Botanical ephemera kit: herbarium cards, seed packets, labels and tags

Botanical ephemera makes a journal spread feel like a walk through an old garden. This kit gives you 25 pages to print, cut and layer: herbarium specimen cards, seed packet templates, plant labels, hang tags, jar labels, garden journal cards and line-art borders.

It comes as a PDF in US Letter and A4, ready the moment you check out. It is a digital download only, so nothing arrives by post.

How botanical ephemera brings your garden pages together

Pressed a flower and want to keep its story? Glue it onto a specimen card, then note the species, the spot where it grew and the day you picked it. No pressings yet? The 12 illustrated cards fill the gap. Save seeds in the folding packets, tie tags onto jars and presents, and slip loose petals into the glassine-style pockets.

The 3 x 4 in and 4 x 6 in garden journal cards are sized exactly and carry crop marks, so they slide right into standard pocket pages. Because every single piece shares the same plant theme, a full spread looks cohesive and you never need to search for extras.

Who will love this kit

• Scrapbookers and junk journal makers drawn to a vintage garden style
• Flower pressers looking for a lovely way to label and store each bloom
• Gardeners who keep a garden journal or save and trade seeds
• Wildflower fans, nature journalers and anyone who loves a long walk outdoors
• Makers packing homemade gifts, dried herbs or potpourri for the people they love

Design and print details

• Clean, minimalist look: white pages with soft blush pink touches that are gentle on your ink
• Generous margins all around, so a home printer will not trim anything
• Two portrait sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• Undated, so it suits any season of any year
• Each cut-out piece is marked with dashed cut lines, dotted fold lines and crop marks
• Keep it in a binder or on a clipboard, or have a print shop spiral bind it

Inside the botanical ephemera kit: 25 pages

1. 1Cover page listing the contents
2. 2Start here, covering what the kit holds, a checklist of supplies, a key to the cut, fold and crop lines, paper advice and tips for printing
3. 3Pressing, cutting and layering guide with 6 steps for pressing flowers, blooms that press nicely, blooms that need extra care, 3 ideas for layering and advice on cutting
4. 4 to 512 herbarium specimen cards, 6 on each page, each offering a space to mount your flower plus fields for species, common name, found at, date found and collected by
5. 6 to 712 illustrated specimen cards, 6 on each page, each showing a botanical line drawing with room for species, place, date and notes
6. 812 plant labels in a vintage style across four shapes, along with 6 seasonal ribbon banners
7. 9 to 1112 seed packet templates, 4 on each page, marked with fold and glue lines: Sweet Pea, Cosmos, Calendula, Lavender, Corn Poppy, Foxglove, Sunflower, Chamomile, Basil, Love in a Mist, Wild Meadow Mix, plus one blank packet
8. 12 to 1316 botanical hang tags, 8 on each page, each with a line drawing and writing lines, to and from fields or found fields
9. 14 to 1520 apothecary jar labels, 10 on each page, showing plant names and Latin names with gathered and jarred lines, 2 of them left blank
10. 16Mounting sheet for a pressed flower, complete with a fragment packet and a herbarium label
11. 172 glassine-style pockets, one large and one small, with steps for folding
12. 18 to 2012 garden journal cards at 3 x 4 in, 4 on each page with crop marks: in bloom, planted, harvest, wish list, plant profile, pressing log, wildflower walk, weather and soil, seed swap, to do, season notes and sketch
13. 21 to 224 garden journal cards at 4 x 6 in, 2 on each page with crop marks: garden plan, a walk in the garden, bloom calendar and botanical study
14. 23Line-art botanical borders with 5 long strips, 6 short strips, 4 corners and 5 sprig cards
15. 2424 word strips naming flowers by their common and Latin names
16. 256 backs for the specimen cards, to print on the reverse side or glue in place

Files in your download

• Botanical Ephemera Kit, US Letter PDF (25 pages)
• Botanical Ephemera Kit, A4 PDF (25 pages)
• Read Me First, a brief PDF guide to printing

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know before you buy

• This is a PDF designed to be printed and cut out. It is not a digital planner and not a sticker file.
• You receive digital files only. Nothing physical is mailed to you.
• Printed colors may look a little different from what you see on screen.
• Personal use only. Please keep the files to yourself and do not share, resell or pass them on.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If one will not open or print properly, email us and we will help quickly.
• Pick flowers only where it is permitted, leave protected plants alone, and wash your hands after touching plants.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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