Bloomin' Flower Cards

Photo by Bernt Rostad

We’re packing up and getting ready to head to the hottest promotional products event of the summer: the ASI Chicago Show.  We’re excited to personally connect with all the distributors we speak to by phone almost daily.

Come by booth 2029 and ask about our show special!

We now offer our seeded paper with an herb mix of basil, chives, and parsley seeds, as well as two vegetable papers (orange carrots and green lettuce) as stock items.

Here’s a recipe for some great Carrot Oatmeal Cookies (from 101 Cookbooks) for when those carrots are ready:

Carrot Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Photo by Dalyn Luedtke

After your initial batch experiment with the type of nuts/seeds you use. Lemon zest, clarified butter, and olive oil might be ingredients to play around with as well – but I haven’t tested them in this recipe. And I have to say, I love the flavor and richness the coconut oil brings to these cookies. If you have a hard time finding whole wheat pastry flour, feel free to substitute unbleached all-purpose flour.

1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
scant 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1 cup rolled oats
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup real maple syrup, room temperature
1/2 cup unrefined (fragrant) coconut oil, warmed until just melted
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger

Preheat oven to 375F degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and oats. Add the nuts and carrots. In a separate smaller bowl use a whisk to combine the maple syrup, coconut oil, and ginger. Add this to the flour mixture and stir until just combined.

Drop onto prepared baking sheets, one level tablespoonful at a time, leaving about 2 inches between each cookie. Bake in the top 1/3 of the oven for 10 – 12 minutes or until the cookies are golden on top and bottom.

Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.

What’s  your favorite recipe that includes basil, chives, parsley, carrots, or lettuce?

A short demonstration of Bloomin seed paper….

How it’s made, sold, and grows! Video taken at the asi show in Orlando 2010.

Narrated by yours truly, Don

Bloomin’ Rocks PPAI 2010. Thanks to all of our promotional products friends who came by to check out the show. It’s going to be a big 2010! Don

Hi! This is Abby, Bloomin’ sales coordinator, I have just returned from a fantastic Wedding tasting put on   Catering By Design, the premier green catering company in Denver.  The event was in the ballroom at the Denver Botanical Gardens with its stunning array of flowers and cool fall mountain air. I would highly recommend the gardens to anyone, (can you image anything more beautiful than being married under an awning of flowers in the bright Colorado sun… sounds like perfection to me!)

Abby Simon is displaying a small sampling of our collection.

Thanks to everyone who came to check out our new line of plantable wedding invitations!  So many people we meet want their special day to have a positive impact on the Earth, and what better way than to use seed paper for your invites and the big day. What better way for people to your special day than with some colorful wildflowers that grow right out of our paper.

Here are a few seeded invitations and plantable wedding favors.

Seeded paper, bags and tags, even some wish kits are great for weddings.

Bloomin’ has also launched a more casual line of fill-in-the-blank and DIY imprintable invitations perfect for save the date or bachlorette party.  Billy idol almost got it right, its always a great day for an earth-friendly wedding (click here to see the original white wedding music video).

This is a close up of some of our packaged invitations.

This last photo was taken by Jewels Grey at Grey Photography. She was there doing a little networking and decided to snap a shot of some of our products.

This weekend is a busy weekend for Bloomin’ Flower Cards. Don and Abby are at the America’s Mart Atlanta trade show this week promoting lots of new and original Bloomin’s seed paper products. In addition to enjoying the gorgeous Atlanta views, they’re both working very hard at the trade show with lots of seed paper in tow.