DIY Seed Paper Favors – Free Customizable Envelope

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Square image of handmade seed paper with a pink wildflower and greenery in the background.

Learn how to make DIY Plantable Seed Paper and a customizable envelope.

Guests at your Wedding or Shower will love this beautiful handmade gift, and the seed paper is easy to make. It’s also a great eco-friendly gift that’s ready to plant.

Below are the complete instructions to make seed paper and a link to the free envelope template.

Note: I used wildflower seeds in the plantable seed paper in this DIY. One package of Mountain Valley Seeds contains about 80,000 Wildflower Seeds and will yield between 20-24 paper seed cards.

Wild flowers that grew from the seed paper we made.
Photo of the wildflowers we grew from seed paper made with Mountain Valley Humming Bird and Butterfly Wildflower Seeds. Planted in late spring, and this photo was taken in late summer. So pretty 🙂

Supplies

  • Wildflower seeds
  • 20 sheets of white copier paper (or the equivalent)
  • A blender (I used an old one I had)
  • Cookie sheets
  • Several old cotton dish towels (to soak water out of the pulp)
  • Parchment or waxed paper
  • Scissors

How to Make DIY Seed Paper

STEP 1:

To start, you’ll need about 20 sheets of white printer paper. I also added a little kraft paper from a brown paper lunch bag for flecks of brown (optional). If you have old envelopes or matte paper you can recycle, even better!

You'll need the equivalent of 20 sheets of white copier paper and a lunch size craft bag. This will make two large sheets of seed paper (or approximately 24 seed cards when cut).
Kraft paper (optional) and white paper

STEP 2:

Fill your blender about 3/4 full with water. Rip the white paper into small pieces and add to the blender. Let the paper sit in the blender of water and soak for about 20 minutes before blending.

Rip up the kraft paper and add it to the blender. Also, add more water if needed. Note: Do not put the seeds in the blender… just paper!

Rip the white paper into small pieces and let soak in the blender for about 20 minutes.
Blend up the paper.

STEP 3:

Your finished paper pulp should have the consistency of oatmeal. Spread the pulp onto parchment or wax paper-lined baking sheets. Pat to spread evenly.

Note: The paper pulp will be about 1/2 inch thick at this point because it is still full of water.

Above is a picture of the pulp mixture before the seeds were added.

STEP 4:

Next, spread the seeds evenly over the pulp layer and pat them with your hands or pat them with a towel to help them settle into the paper pulp.

Distribute the seeds evenly over top of the pulp layer. Pat them with your hands or a towel to help them settle into the pulp layer.
Distribute the seeds evenly over the top of the pulp layer and pat them into the paper pulp.

STEP 5:

Cover with a cotton towel and pat to get as much water out as possible. I did this about four times and used about 8 old dish towels. Make sure to get the water out of the edges of your paper as well. The more water you get out, the faster your paper will dry.

Handmade Seed Paper - blotting water out of pulp
Pat all of the water out of your sheets of seed paper with cotton dishcloths.

STEP 6:

Let your seed paper dry. Drying time will vary depending on how much moisture is in the air. It took about 24 hours for mine to dry completely.

Finish by cutting your seed paper into cards. If your paper is wavy, bend it slightly to straighten.

DIY Seed Paper Favor and Free Printable Vertical image shown with a white handmade 'Let Love Bloom' envelope with a heart opening to let seed paper show through. Shown outside with wildflowers in the background grown from the same seed mix used in this tutorial.

Supplies and Instructions to Make Envelopes

If you don’t have a cutting machine: Download Let Love Bloom – Editable PDF file and instructions.

If you’re using a cutting machine: Download the Let Love Bloom – SVG Files provided. I used a scoring wheel with my Cricut Maker. If you don’t have a scoring wheel, you can still use the “Print & Cut” feature and then lightly score by hand with a precision knife. For more detailed directions see the instructions provided in the download.

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