{"id":1919,"date":"2009-09-02T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-12-06T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T03:14:48","slug":"diy-seed-packets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/diy-seed-packets\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY {seed packets}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sunflowers were looking a bit scary so we had a couple of options: mow them down, harvest the seeds for eating, harvest the seeds for planting. I chose to harvest them, but they were a bit too small for eating so I went the harvesting for planting route.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1912\" title=\"901seedpackets-1\" alt=\"901seedpackets-1\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-1.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-1.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-1-234x156.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I looked up online when and how to harvest&#8230;here they are drying out inside so the birds didn&#8217;t beat us to the seeds. And the seeds&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1913\" title=\"901seedpackets-2\" alt=\"901seedpackets-2\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since we didn&#8217;t need all the seeds I thought they&#8217;d make cute gifts to go on Christmas presents this year. As I thought of ways to make the seed packets I remembered some Save the Date templates I have (for brides &amp; grooms to send out). One looked a little country to me &#8211; which Sunflowers are a lot country &#8211; so I tweaked it to fit my needs. I love how it came out. You could decorate your seed packets with labels, stickers, pictures, drawings, etc&#8230;.limitless possiblities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My label<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1914\" title=\"901seedpackets-2a\" alt=\"901seedpackets-2a\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2a.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2a.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2a-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I printed my labels on &#8216;Full Label&#8217; printer paper, got brown bags from Micheals and some twine &amp; ribbon to hold them shut<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1915\" title=\"901seedpackets-2b\" alt=\"901seedpackets-2b\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2b.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2b.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-2b-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Labels on. A handful of seeds in each packet.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1916\" title=\"901seedpackets-3\" alt=\"901seedpackets-3\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-3.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-3.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-3-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seriously Cute.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1917\" title=\"901seedpackets-4\" alt=\"901seedpackets-4\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-4.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-4.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-4-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1918\" title=\"901seedpackets-5\" alt=\"901seedpackets-5\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-5.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-5.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/901seedpackets-5-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now I want to harvest all the seeds in my garden, but the reality is it took me 2 days just to finish this project! For a person without 4 kids running between their legs or in their arms you could finish this in under an hour. Very simple and easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>There was a guess that my &#8216;project&#8217; is to build a picnic table. Sorry to say we already have one in the backyard under the sycamore tree&#8230;we do pretty much everything under the shade of that tree&#8230;including eating lots of meals. Keep guessing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>UPDATE: Here are some free downloadable labels you could use for seed packets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-do-it-yourself.com\/2009\/05\/diy-seed-packet-favors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Floral label<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinvaledesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vale Designs<\/a> found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-do-it-yourself.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iDIY<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/triciarennea.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/birdseed-packets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Birdseed Packets<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/triciarennea.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tricia-Rennea<\/a> found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneprettything.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Pretty Thing<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sunflowers were looking a bit scary so we had a couple of options: mow them down, harvest the seeds for eating, harvest the seeds for planting. I chose to harvest them, but they were a bit too small for eating so I went the harvesting for planting route. I looked up online when and how to harvest&#8230;here they are drying out inside so the birds didn&#8217;t beat us to the seeds. And the seeds&#8230; Since we didn&#8217;t need all the seeds I thought they&#8217;d make cute gifts to go on Christmas presents this year. As I thought of ways to make the seed packets I remembered some Save the Date templates I have (for brides &amp; grooms to send out). One looked a little country to me &#8211; which Sunflowers are a lot country &#8211; so I tweaked it to fit my needs. I love how it came out. You could decorate your seed packets with labels, stickers, pictures, drawings, etc&#8230;.limitless possiblities. My label I printed my labels on &#8216;Full Label&#8217; printer paper, got brown bags from Micheals and some twine &amp; ribbon to hold them shut Labels on. A handful of seeds in each packet. Seriously Cute. Now I want to harvest all the seeds in my garden, but the reality is it took me 2 days just to finish this project! For a person without 4 kids running between their legs or in their arms you could finish this in under an hour. Very simple and easy. There was a guess that my &#8216;project&#8217; is to build a picnic table. Sorry to say we already have one in the backyard under the sycamore tree&#8230;we do pretty much everything under the shade of that tree&#8230;including eating lots of meals. Keep guessing. UPDATE: Here are some free downloadable labels you could use for seed packets: Floral label from Vale Designs found via iDIY Birdseed Packets from Tricia-Rennea found via One Pretty Thing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-be-creative"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19883,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/19883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}