Printer-Friendly Grocery Shopping: Brown Paper Seed Packet Business Cards Tutorial
We all forget our reusable shopping totes from time to time. Instead of putting yourself on a green guilt trip, pick paper over plastic (ask your friends and relatives to also!), and upcycle those bags into some not-so-shiny seed packet business cards. Since I focus on the environmental impact of crafting, I decided any self-promotion should reflect my agenda. Plus, I’m ever enthusiastic about combining gardening with crafting. This is what I came up with, and they’ve gotten rave reviews. The process involves some unorthodox methods, but such is the way of the eco-craft ninja…
Gather your materials and ideas. Here’s what’s involved:
- An inkjet printer
- The seed packet outline template (download here in JPG or PDF file formats)
- Embellishment option 1: A graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP (free open-source software)
- Embellishment option 2: Decorate the packet post-printing by hand
- Embellishment option 3: Do both!
- Paper grocery bags
- Iron and scrap fabric
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Glue stick
- Paper creaser or popsicle stick
- 1 can of wildflower seeds
- Optional: rotary cutter with dedicated blade
- Optional: stamps, stickers or other embellishments(as long as they don’t poke holes in the paper)
