#seeded cards

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Seeded Cards

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Instead of actually printing onto the cards with a printer, I have decided to go for a method to inscribe the ‘Grow your own Salad’ concept onto the cards by using stamps and an ink pad. 

This makes for an imperfect unique look and feel of the cards that communicates the spirit of this project very well.

I was firstly thinking of colouring the seeded pads themselves but their transparency got lost in that process, this is why I decided to place them onto pre-coloured circles (blue and green).

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Seeded cards in progress

Cutting down the cards to the right size and folding them. The inside will be decorated later on with some few colourful accents.

The look of the cards is supposed to be as natural as possible to communicate that this is a self growing project that encourages people to rethink some of their habits in a discrete and non-invasive way. These cards would make for a great gift.

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Grow your own salad!

Creating a new concept has been a longer process than I have thought, but I finally came up with a concept for the seeded cards that I am happy with: Grow your own salad!

I have decided not buy any ready made seeded paper and I am not going to make my own either as many people who tried these methods have said that not all seems really germinate and in most cases it is difficult to find or make paper that is plantable and printable at the same time is essential for my project idea in order to use the botanical illustrations.

Instead I intend to produce a series of cards made from brownish, natural looking paper with a lot of character. Onto these cards I will be printing my botanical illustrations and in the inside i will somehow try to include the lettuce mix seeds. I will continue my research of how I could possibly do this.

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The seeds I bought would resemble my botanical illustrations I had created earlier on for my ceramic plates projects, so I decided to use the same visuals, but simply arrange them in a different way that would be suitable for a card.

I tried lowering the opacity to see how that would possibly look, but I prefer the full colour range. The reason why I arranged them in this particular way, is that i anted to mimic the natural way how lettuce and herbs would grow: slightly chaotic, but harmonising a the same time. One leaf covering the other, but still having enough space to grow freely.