How to Make Your Own Wedding Stationery | Embossed Place Settings | Faux Wax Seal Place Cards
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If you’re thinking about DIY-ing parts of your wedding, chances are you’re already a bit crafty and might have a stash of crafting supplies you can dig through for your wedding projects. This was the case for the Embossed Place Setting DIY. I wanted a take on a wax seal since we’ve seen a lot of wax seals on wedding stationery recently, but don’t own a wax seal kit. I thought there must be something I could use to give a similar effect so raided my craft supplies! Our faux wax seal place cards use embossing powder, heat and rubber stamps to create a similar effect.
If you haven’t used embossing powder before, it’s a powder that when heated, melts to produce a raised pattern/design. It’s usually used with rubber stamps with intricate designs but we’re using it a bit differently. The powders come in so many different colours, there’s sure to be something to match your colour scheme.
For this DIY you will need:
- Pre cut place cards or sheets of card to make your own (standard place cards are 5.5cm x 8.5cm)
- Vellum paper or paper in a colour/pattern of your choice
- Embossing Powder
- Clear Glue Ink Pad
- Craft Heat Gun
- Rubber stamps (for both the guests’ names and to create your design in the embossed circle)
- Circle stamp/something circular to apply the clear glue ink with
- Ink pad
** Please be careful when using heat guns as they get very hot! **
Having a go? Tag us in your photos over on Instagram here, we’d love to see what you come up with! Any questions, leave them in the comments and we’ll do our best to help.
-Bride Society
