Nursery Art - Layering with Collage

A nursery painting I recently finished for a little guy named Charlie:

Trees filled with ribbons, buttons, and paper leaves:

Plants with buttons and stitching layered over grass:

A turtle with buttons adorning his shell:

The entire painting with collage, ribbons, buttons etc:

Most of the techniques for making a similar piece of art can be found in my nursery art tutorial below:

The only thing I did differently for this painting was add some extra collage layers and ribbons for texture. I cut strips of some green plaid scrapbook paper and applied them using matte medium for grass:

I cut leaf shapes out of the paper as well.

I used matte medium to glue them to the painting just like the grass strips:

Let the leaves dry:

I finished the rest of the painting and applied gloss varnish. Once it was dry, to add texture, I drilled tiny holes and used DMC thread to attach ribbon pieces along side the leaf shaped buttons:

First I placed the ribbon on top of the string:

Then I tied the ribbon tightly with a knot to cinch it in the center:

And finally cut off the excess ribbon on each side:

Finished and framed!