How to Make Wax Seals with Pressed Flowers DIY! (2024)

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!

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**

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.

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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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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