For the Birds?

I created this nature shrine for an art challenge i signed up for. It's made from a little wooden hinged box and i cut a piece of foam core to make a shelf and found some blue/green eggs to add to the bottom with moss from our woods behind the eggs. The top shelf has a tiny bird image that i glued onto a piece of foam core and then carefully cut out with a craft knife so it is 2D and the image behind the little bird in front is 2D also and glued to foamcore and then cut out after it dried so its has depth. The other side has an image of a nest and i glued moss to make a realistic birds nest and cut an egg in half and adhered it inside the "nest",added some tiny paper flowers and the wording. The front cover of the box is also collaged and the technique i used for the paint base was so much fun! I painted the entire box a robins egg blue let it dry (actually speed up the process by using a heat gun lol) and then i rubbed petrolyem gel on diff spots so that when i gessoed over the blue the gessoe would not adhere to the places i added the oil based gel and you end up with a very weathered surface with paint looking like it has been bubbling under the hot sun for years. after the gesso drys you rub off the paint with a paper towel where you used the petro gel. Next stop to post this photo to be voted on, how exciting!!