Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 97

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“Be kind to people. Not because they’re nice, but because you are.”

— Stephen Colbert

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Inspiration of the week: Fragonard

The Perfumery: Parfumerie Fragonard (Est. 1926)The perfume house was founded in Grasse, France. The company was named to honor the town’s most famous artistic son, celebrating both the region’s historical elegance and the art of fragrance. 

Modern Operations: Today, Maison Fragonard is run by three great-granddaughters of the founder (Agnès, Françoise, and Anne Costa). The company operates three factories, numerous boutiques, and multiple museums, and continues to produce high-quality fragrances, soaps, and cosmetics using traditional Provençal methods.

Founding: In 1926, a former Parisian notary named Eugène Fuchs bought an 18th-century tannery in Grasse and established his own perfumery. His vision was to pioneer direct sales to the tourists who were flocking to the French Riviera.

Expansion & Museums: Under Fuchs’s grandson, Jean-François Costa, the company expanded by opening locations in Èze and Paris. An avid art collector, Costa also launched several museums dedicated to perfume, clothing, and the painter Fragonard himself.

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Peter Bankov

Peter Bankov is a man of many things. Founder and creative director of Design Depot — one of the leading design studios in Russia — that’s Bankov. Publisher and editor-in-chief of [Kak) — the first Russian magazine on graphic design — this is him as well. Winner of numerous awards in Italy, US, and Russia — that is also him. Artist whose art is in private collections and museums in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Finland — Bankov again.

He is all those things and more, but most of all Peter Bankov is the man of the poster. He is a true proponent of the art. He is almost addicted to posters. So much so that for the last 9 years, he has been keeping a creative diary of sorts — he literally makes a poster a day. This ever growing collection of artworks has now exploded into a treasure trove of over 1000 posters.