Greenhouse Birthday Card | Hero Arts My Monthly Hero - Sandi MacIver

If you love fresh, mature-inspired cardmaking, today’s greenhouse birthday card is going to steal your heart. Featuring the latest Hero Arts My Monthly Hero release, this design combines vibrant ink smooshing, layered die cuts and a stunning greenhouse frame to create a bright and cheerful scene.

The playful “Plantastic Birthday” sentiment, paired with sweet details like the hanging plant and adorable cat, makes this card perfect for any plant lover. It’s a fun mix of dimension, color and texture–and easier to create than it looks!

Oh – and did you notice the plant on the right is knocked over? Yep…. the cat definitely did that.

Products used for today’s Greenhouse Birthday Card | Hero Arts My Monthly Hero

How to Create the Greenhouse Birthday Card | Hero Arts My Monthly Hero:

Create the Card Base:

Start by creating a white, top-folding A2 sized card base. (4-1/4″ x 11″, score and fold at 5-1/2″.

Create the Ink Smooshed Card front:

Cut a panel of watercolor paper to 4″ x 5-1/4″.

Using a glass mat, add Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink to the mat, spritz with water and then press the top of the panel into the ink. Heat set and repeat until you achieve good coverage.

Repeat the same process with the Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink on the bottom portion of the panel.

Once dry, use the Cobblestone Stencil with Mowed Lawn Ink to add subtle texture along the left side of the panel. Then use the Dots Stencil to add detail in the bottom right corner.

Adhere the finished panel to the center of the card base.

Die cut the Greenhouse and art pieces.

Die cut the greenhouse from mirror gold cardstock and attach it to the card front with white glue.

Die cut the art pieces from Rainforest, Fern, Anchor, and Mulberry cardstock.

Adhere them together to create the 3 plants and the cat and then use foam squares to attach them to the card front.

Use the You Grow Girl Stamp and Cut and white heat emboss the sentiment onto a scrap of black cardstock. Cut out with the coordinating die and attach to the center of the doorway on the greenhouse.

Use a Copic Multiliner 0.3 black pen to add a border and crosshatch detail to the tipped over plant.

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