DIY!

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How to Make Wax Seals with Pressed Flowers DIY!

Transform a boring envelope, a wedding invitation or a deckle edge handmade envelope into a message adorned for a king by adding a wax seal with pressed flowers.

Wax seals are elegant and so much fun to use...melting the wax, pressing the stamp...it's incredibly cool.

Add a pressed flower or four leaf clover from your yard for even more snail-mail-letter specialness!

Pressed flowers are beautiful and fun to work with. Press a bunch of flowers and then craft with them in a variety of ways. (Here's 20 pressed flower crafts)

You can press flowers from your yard, the botanical gardens or from a park while on vacation in a book and then swap them to a wooden flower press when you are back home.

This press can handle large fresh flowers and a variety of thickness of the flowers.

Floral preservation has never been easier! I really love the design and easy of the straps on this press, rather than the screwing of wingnuts and clamps.

This brilliant flower press from Ditsy Flowers is easy to use and doesn't require rubber bands or wing nuts.

Pressed flowers are beautiful and fun to work with. Press a bunch of flowers and then craft with them in a variety of ways. (Here's 20 pressed flower crafts) You can press flowers from your yard, the botanical gardens or from a park while on vacation in a book and then swap them to a wooden flower press when you are back home. This press can handle large fresh flowers and a variety of thickness of the flowers. Floral preservation has never been easier! I really love the design and easy of the straps on this press, rather than the screwing of wingnuts and clamps. This brilliant flower press from Ditsy Flowers is easy to use and doesn't require rubber bands or wing nuts.

Supplies Needed for Wax Seals with Pressed Flowers:

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Blank Wax Seal
Wax Melts Variety or
Wax Sticks and Glue Gun
Pressed Flowers (DIY your own flowers with this post)

Step 1: Write a Letter

Fill an envelope with a handwritten note, your custom invitation design, greeting cards, wedding invitations, baby shower invitations, original artwork, personalized stationery, bridal shower invitations, customizable holidays or any snail mail that deserves to be a little bit extra.

Adding a wax seal to an envelope gives it a beautiful and personal touch.

Step 1: Write a Letter Fill an envelope with a handwritten note, your custom invitation design, greeting cards, wedding invitations, baby shower invitations, original artwork, personalized stationery, bridal shower invitations, customizable holidays or any snail mail that deserves to be a little bit extra. Adding a wax seal to an envelope gives it a beautiful and personal touch.

Step 2: Melting Wax

Place some wax pellets in the wax melting spoon.

You will need about 5-6 pellets for each of the flower wax seals...it doesn't have to be the highest quality wax, I've had no issues with the cheap stuff.

**Do not use crayons instead of wax pellets, they are flammable**

Step 2: Melting Wax Place some wax pellets in the wax melting spoon. You will need about 5-6 pellets for each of the flower wax seals...it doesn't have to be the highest quality wax, I've had no issues with the cheap stuff. **Do not use crayons instead of wax pellets, they are flammable**

Hold the wax seal spoon over a candle flame and let the wax melt.

Picking your favorite wax color is fun--that's why I like the variety pack of colors; maybe you want a little mint or a white wax seal to match your wedding theme colors.

Step 3: Wax Pouring and Sealing

Let the wax in the spoon cool a little bit so it doesn't boil the flower.

Then pour the wax out on the envelope back, where the flap would be licked closed.

Then place the pressed flower, leaves, greenery, or in my case, four leaf clover, on the melted wax puddle.

Then place the wax seals - without any pattern on the metal piece on top of the flowers.

The blank seal is perfect for pressed flowers.

Let the wax cool and then remove the wax stamp from the envelope, revealing the perfectly showcased pressed flower embedded in the wax.

You can press wax seals on a silicone mat and use adhesive backing or an adhesive sticker on the back to stick them to envelopes and other stationery gifts.

(Custom wax seals are available online if you want a custom design for your special event.)

Let the wax cool and then remove the wax stamp from the envelope, revealing the perfectly showcased pressed flower embedded in the wax. You can press wax seals on a silicone mat and use adhesive backing or an adhesive sticker on the back to stick them to envelopes and other stationery gifts. (Custom wax seals are available online if you want a custom design for your special event.)

That's it!

Hope these wax seal design envelopes with pressed flowers give you the confidence to do your own custom wax seals for your next formal event.

Wax seals with pressed flowers are a match made in heaven!

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Learn how to make wax seal design envelopes with pressed flowers give you the confidence to do your own custom wax seals for your next formal event. Wax seals with pressed flowers are a match made in heaven!

You can mail wax seals through the USPS post office easily to anywhere in the United States.

Some may require extra postage for weight and to be hand cancelled, rather than rolling them through sorting machines.

Check with your local post office for details and regulations for shipping internationally to places like: French Guiana, United Arab Emirates, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, New Caledonia, British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, French Polynesia, Cayman Islands, San Marino, Vatican City, Ascension Island, Dominican Republic, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, South Africa, South Korea, Palestinian Territories, Falkland Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Solomon Islands, Faroe Islands, St. Lucia, Christmas Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, and Saudi Arabia...to name a few fun places to send mail!

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How to Press Flowers (20 Ways to Use a Pressed Flower)

Learn how to press flowers with a simple wooden flower press from Ditsy Flowers.

Plus three fun tutorials on what to do with the finished pressed flowers and making them into flower art!

Pressing flowers is a great way to preserve a dainty and fragile part of nature and make it last forever...or very nearly.

Pressing flowers is an easy way to preserve the best flowers and use them for an art form like handmade cards, bookmarks, wax seals, a special event and other fun crafts. I love being able to press the first of the blooms of the season and treasure them always. After I clipped these clovers and crocus flowers, it completely snowed--so glad I have this springtime collection of pressed flowers to enjoy! I was super glad I had saved a few of them in a beautiful way!

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