Used the hot glue gun to create the faux wax seal. I folded the red circle in quarters and put it through the crimper to create a Japanese lantern look :-)
Date: Monday, July 17, 2006 GMT Views: 1170
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Registered: June 13, 2005 Location: newly relocated to beautiful Kamloops, BC Posts: 2001
Mon, Jul 24, 2006 @ 8:53 AM
very nice, into my fav's it goes!!!
------------------------------ There is an 18 year gap between my daughter and my son... we wanted to make sure the first turned out, before trying for the second!!!
Registered: July 13, 2004 Location: Purcellville, VA Posts: 329
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 @ 3:14 PM
I've had a couple of questions about the medallion so I thought I'd share my process.
I used a hot glue gun on a hot sheet to make the wax seal. I had to do a few test ones to get the circumference and the thickness just right. I really gooed up (one of those technical terms) the stamp with versamark before inserting it into the hot glue. I discovered that I shouldn't press the stamp too far into the hot glue. After you press the stamp into the hot glue, the weight of the stamp will sink it a little further into the hot glue. My glue gun gets really hot so I found that if I waited a few seconds after dropping the puddle of hot glue before stamping it with the stamp, the stamp doesn't sink in as much. Until I figured this out, my stamp was sinking all the way to the hot sheet and I'd end up with holes in the stamped seal. Then I also discovered that if I left it sitting in the hot glue until it got pretty cool, the stamp comes out so much better.
To get the gold color, I just brushed it with gold Perfect Pearls. I tried Pearl Ex but it needed a fixative so I took a shortcut and used the Perfect Pearls.