Plantable Greeting Cards

Step 3 Adding the Seeds and Drying

Add the seeds to the wet pulp mixtures and stir them in with your stirrer. Then get the mixtures out and squeeze them until they're only damp rather than sopping wet. You can use a strainer like a sieve to get the water out, or just squash them between your hands. Have a towel handy so you don't get coloured water all over the place. When the paper is damp, shape it into the shape that you want to finish up with and then place it next to a hairdryer to completely dry. Don't leave the hairdryer unsupervised, as fires can start from the smallest things.

The shape you decide to make at this point will determine what you'll eventually be able to do with your card. I'm a fan of the more three dimensional cards and so chose to make my flower and stem quite fat, but this means they won't fit easily into an envelope, if at all. If you'd prefer, make your paper thinner before shaping it to dry.