Author: jenimp

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – December 2022 (plus bonus gift tags!)

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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – December 2022

Printable calendar page for December 2022 featuring prints of my illustration of prostrate spurge. Plus 6 bonus Scandinavian-Christmas-themed gift tags!

Two quick tips for Spoonflower designers

All Lellobird designs on throw pillows
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All Lellobird designs on throw pillows
I see variations on this question asked so often in Spoonflower groups that I decided to make a blog post I can send people to, because these two tips have been very useful to me and I’ll bet they’ll help you, too!

How to link to just your designs on a specific type of product
When, for example, Spoonflower is having a sale on fat quarters and you want to show people all your tea towel designs on tea towels with one link, what’s a designer to do?

The short answer is, replace my designer name (“lellobird”) with yours at the end of this link: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop?on=teaTowels&designer=lellobird

The longer answer is:

  1. Use the Spoonflower menu to go to the product category you want, like Tea Towels. For example, use the main menu to go to Dining > Tea Towels.
  2. Click the “Shop All Tea Towels” (or whatever category it is) link, so you see the “Filters” options on the left.
  3. Add “&designer=yourname” (without the quotation marks, and replacing yourname with your designer name) to the end of the URL that comes up.
  4. Copy that link and share it with everyone!

Tips:

  • If you’re comfortable with how URLs work, you can adjust the parameters or take out things like the “sort” and “availability” parameters to shorten it. (And if you’re not comfortable with them yet, play around with it – it’s the best way to learn!)
  • From that “view all” page, you can get to other categories to find out what they’re called by clicking on a category under “Products” on the “Filters” menu on the left. It should continue to display only your products, but if not you can just copy the product category name from the URL that comes up and just replace that part of the URL you made with, for example, “duvetCovers” or “squareThrowPillows” – easy-peasy!
  • If your designer name as a space, a character that’s reserved for making URLs function (like “&”) or a non-standard (according to the American keyboard, anyway) character in it (like “é”), you’ll need to replace that space or character with the correct code using percent encoding – for example “%2B” is “+” and “%20” is a space.

How to display everything with a specific tag on a product, even if the designs aren’t in the same collection
Maybe you want to show off work from several designers who have collaborated, or you want to show shoppers all the calendar options. Here’s what you do:

  1. Start with one of the custom URLs you created above, like https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop?on=teaTowels&designer=lellobird
  2. Instead of “designer=yourname” at the end after the &, replace it with “q=tag” where “tag” is the search term you want to use. For example, this URL gets you everything tagged “mcm” shown on throw pillows: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop?on=squareThrowPillows&q=mcm. And this one gets you everything tagged “calendar” on tea towels: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop?on=teaTowels&q=calendar

Tips:

  • If you’ve used a tag that’s completely unique to you, like your designer name, this trick will display only your designs.
  • If you’ve given everything in one of your collections a tag that’s completely unique to you and that collection, this trick will display only your designs from that collection.
  • Be aware that if someone else uses your “unique” tag at some point, their design(s) will also appear at your link.
  • If you just want to display the designs on fabric and not a pre-made product, use “fabric” after the “on” parameter – e.g., https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop?on=fabric&q=bibliophile

What’s your top tip for other designers? Or a question you haven’t been able to figure out the answer to? Let me know and we can all help each other learn!

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – October & November 2022

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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – October & November 2022

Printable calendar pages for October and November 2022 featuring prints of my illustrations of purslane and hedge parsley.

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – August & September 2022

August and September 2022 calendar pages by Lellobird
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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – August & September 2022

Printable calendar pages for August and September 2022 featuring prints of my illustrations of bull mallow and helleborine.

Caterpillar Printable

Swallowtail caterpillar sign by Lellobird
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Swallowtail caterpillar sign by Lellobird

My street has a lot of fennel (or is it anise? I’m never sure) growing wild on the median, and every year it’s a home to anise swallowtail caterpillars. Because I have wonderful neighbors who pull weeds and pick up trash and prune street plants, I made a little sign this year so no one accidentally demolishes the butterfly habitat while the caterpillars are there. (Did you know that in their tiniest stages, swallowtail caterpillars are camouflaged as bird poop? Nature is so cool. They can be hard to spot if you don’t know what you’re looking for!)

In case you have a similar situation and want to lend the pollinators a hand, I made a printable version of the sign you can download (and color, if you like). This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Swallowtail Caterpillars Printable

Give a pollinator a hand with a cute sign reminding people to watch out for caterpillars.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use.

Be-you-tiful Coloring Page Printable

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Sometimes we all need a little reminder that being ourselves is beautiful. I turned my Be-you-tiful tea towel/wall hanging into a printable coloring page you can color and hang up as a reminder.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Be-you-tiful Coloring Page Printable

A little inspirational coloring page to remind you that being yourself is beautiful.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use.

(Shoutout to Debby Hudson for the colored pencil photo via Unsplash.)

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – June & July 2022

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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – June & July 2022

Printable calendar pages for June and July 2022 featuring prints of my illustrations of blackberry and saltmarsh plantain.

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – April & May 2022

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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – April & May 2022

Printable calendar pages for April and May 2022 featuring prints of my illustrations of bristly ox-tongue and dandelion.

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – February & March 2022

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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – February & March 2022

Printable calendar pages for February and March 2022 featuring prints of my illustrations of Carolina bristlemallow and bur clover.

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – January 2022

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Celebrate resilience with plants that thrive in vacant lots, sidewalk crevices and neglected corners of the garden. This calendar grew out of my 100 Day Project exploring the wild plants that grow in my neighborhood.

The finished calendar page is 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall and can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, in a stand, washi-taped to your wall, on the fridge or however it makes you happy. Just print the PDF below on letter-size (8.5″ x 11″) cardstock and cut it in half. If you want to be really fancy, round the corners with a paper punch. You’ll have a half-sheet left for next month’s calendar page – newsletter subscribers will receive a link to the next page next month.

Each page is laid out so that after the month is over, you can cut the artwork into a 5×7″ piece without the calendar part and use it as a postcard or framed art.

This printable is free for your personal, non-commercial use – just sign up for my newsletter (also free, and I promise not to spam you, and if you’re already on my list it won’t double you up!) to download the PDF:

Weeds & Wildflowers Calendar – January 2022

A printable calendar page for January 2022 featuring a print of my illustration of water speedwell.