 Hello there, it's Sandy Alnock and I'm going to be unboxing two orders of custom wax seal stamps. I ordered both the stamps and some wax from both and I'm not an affiliate for either one just so you know. Stamp to Toot is the first one. It's in Hong Kong and they're a little higher priced primarily because they only do FedEx shipping so you have to add that on to whatever you order. And since I was ordering a custom stamp, I threw in some wax on my order to make it worthwhile and they send you fun emails along the way, all kinds of things telling you where your package is in the shipping which is really fun. I ordered the custom gift wrap because I wanted to see what that experience would be like. I have a couple that's getting married this summer and wanted to send them potentially a monogrammed stamp and I thought I would see what this company was like before ordering it for them. One came in this box and had all kinds of bubble wrap around everything so I removed all that so you don't have to look at it here. I had tried to order a bag of a sample of all of their different wax colors and they didn't have that so they swapped out a few things. This is one of the extras that they gave me when they canceled that item and threw in some other stuff to make up for it. Raleigh paper here in the United States sells their stuff so if you're not ordering a custom stamp you can get the wax and everything from Raleigh and here's one of the ceiling wax sticks that I ordered in Denim and then they sent me instead of having the pebbles in all the different colors they sent me sticks so this is a range of all the different colors which would be really fun to play with and I'm going to test them out and then a jar of the stone wax pebbles that I had ordered and that's the size of it and each one of their pebbles is a different shape than other pebbles or beads people call them my different names they're all basically the same thing everybody has a custom way they deliver their wax but here's another thing that they sent in replacement for the items they didn't have which was this kit and the kit I think would be a really good pairing if you're going to send a monogram stamp to a couple say for a wedding gift get them this along with it and then they can have everything they need to make their very first wax seals so if they're doing their thank you notes this would be a great thing for them to have they get some wax with it they get a candle with it and they get a spoon with it it's a different spoon than I've seen in other companies that have sold me spoons so so there's that just remember any metal spoon is going to get hot on your fingers eventually if you do a whole lot of wax seals at the same time but here is my custom stamp I'm so excited the little card has directions on the back of it for how to do a wax stamp for the stamp itself you have all kinds of customizability you can make the handle different colors you can choose the font you want you can do two letters three letters a whole bunch of different borders they have different sizes lots of different ways you can customize but since I had an order that I needed to pack the day that I was shooting all this other video I thought well let me just shoot that too and I'll do my first test stamping on this one this is a painting that I did in my backyard looking up into my big vine maple tree and it sold on Instagram really quickly very excited by that if you ever see something you're like I have to have that then send me a direct message right away because they're going quickly nowadays which is good so I wrap it in some heavy backer board and then glass scene and then I write out a card usually one of my bigger cards because then I don't have to deal with the postage thing especially if I'm using something fancy like a black envelope like I did here I don't have to worry about the post office not wanting to deliver a black envelope and then I wrap the whole thing in craft and tape it on the back and then leave one opening one slit on one side and then that gets sealed with the wax stamp so let's use their kit that they sent along with this and see how this works I wanted to show you one of the ways that you can use a wax stick and this goes for both the candle types or the glue gun types so whatever kind of stick you have excuse me as long as it's long enough to hold it and you don't burn your fingers you can just hold it in the spoon and depending on the wax it might take a long time to melt this stampitude wax melts faster than any other wax that I have experienced so far which was really nice the other ones a lot of them you just sit there forever which is why I like having my little wax oven thing my little wax stove that I can rest my spoon on and then I can you know go check social media while I'm waiting for it to melt or something but this melted quickly enough it was not like oh my goodness I'm sitting here forever with it you could also cut off chunks of it and throw it in there and just let the wax melt in there on its own without having to hold the wax stick which you'll have to do when you get to the end of the stick anyway and then just check it to see how how much wax is in there is it enough for what you're going to be stamping and then put down the wax generally about the same size or if you want to a little bit bigger than