Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 102

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…

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”

— Neil Gaiman

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Inspiration of the week: Boddington’s Seed packs

Boddington’s Seed Packs refer to the beautifully designed, Art Nouveau-style vintage garden seed and bulb catalogs produced by Arthur T. Boddington in New York during the early 1900s. Rather than functional gardening supplies, these are now highly sought-after collectible art prints and framed wall decor.

History of the Boddington Brand

Arthur T. Boddington was a prominent 20th-century seed merchant based in New York, famed for his “Quality Seeds, Bulbs, and Requisites”. Between 1906 and 1913, his firm produced mail-order catalogs and packaging decorated with intricate, Art Nouveau botanical illustrations of sweet peas, poppies, and irises. Today, these catalogs are preserved as agricultural and historical treasures.

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Asemic Writing

Asemic writing is an open, wordless form of mark-making that resembles handwriting but contains no literal, semantic meaning. Fusing elements of text and abstract art, it relies on the viewer’s intuition and the visual rhythm of the marks to evoke emotion, allowing interpretation to bypass traditional language barriers.