Keepsake Card - Zinnia Bouquet

Zinnia Bouquet Keepsake Card

Six zinnia varieties, six heartfelt meanings. This joyful hand-illustrated bouquet celebrates one of the garden’s most cheerful flowers in all its variety, from candy-striped Peppermint Stick to the much-loved Queen Lime and Benary’s Giant zinnias.

Inside, the art continues softly behind your message, along with the traditional meaning of each bloom:

• Benary’s Giant: sturdy

• Isabellina: endurance

• Peppermint Stick: sentimentality

• Queen Lime Orange: remembering absent friends

• Queen Lime Red: friendship

• Uproar Rose: love

“Remembering absent friends” gives this card a special tenderness. It’s a beautiful way to tell someone far away that you miss them, or to offer comfort to someone grieving a loss.

Friendship, love, and sentimentality make it a lovely card for an old friend, while sturdy and endurance offer gentle encouragement to anyone facing a long road.

Drawing six varieties of one flower was a joy. Each zinnia has its own shape, petal pattern, and personality, and I loved showing how much range one humble garden flower can hold. The original took about 30 hours in black ink and colored pencil, drawn at 18" x 24" from live zinnias grown by Muddy Feet Flower Farm, a woman-owned grower.

There's a personal connection for me: my sister Sarah is a survivor of a bone marrow transplant, and she gives back to current patients through her private charity called The Zinnia Project. Follow this link to her page here on my own website!

• Size: A6, 4.5" x 6.25"

• Paper: felt-textured, FSC-certified card stock with 30% post-consumer waste

• Envelope: white, invitation-style flat flap, 4.75" x 6.5"

• Inside: faded full-color art with flower meanings, plus room for your message

• Made in: the USA, including the paper for both card and envelope

• Packaging: All Vivid Cottage cards are sent without single-use plastics.