Make A Vintage Seed Packet Design With One Prompt

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Vintage seed packets are a sneaky good printable. Gardeners use them for saving and gifting their own seeds, crafters put them in junk journals, and a framed set of them makes great kitchen wall art.

The old 1920s catalog look is the one people want, and it’s easy to get with the right style line.

Here’s the prompt from my toolbox.

The filled prompt
The front of a vintage seed packet, portrait, flat on a plain white background. A hand-painted illustration of ripe heirloom tomatoes on the vine fills the center. At the top, the words "HEIRLOOM TOMATO" in bold vintage lettering, and under the picture the words "Brandywine" in a smaller script. Style: 1920s seed catalog lithograph, slightly faded colors, aged cream paper with a thin decorative border. No other text, no prices, no company name.
Vintage 1920s style seed packet front with painted heirloom tomatoes on the vine, reading HEIRLOOM TOMATO and Brandywine
The filled prompt

Hand-painted tomatoes, faded colors, a thin border and both lines of text spelled right. No fake company name, no price.

Make It Yours!

Swap the brackets and go.

The template
The front of a vintage seed packet, portrait, flat on a plain white background. A hand-painted illustration of [YOUR PLANT] fills the center. At the top, the words "[PLANT NAME]" in bold vintage lettering, and under the picture the words "[VARIETY OR YOUR SHOP NAME]" in a smaller script. Style: 1920s seed catalog lithograph, slightly faded colors, aged cream paper with a thin decorative border. No other text, no prices, no company name.

A few to try:

  • Sunflowers with “Mammoth Grey Stripe”
  • Sweet peas with your shop name in the script line
  • Pumpkins with “Connecticut Field” for a fall set
  • Wildflower mix with “From Our Garden” for wedding favors

The Line You Should Not Touch!

“No other text, no prices, no company name.”

Leave that one alone. Old seed packets are covered in prices and seed company names, so the generator wants to invent them. You don’t want a made-up company name on your product.

Full Disclosure

This is the front only. If you’re making real packets to fill with seeds, you’ll want to lay the art out on a fold-and-glue template, and put the growing info on the back yourself. Don’t let the AI write planting instructions you haven’t checked.

Read the variety name letter by letter, too. Mine came out clean, but script lettering is where small mistakes like to hide. The vintage Christmas postcard prompt pairs nicely with these in a junk journal pack.

Selling These?

A printable pack sells better with content behind it, like listings, blog posts and emails. That’s where my PLR shop comes in: done-for-you content you can put your name on and use as your own.

Browse the PLR Shop →

Go make a packet. Your garden will finally look as organized as your seed drawer pretends to be.

Shane Blevins

The Contentrepreneur

Shane is an entrepreneur with numerous companies in both the brick and mortar and tech space. He currently focuses heavily on helping other entrepreneurs grow their brands with content and courses. 

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