Finally, an alternative to the high cost of greeting cards - printable seed packets

Hallmark may have had its day-- along with other giants of the greeting card industry! There’s about as much profit in selling greeting cards as there is in making pizza! Of course, nothing will ever replace a florist delivering a dozen long-stem roses or an orchid corsage. But for casual expressions of sentiments for everyday events and occasions, at a fraction of the cost, not many items can beat— printable seed packets!

Once regarded as a craft practiced only by the needlepoint and quilting genre, the printing and use of seed packets as a form of communication—has become an art form in itself. Thanks to desktop printing, it is now possible to choose your type of seeds from a seed catalog, then print from hundreds of pre-designed packet templates to express your message. In your own words, that now means so much more because they are accompanied by the most novel gift of all—the seeds!

At a loss for words? Let your seeds do the talking

Just as flowers have their own language, the seeds of flowers are just as verbal. Seeds of the red rose send love, a yellow rose says jealousy, a black rose, you don’t want to know! The seeds of Lilies have five different meanings, depending on the color. You can be very inventive: send seeds of the Forget-Me-Not as a gesture of sympathy. Or you can be very practical and send seed packets-- of vegetables!

Choose your seeds from seed catalogs—they’re full of ideas. And vegetable seeds can be very expressive with 4-color photos printed on the packet. Just to prove it: what do you think of when you picture the following vegetables? Peaches. Cantaloupes. Cherries. Plums. Cucumbers. Get the picture?

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