My attampt at a cool secret santa gift

I am not super talented but wanted to try something this year. I looked online and found instructions on how to make custom wax seals. (Courtesy of stormthecastle.com) Here we go! My tools that i bought, even though i pretty much didnt use any one.

I needed to have a handle so i bought a wooden dowel but forgot i had nothing to cut it with except this dull knife i found in a drainage ditch one day.

Could only cut so much before it became impossible then i broke it off.

Handle

Clay

Tried to carve the imguraffe. Instead i created a monster.
"Kill me please" -clay giraffe, probably

Bake

Ok that didnt work.

Take 2!

Cut the shape

Tried a simpler design this time

So ready!

Making the full stamp

Melting the wax

Well shoot, almost perfect. Forgot to think about reversing the text and center it better.

Take 3! Reverse text this time

Ill try to marble the wax this time so i added some silver

New stamp ready!

$#%&. Ok lets try again.

Am i an idiot?

Take 5?

Mabye this will work as a stamp? (Spoiler alert: it didnt)

Take ?? I give up. I jist ended up using one of my pre bought stamps.

I slept on it and decided to try again! New clay and stamp and everything. I was only able to get 3 of the 5 letters visable but that will have to do!

I have to put something in the envelope. Ok let me try caligraphy. (I did this before i finished the wax seal of course)

Not bad for a first attempt!

Could only cut so much before it became impossible then i broke it off.

EDIT: I FREAKING DID IT! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE ADVICE!
https://imgur.com/gallery/uxxxd