VINTAGE ENVELOPE WITH A WAX SEAL

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In the age of emails, few people use paper letters to communicate. A loved one in the army, friends and relatives who are in other cities and even countries can be pleasantly surprised by sending a letter in a vintage envelope made by yourself.
To create a letter in vintage style you will need:

Two sheets of A4
Cocoa;
Thick brown paper;
Several shades of watercolor paint;
Hard wax;
Tourniquet (or other dense thin rope);
Button (with embossed pattern).

The work process can be divided into several stages:
Tradition of the effect of antiquity to the sheet in which the text is. First you need to wrinkle the sheet, but so that there are no gaps on the paper. This is necessary to give paper relief. In the meantime, knead a thick slurry of cocoa and warm water. Using cotton wool to wipe the pre-wrinkled paper with a mixture of cocoa. Particles of some kind of powder will fill all the lines drawn on crumpled paper, and will also give the letter a pleasant aroma of chocolate. To add a touch of modernity, the edges can be painted with some bright color, for example, light purple. After the leaf dries slightly, the edges need to be burned, which will give an even larger vintage look and transfer to the atmosphere of the XIX century.

Create an envelope. If you could not find on sale special thick paper in a brown shade, you can use paper from under the bag, which is used to pack purchases in many clothing stores. You need to cut an even square, the size should be any. In the photo, each side of the square is 15 cm. As a bright accent and an element for masking the inscription on the inside of the envelope, the second A4 sheet can be painted in the same color as the edges of the writing paper and glued using ordinary paper glue. After a few minutes, when the glue dries and secures the paper on the envelope, the edges of the colored paper can be cut along the edges of the envelope. In order to bend the corners, you need to make small notes in the middle of each side of the square. By connecting these points, a square is formed inside the square. And already along the edges of the inner square, it is necessary to bend the corners.

Wax wax seal. In any cosmetic store you can find hard wax, which is cheap and perfect for simulating sealing wax. Wax must be melted in a water bath. Since the wax is usually white or milky, you need to add a few grams of watercolor paint of any color. In this case, several grams of three colors were added to the molten wax: brown, raspberry and burgundy. As a result, the wax turned dark pink.

Tying with a cord and fixing with hot "sealing wax". Putting the letter in the envelope, you need to tie the envelope with a cord so that a cross forms at the back. To do this, cut the cord into two equal parts, twist each other in the middle and tie the ends into a knot on the front of the envelope, where in the future this knot will also be fixed with a hot “sealing wax”. First you need to prepare a button with a relief pattern, which is printed on the surface of the frozen "sealing wax". In order to prevent the button from sticking to the wax, it is necessary to lubricate it with vegetable oil and press on the spilled sealing wax after it cools down a little after one or two minutes. To give an even greater effect, the old edges of the envelope can be rubbed with oil fingers.