Powderfinger – Private Man

This shit is hard! Basically I sliced a potato in half, then drew my work’s logo on it backwards, cut out the appropriate parts while melting a candle in a small pot.

You don’t need that much wax.. maybe a tablespoon’s worth. And let it cool down in the pot first, if you pour it too soon while it’s seperated, lots of oil will seep through the envelope and make a mess. Apart from that, the only other recommendation I can make is to practice your technique with one envelope – if it fails, simply scrape the wax back into the pot and re-melt it. Once you think you’ve got the technique down pat, do it on a fresh envelope

Why am I doing this? As a proof of concept for sprucing up the default login screen for the Zimbra project at work, and to let out my inner artist