Are you a seed saver looking for a cute way to store and share the seeds from your garden? Here's an unusual design for a seed packet you might like — or you could print and cut out the design by itself for scrapbooking and journaling purposes, or for tucking in some happy mail.

This printable pdf file is inspired by an old tin container filled with saved seeds, many in used postal envelopes — and also an old folk rhyme about planting seeds I found in different variations in my research — “one for the Rook, one for the crow, one to die and one to grow”

I created this folky illustration of the rhyme on the front of a vintage letter, found in a local house and postmarked in December, 1934 in Wymore, Nebraska, a small town near where I live.

You will need a color printer to recreate this design and the type of paper you use for printing will affect the quality, as well as your printer. I have shown how the seed packet appears printed on regular copy paper and also a heavier vintage construction paper.

** This listing is for a DIGITAL FILE only, you will not receive a physical product **

the link to the file will be emailed to you and IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR 24 HOURS after the first download — please download the file soon after receiving so you don't miss that window of time! ( I can't set the time period to anything different, that is set by my website provider. )

Companion video showing how I cut out, fold and glue the envelopes here: https://youtu.be/ajyHYEdXVlA?si=7DjmSTVGLr0H2iTp

Your purchase of this digital product helps us provide for the animals here at the sanctuary. Thank you so much for supporting my work. 🤎