I recently purchased a large wax seal tool with a mushroom design. Because I couldn't wait to try it out I immediately started to melt some wax pellets with my hot air gun (done on a silicon mat). Although the hot air gun blows the pellets around a bit, little pools of melted wax can be formed. I pressed the wax seal tool into the puddles of wax and after the wax hardened and cooled, pretty, shiny ovals resulted. (You can still purchase wax sealing candles to make the melted wax puddles, but I don't like using fire in my craft area.)
I glued these wax 'jewels' and ribbons to the top of calendars. The calendar bases were made from 4"x12" printed card stock folded into stand up forms that can be flattened to fit into an envelope. I admit that I'm a wax seal junkie so I am very happy that HM Ben Franklin Crafts sells both the wax pellets and the handled metal sealing tools. If your pressed seals don't look quite right you can always remelt the wax or even trim it into a more pleasing shape before remelting the edges. Using wax seals is a very old fashion stationery decoration, but it is really fun to create and collect all the different metal sealing tools. I hope you'll give making wax seals a try but be warned, "It's addictive!"
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