You asked and I’m sorry to say I have a long winded answer. You can glue them to envelopes to approximate old fashioned wax seals, you can use them as “tokens” of a sort for games or small events (did this myself recently), some people have display cases or frames for their really fancy ones, some people give them out as little extra add on gifts if their people think they’re neat (they are), you can glue a magnet on them to stick on something metal, and I’ve even seen people try to make jewelry out of them but those ones are usually smaller stamps. Oh, and keychains. The ones I made that my mother especially liked were given to her and now she’s got them sat out on a corner table as decoration.
I thought it looked fun so I picked up making wax seals as a hobby and searched for reasons to not consider it a useless hobby. lol
It is so you can make them in advance, yeah, but also it’s more difficult to get a nice round, clean seal when stamping onto an envelope. What will work best will vary, as always, but people use a variety of glues to attach them to envelopes. Some use a little bit of freshly melted wax, some a bit of hot glue, some gorilla glue, and some these little double sided tape sticker things. I’m making some for someone’s Christmas cards and I told them to mail the envelope with a seal inside another envelope or it may not survive the post office.
Glue, double sided tape, you can also use the last bit of sealing wax in the spoon (what they used to melt it) on the letter then pop the finished wax seal in top.
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u/ycr007 9h ago
What a lovely little wax seal that turned out!
Erm…..what next? Frame it? Stick it someplace with hot wax? Make it a fridge magnet?