I've made a number of different versions of plant markers and plant flags over the past couple of years. The boy does a lot of gardening. And we have a LOT of plants. So we usually end up running out of one kind of plant marker or materials for making that and that's inspired some creativity. The bottom line is that I realize I should share a few of the plant labels I've made and I'm kicking off with what I think might be my favorite because it's really the most functional and long lasting, yet easy to read and didn't take a decade to make...
Supplies
Plastic plant labels
Vinyl + Silhouette
Vinyl weeding tool
Vinyl transfer paper
Instructions
Basically, you get your list of labels to make together and then design the file in your cutting software (for me, it was the Silhouette Studio) and I basically tried to put as many labels on a page as I could.
I'm also super-excited to tell you that I was watching some TV on my Kindle while making this project... and, I kid you not, through Amazon Prime, I got the first season of "Hey Dude" streaming for FREE. EPIC WIN.
LOVE. This. Show. Freakout over now... back to the plant labels! You want to "weed" the extra vinyl off, per standard Silhouette/vinyl transfer process.
After you get rid of the extra vinyl, you cut a piece of the vinyl transfer tape, put it down on top of the vinyl letters, and use a smoothing tool to make sure the transfer tape stick to the vinyl.
Then, you peel up the transfer tape...
And you place it down on the blank plant label and use the smoothing tool to rub the vinyl letters on there and then peel back the transfer paper and voila!
One label made!
Just repeat the process...
Plant markers that hold up to the elements, are easy to read, and cost very little for each one! And they don't look too bad in the plants themselves, if you ask me...
What do you think? If you have any great ideas for plant labels or markers, I'd love to hear/see them - I'm constantly on the lookout for more ideas!
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