Hearts for Charity

I've been working on two paper maché hearts for a charity event to benefit a senior day care center in Santa Barbara. This is something my collage teacher offered as an extra project for our class, and being the over-achiever that I am, of course I had to make a couple.

The first one I did I wanted to use stitching and give it a patchwork look:





For the second one, I tried a painted lace method from an article in Cloth, Paper, Scissors, which I'm pretty excited about:





I already have some ideas about using this technique elsewhere!