Paper Mâché Anatomical Hearts

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You Will Need (9 things)

Steps (3 steps, 120 minutes)

1. 1

   E-6000 Glue
   Wood Blocks and Kebab Skewers
   Allure Dimensional Design Adhesive Paint
   Plastic Bags and Newspaper
   Americana Decoupage
   Vintage Images
   Americana Acrylic Paints
   DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Gold Rush
   Americana Decor Metallics in Antique Brass

2. 2

   Watch how here:

3. 3

   1. Create a fist sized ball with a plastic bag
   2. Mix Americana Decoupage with a splash of water and use it to decoupage strips of newspaper around the plastic fist
   3. Wrap a large straw or create paper tubes with more newspaper and decoupage medium
   4. When the tubes are dry, cut them in 2" lengths with one end of each cut at an angle
   5. Glue them to the top of the fist with hot glue and add more paper over the hot glue
   6. Paint the hearts with Americana Acrylic in red
   *If the newspaper is too dark, paint the hearts white first before the red
   7. & 8. Cut out the vintage images, clip around the edges and decoupage them to the painted hearts
   9. & 10. Add shimmer to the hearts with the Metallic Lustre and then dot around the image with the Allure Dimensional Design Adhesive Paint in Gold Leaf
   11. 12. & 13. Glue the skewers into the wood blocks with E-6000, paint the tops and skewers black and the sides in gold
   14. Optional: Edge the blocks with a metallic gold pen
   15. Pierce and glue the hearts on the skewers