A double page Art Journal spread - Do foolish things.. but do them with enthusiasm

Art journal page "Do foolish things... but do them with enthusiasm".

Products used:

Faber Castell glass glitter gel

Acrylic paint,

Dark Room Door Circles Stencil

Brick Stencil

Tim Holtz TH5005 Stencil

Crafter's Workshop TCW178 stencil

Upper Case Alpha Stencil by Plaid

Penny Black Stamp Set "Butterfly Trio"

Sentiment stamped on white tissue paper and then added to layout with Matte medium

Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Pink, Chartreuse and Georgia Peach

white posca pen

Black permanent Ink Pen

Butterflies and alphas colored with Prima water soluble oil pastels and covered with the glass glitter gel

Art journal Page: "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song" Maya Angelou

I started with the page on the left and then the page after I cut off just leaving about an inch sticking out from the center spine so that I could glue a tag to it.  

This page was primed with white gesso and texture paste was added to the page through a stencil (no name on stencil so not sure where it came from).  Once the testure paste was dry, I added ShinHan watercolor and sprayed it with water to get it to bleed and run into each other.  After the watercolor was dry, I fitted the stencil back over the texture paste design and added Faber Castell Glass Bead Glitter gel over some of the texture (I LOVE THIS STUFF!!)

I then had some shipping tags my husband brought home from work for me in various colors (this one was originally green)  I primed the tag with one coat of white gesso and then I slapped on some lime and navy acrylic paint and blended them with a dry brush with white gesso on it.  I stamped the 2 circles with stitching with a stamp set from Carabelle Studio #SA6018R in Colorbox white pigment ink.  I then stamped some screen texture with some No name stamps I have in Momento nautical blue ink.  I added some Faber Castell Glass Bead Glitter gel through DecoArt stencil 201705.  

I stamped the bird (Dark Room Door "Garden Birds" stamp set) on watercolor paper using Ranger Jet Black archival ink - then colored it with ShinHan watercolors.  I added drywall tape and cheesecloth and Martha Stewart punch of leaf clusters behind the bird and glued it down.  I then die cut the birds on a wire which was a die I got from the Craft Queen stall at the Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft Expo.  I glued the tag to the little one in piece of the adjoining page and then trimmed the piece down to the shape of the tag.