 Hello my crafty friends and welcome to another card making video, today I am going to play with wax seals and although these are meant to be used where you close the envelope for a lovely touch, they are also great to be used as main focal points or elements on your card front. You can find a big variety of colors of waxes that you can use, I have 4 of the colors here, these are by Altenew and you can find them as beads like the ones that I have here in a jar which are very convenient to use. You can see here you just add 4 or 5 of those in a spoon and you just melt them. And the other way is to get those sticks like candle sticks, these also come in a variety of colors but I am not a big fan of them, you have to hold them and wait for droplets of wax to start falling. Although this process is more authentic, it takes a lot of time and I am not a big fan of it. You will also find lots of designs to use for your seals including images and words and I got this handy little stand so I can have my tea light underneath so you don't have to hold the spoon until the wax melts, I like to keep everything inside one of those tins by Tim Holtz and today I am going to share 3 different cards using mainly dyes from the latest stand alone dye release by Altenew and share different ideas on how I like to use the waxes on my card front. So here I used this lovely dye, this is the Moroccan cover up dye and I did cut it out from white card stock. It's one of those beautiful backgrounds that you can use again and again on your cards. I'm going to lay it completely flat today on my card but I can think of so many ways to create shaker cards with this one. I'm also complying flowers from this dye set, this is the craft flower buttercup and I'm going to cut out everything that I need out of the gradient card stock. I will use these three colors for the flowers and two of the green ones so just by following the instructions on the front of the packaging I did cut out everything and now I'm going to put them together before sticking everything down I did a little bit of thinking just to give some more dimensions and some extra something on my flower. As today I'm mainly focusing on the waxes I didn't share how I put the flower together but really it is just dye cutting with different colors of card stock and then you just follow the instructions of the packaging to put everything together. So I created a big flower, a couple of buds and I also cut out lots of leaves. For my sentiment I went with one that is included in the sensual sentiment strip dye set. This is definitely one of my favorites, I keep on using sentiments from this set again and again so in this case I went with the one that says you are so kind. I cut it out from a black cardstock and then at the back I'm just adding a scrap piece of white cardstock so that the walls are readable. Now I'm going to light the candle and I was debating whether I want to use the red or the golden one. I decided to go with the golden one and I'm taking a look at the seals that I have I decided to go with the one that has an envelope on top perfect for any card. I'm going to add in the spoon four or five of these beads these are enough and I'm going to leave that spoon there until it melts. Now you can create your composition and pour that wax directly on top but I know that most of us are too afraid to do that since we can ruin a work that we have done up to now so what I like to do is to drop that wax on top of my glass mat. You can do that also on a non-stick craft mat or even on a silicone mat. Also now is a great time to wipe your spoon clean and now my seal is ready so let's see what we have here. Always remember that if you don't like the seal or if you made a mess with it just put it back in the spoon it's going to melt again and you don't have to waste any product. And now you can easily use glue at the back and stick it on your project. So for my project now I'm cutting a four and a quarter by five and a half vanilla cardstock this has a lovely shine on it and I'm going to stick my design on top of it. I'm not adding dimension I'm just going with glue at the back and I'm going to stick it completely flat if you want to have some shadows or dimension the easiest way is to cut it out three or four times so you can stack one on top of the other to create dimension. This design is so intricate that it is almost impossible to fight with tiny little foam tape for the back. Then I placed down the sentiment and arranged everything all around the sentiment. For the seal I did went with a piece of foam tape at the back. I like how the color of the seal matches with the center of my flower so everything comes together nicely and I love how I have a seal on the front of my card which isn't something common I think it makes the card extra special. So here is an idea of how we can incorporate a seal as an element of a cluster card and you can see some close-up photos of this card here. For my second card I'm going to use another cover die from the latest release this is the picking leaves cover die it's absolutely stunning perfect for creating clean and simple cards. For this card I'm going for a very easy design that you can easily mass produce and all I'm going to do is to combine the cover die which I'm going to cut it out from gold cardstock and the dark background and I find it is very elegant when you combine gold on top of dark green or silver on top of navy blue. Now this is a very intricate design if you're using thick cardstock make sure to use your metal sheen and if something doesn't pop up don't worry about it you can consider it as a design element. So all I'm doing here is inking up the edges of my background to make them even darker this is going to make as if the center is highlighted and then to add an extra touch I'm going to use one of my gold metal watercolors these are from Altenew I'm going to pick the one of the gold ones that are available as much as the gold of my cover panel and I'm not going to add too many just a few will do the trick this is going to add some shine and interest on my background and it is another wise very simple card however it has lots of sparkle and it's really striking to stick down the panel I'm using my burly art glue it is super fine in the tip and it is really helpful plus when some glue oozes out which is going to happen here you probably will see that it's not a big problem this is not going to be shiny when it dries and of course going to dry matte and completely clear this time again I went with my golden beads and on top I'm going to add a sear that has a lovely flower on it leave it on top for a few seconds until the wax becomes solid again then you can peel it off and stick it on your project of course if you are brave enough you can directly pour that wax on your project which is something that I'm going to do for the next card clean and simple very easy to must produce and I think it is really striking and of course all I have to do now is to stick this panel on top of a standard card that's four and a quarter by five and a half actually I love how the design on the flower matches the design of the leaves with all those lines that was accidental but it's those little things that make me happy and let's move on to the third card for today this time I'm using leaves from this lovely die set this is called tropical leaf mixed die set I absolutely love the completely unique designs of these leaves I'm going to choose three of them and cut them out from blue cardstock white cardstock and silver glitter cardstock this time I'm going with blue beads for my wax and I'm going to create a composition and I will be braving this card I'm going to pull the wax directly on top of my elements so I'm just going to temporarily adhere one on top of the other to create the composition so I know exactly where I am supposed to pull the wax I'm adding glue only at the bottom of my leaves and I make sure that I have quite of a dimension and movement at the top of them my background panel is a light gray cardstock since I have a white leaf I didn't want to have a white background just to help it pop a little bit more this time I will use a seal that is going to act as a sentiment at the same time and I have a dot here with a marker so I know where is the top of my word and of course of all the times that my camera could stop filming it was the exact time that I wanted to place the seal on top of my wax but in any case everything went just smoothly I didn't make a mess everything went just fine I'm waiting for the wax to cool down and then we can see what I've done you will notice that the word hello is slightly crooked but I think this is the beauty of creating a seal directly on top of your project the fun part is that the cr in this case works as an adhesive at the same time keeping all the elements in place I'm just going to stick this on top of a standard card that's four and a quarter by five and a half using some foam tape at the back and I'm going to finish it off by adding some silver gems in this design I could have imposed the gray panel for my card just to add something extra on the background however I like the simplicity of this card but here is an option for you in case you want to case it and these were the cards for today I hope that you had fun that you got inspired don't forget to leave me a comment to like the video and also subscribe if you haven't done so already also this is part of the blog group where we celebrate the latest release by Altenew so make sure to visit my blog you will find there all the info that you need on how you can enter the giveaways also down below the description area you will find links to everything I used thank you all so much for spending some time and I hope you'll have a lovely day