With Father’s Day approaching and the garden beckoning my thoughts have turned to easy gardening crafts to give as gifts. I love how these turned out and I hope you do too. Plant labels, seed collecting packets and a decorated terracotta pot – I like them so much I may struggle to give them away!
The plant labels are made from large wooden lolly sticks (available from craft shops and some toy shops) which I painted with acrylic paints and then wrote on with sharpies. The acrylic paint stops the pen from bleeding into the wood. I used acrylics by Winsor and Newton in pale blue, pale olive and pale violet – I love the chalky pastel colours in this range and use them a lot. They last appeared here on tin can flower pots which also make a lovely garden gift!
The seed packets are small brown envelopes, I cut out a flower shape using a biscuit cutter pressed into a potato.
I printed onto the envelopes using the same acrylic colours and the same sharpie markers as the labels.
I wanted to present the labels prettily so I used the potato printer again and applied it to a small terracotta pot, rolling it as I pressed to cope with the curve of the pot.
I think these make a lovely gift for the gardener in your life or as a present to yourself!
Hello! I'm Chris, vegan lover of life, wordsmith, storyteller, picture taker, mum to four. Welcome to Thinly Spread where I share recipes, kitchen stories, travels, adventures and family warmth from our home in deepest Somerset and our boat in Poole. 
Totally loving all these ideas!
Bless you! I started writing them for someone else and then decided I wanted them here instead because I love them so much!
Great ideas and beautiful photos – sunshine leaps out.
Thank you, I didn’t capture the roses properly, they are a duskier, old rose pink/purple but I do love the light in these pics.