Paper Stitch piece

Well since I'm on here thought I would post my paper piece.
I had started to create a face using torn pieces of paper on a canvas which I quite enjoyed doing. I added a little warm colour just to the cheeks but the colour did spread out since I used the same brush for the glue!

I was worried she was a little thin in the face so I made her face a little more rounded and when I cut her out she did seem a lot better.

I created the background by just tearing lots of different types of paper and ironing them to calico using bondaweb. There were a few loose ends however but I opted to solve them by adding stitching.

I did like the rough feel of the paper. I wanted to add the face but wasn't sure where and then there was an awful lot of empty space. I had thought of adding more faces and have been quite taken by textile artists that just create line drawings in stitch. So I thought it would be interesting to just draw out the faces but not colour them so that the only colour was my torn paper girl.
I must admit that I really liked the effect and am quite taken with this line drawing in a darker thread.

The background however still needed something to fix in all the loose ends of the torn paper and something to tie it all together. So I opted to have a go at script and put it sideways to make it look more like a pattern. Also I used a brown thread to push it back into the background as I didn't want to overshadow the faces. I chose a quote by Helen Keller as I really liked it! 

It says

The best and most beautiful things in the world

 cannot be seen or even touched 

- they must be felt with the heart.

Here is the finished piece. I don't think that I want to add anything further to it.

Please let me have copies or bring along your paper stitched pieces with you to the next meeting and I can post them here. If you would like to add any commentary about how you made your piece that would be wonderful too.