Knowing when to take advice: Chickadee Painting/Collage only Smaller This Time

Did some mulling over the advice Sande Chase of A Gift Wrapped Life www.agiftwrappedlife.blogspot.com 
gave me on my Iris Post. She along with others suggested I do another painting. 

 I admire her blog so I thought I should take her advice..... 
Ok here we go again....what to paint....

I pulled out this small 5"x7" wrapped canvas.
 I love chickadees and I have wanted to do more with collage so
 I used the little guy again from my friend Jeanne's gift.

I painted the whole canvas gray, mounted a thick textured paper 

with spirals embossed on it.

I painted the chickadee on a snowy looking paper. 

The little guy is perched on a limb. 

I placed a crystal on his wing.

I decided to add the gold shear leaf I found at Michaels. 

It picks up some colors in the paper.

Next came the gray ribbon and vintage olive lace at the corner.

Finally I added the 2 vintage buttons on top of each other.

I really like this little addition and hope to use it again.

I have it displayed on a Michael Aram tray on my coffee table on a small table easel.

It is with some other items representing nature.

This tray is one of my favorite things, a BD gift from Jeanne.

I love putting things from nature in my decorating.

Will have to show you more of that later.

I would love hearing what you think. 

Planning on another one....any subject ideas??

I hope you all have a wonderful day....