Festive Friday – DT Kingston Crafts – Spring wax seals

You know me – when I get a product to play with, no matter what the original theme, I try and make something Christmassy with it! Well the Spring wax seals kit has got this lovely heart seal and that in my opinion does not need to just be for valentines – I thought it would work well for Christmas too.

In a break from tradition for Festive Friday though I decided to make tags rather than a card – I just was feeling the need to start on tags as we get closer to present buying season.

I started however with the stamping of some wreaths (these are old stamps from SU) and a few flowers and colouring them with my alcohol markers and fussy cutting them out.

Then I grabbed the seal kit and had a play with a few colours of the wax to create four seals with the gorgeous heart shape.

I pulled some of the dark green card from the everyday cardstock pack and cut it into 2” strips and punched the top with a tag topper punch and embossed some leftover green with various embossing folders to give some textural elements – I love sanding back this cardstock when it’s embossed – it really adds an extra element! I then had fun pulling various bits and pieces from the stash to make each one different…

I then started assembling… as I did I ended up messing up the silver seal so I made a different one and decided to jazz that one up a little … I added white posca to the heart and then when that was dry some of the clear glitter glue to make it sparkly white!

I added die cut bows, banners, sentiments and ribbons and stamped sentiments and generally had lots of fun. I added spots of glitter glue to a few too.

They all have a different look because of the colour and the accessories but those wax seals really help finish off the tags. So cute!

Perfect tags for adding to the top of wrapped gifts or a gift bag or even could be used as card toppers.

And such fun to make with all the little elements – I think my favourite is the bronze/brown one with the green glittery stars in the wreath…. Although the rustic looking one with the sparkly white heart on the seal is also fun! How about you?

I was delighted when I got to see these on TV – especially as Martin gave me the title of ‘Queen of Christmas’ – there were squeals of delight when I was watching that was for sure!