the stamp you're using and you don't have to press down really hard usually the weight of the stamp will press the design into it and then you have your finished seal pretty and then I wrap this whole thing into whatever other kind of packaging is needed depending on the size of the piece does it need a lot more cardboard does it need any bubble wrap etc. Now the rest of the colors I wanted to test out and try but I didn't have a whole lot of stuff to stamp at the time so I just grabbed a scrap of the glassine and started making seals on that and then peeling them off so you can make them ahead of time had several people suggest that I do that just make a whole bunch of them in production style and what I find is that it doesn't feel very natural it doesn't feel like I'm authentically sealing the artwork which is the point of doing this is to make it feel like this is this is your seal of authenticity now the ones that I got in that package have a perfectly round seal because whoever did those knows what they're doing unlike mine you can see how lumpy mine are I can't make like a little perfect circle of adhesive that's going to hold all this down so all my little flappy do's outside of my wax seal would end up not being stuck to the paper so I am going to be pouring each one of mine as I make it which I don't find to be an onerous thing I find it to be very relaxing and it's a way of giving an extra gift to the person who purchases my artwork I want them to feel very special and feel very taken care of when they receive their artwork but all of these I just wanted to test out and see how they worked the wax melts beautifully as I said some of them almost seem to have a little mica in them but they're not shiny they're more on the dull side the artist's air ones these waxes you're going to see are very shiny so you get a real gloss to them this is my second order from artists air I was very pleased with my first order and just as pleased with the second they have nice packaging around theirs as well they send you a little thank you note and then here are the two colors that I ordered there's come in little baggies and different companies will send them in different ways depending on the company itself and how they deliver their wax and then these are my two stamps yes I ordered two stamps because I was very excited when I saw this one it said it was three-dimensional and I wanted to know what the heck is a three-dimensional stamp like do I need more of these and you'll see in a few minutes that maybe I do because it's beautiful so I ordered that one and then here is my custom logo oh my gosh super excited about having this one for business correspondence the one that I got from Stamptitude might be for personal and then this could be for business or I could use both of them I don't know they also send me some extra goodies a little thank you a couple thank you seals and a little sheet with some tips and then I put mine into these jars I bought a set of 24 jars so I can have all of my different wax from all different companies at least the beads into jars that all matched and they all could sit in one place together because I was getting to have a mess around here with tons of bags and little cups and little who knows what with all the different wax so I've been trying to wrangle what the heck to do with it all don't get taken over by wax seal supplies but I stamped a wax seal on top of each one of these jars using the brand new three-dimensional rose and I was so excited it is so beautiful I'll show you a side view of it in a moment that is going to get you all excited too I think I'm gonna need to find more of these three-dimensional wax seals because it just has something extra to it that is gorgeous if you think about those layering stamps where you get different levels of color here you get different levels of wax and you get to see the rose kind of just built up three dimensionally I mean just look at that yumminess that beautiful so that is the artist air colors that I have and then I had to of course go do all the other colors because I'm aware of that way you do not have to swatch your colors just so you know that I just did because it's beautiful and I bought a little shelf over at Goodwill and spray painted it black so I could put all these little jars in one spot together they fit all perfectly and that is my storage for my wax but let's get back to my custom logo stamp I chose to use the lavender color and I think I'm gonna have to try to find somebody who sells the perfect yellow like my logo yellow kind of color I have not found exactly that yet I found other weird yellows and other golds and things and I can kind of get my yellow by mixing colors but I'm hoping to find somebody that sells my perfect color at some point and if I do you know I'm gonna let you know so I stamped this onto the envelope and the wax remember from artist air is much shinier than you'll get from other waxes so if shiny is what you're after this is definitely the company for you the stampitude has beautiful products as well you can get theirs at Raleigh I'm gonna put links to everything in the doobly-doo down below so if you need to go shopping you can but if you don't need to and just come back and visit me for another art video because I'll be doing that next I'll talk to you guys later bye bye