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Fabric-Dyed Easter Eggs

Wrapping an Easter egg in textured fabric before dyeing creates an intricate pattern that looks like hand-painting. To get the look, use fabrics such as lace, cheesecloth, or netting. Wrap a square of your chosen fabric tightly around the egg, twist to close, and secure with a rubber band. Dunk the egg in food-safe dye, using the fabric tail as a handle.

Decoupage Easter Eggs

Fashion cute and creative crawlers out of pastel origami paper and adhere them to dyed Easter eggs. A coating of decoupage medium keeps these kid-favorite creatures in place. For small details, like eyes, use a miniature hole punch.

NEXTTie-Dyed Easter Eggs

You'll never guess the secret ingredient in this easy egg-dyeing method...so we'll just tell you. It's food coloring! To give your eggs fun color and texture, moisten a paper towel slightly with vinegar, then wrap it around an egg, making sure the paper towel layers aren't too thick. Gently press the tips of food-coloring tubes onto the paper towel, using no more than three colors at a time. Let the covered egg sit for a few minutes, then remove the paper towel to reveal your groovy creation.

Floral Easter Eggs

Give Easter eggs a gorgeous garden-inspired finish with dimensional floral scrapbook stickers. After pressing the pretty blooms onto dyed eggs, display the dressed-up decorations in silver egg cups.

Paint-Splattered Easter Eggs

For this modern take on Easter egg decorating, you'll have to get a little messy. Once your dyed eggs have dried, dip a paintbrush in black paint. Hover the brush over the center of the egg and tap the handle to splatter the paint. Play around with the technique -- the harder you tap the brush, the bigger the splatter marks.

Band Egg Design

Decorating Easter eggs has never been easier. Create a bold look with graphic stripes on dyed eggs with rubber bands. Wrap eggs with wide rubber bands (the ones often found on broccoli at the supermarket) before dunking them in dye. Wash rubber bands well between uses to avoid transferring dye.

Sticker Egg Designs

To create these fun and funky Easter egg designs, dye your eggs using an egg-dyeing kit; let dry completely. Firmly adhere white stickers around each egg, pressing out any air bubbles.

No-Fuss Painted Eggs

Anyone can easily re-create this egg design with a bit of paint and a few brushes. Once your dyed eggs have dried completely, dip a thin-tip paintbrush in one color of paint and add a few dots. Let dry for a few minutes, then rinse and pat dry your brush to add a different color of paint. Play around with brush size and paint color to create a stylish egg design.

Try a New Twist on Easter Eggs

Try a New Twist on Easter Eggs
Robin's Egg: To create the base color shown above, add two drops of green food coloring to standard blue egg dye, and then dye egg. Once dry, dip a fine-tipped paintbrush in a small bowl of brown liquid ink (available at craft stores) and splatter on the egg.

Paper Napkin Egg: Unfold a paper napkin and cut into ½-inch-wide strips. Use Mod Podge and a small paintbrush to adhere strips to the egg, lining up the pattern and trimming away any excess napkin. Once covered, let dry, then apply a final coat of Mod Podge.

Twine Egg: Use a small paintbrush to apply crafter's glue onto the top of an egg. Starting in the center of the top, wrap twine (we used four-ply) into a tight circle. Continue to brush on glue and wrap the egg until it is completely covered. (You will use approximately 12 feet of twine.) Trim excess.

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Glitter Easter Eggs

Go glam by adding glitter and polka dots to brown eggs. They're sure to be a bowl full of pretty.

Silk-Dyed Eggs

Who knew that silk fabric transfers onto eggshells as easily as the dye in a decorating kit? Regular old vinegar plus hot water does the trick.

Step 1: For each egg, cut out a 5-inch square of patterned 100 percent silk. (We limited ourselves to black-and-white prints to achieve the effect above; colored patterns yield more vibrant results.) Lightly dampen the fabric, then lay it flat, right side up, and place your egg in the center. Gather the fabric tightly around the egg, like a beggar's purse, and secure with a rubber band. Repeat this step for the same egg, using a same-size square of plain white cotton and a second rubber band. Note: Use blown eggs if you'd like to keep your handiwork longer.

Step 2: Place eggs in a single layer in a nonreactive pot and add enough water to cover them by 2 inches. Add 4 tablespoons of white vinegar. Bring the water to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes.

Step 3: Remove eggs with tongs and cool about 20 minutes. Then unwrap the fabrics to reveal the exquisite designs.

Silk-Dyed Eggs
Who knew that silk fabric transfers onto eggshells as easily as the dye in a decorating kit? Regular old vinegar plus hot water does the trick.

Step 1: For each egg, cut out a 5-inch square of patterned 100 percent silk. (We limited ourselves to black-and-white prints to achieve the effect above; colored patterns yield more vibrant results.) Lightly dampen the fabric, then lay it flat, right side up, and place your egg in the center. Gather the fabric tightly around the egg, like a beggar's purse, and secure with a rubber band. Repeat this step for the same egg, using a same-size square of plain white cotton and a second rubber band. Note: Use blown eggs if you'd like to keep your handiwork longer.

Step 2: Place eggs in a single layer in a nonreactive pot and add enough water to cover them by 2 inches. Add 4 tablespoons of white vinegar. Bring the water to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes.

Step 3: Remove eggs with tongs and cool about 20 minutes. Then unwrap the fabrics to reveal the exquisite designs.

Botanical Eggs

The secret to these mini masterpieces? Foliage and flowers gathered from the garden. Blogger Sonia Bauer of Bigsislilsis.com simply positioned a blossom or a leaf facedown against each egg, then wrapped the egg in a four-inch square of panty hose and secured it with a twist tie.

To achieve these earthy hues, Bauer whipped up her own dyes using purple cabbage, yellow onions, and cranberries.

Step 1: Select produce based on your color choice: 1 (12-ounce) bag fresh cranberries; 1 head purple cabbage, sliced; skins from 3 yellow onions.

Step 2: In a covered, 8-quart stockpot over medium-high heat, bring 10 cups water and produce to a boil; let boil for 30 minutes. Reduce heat to low, then strain and discard produce.

Step 3: Bring water back to a gentle boil, then stir in 3 tablespoons vinegar (1/4 cup for cabbage). Gently lower eggs into pot and boil for 30 minutes.

Step 4: Turn off heat, cover, and let stand for 2 to 3 hours, or until desired color is achieved. Remove eggs and transfer to carton; let cool.

Take a page from the grade-school activity book with these delicate candy dishes, made using shredded brown lunch bags and sheets from an old dictionary. You can also use these nests to corral your decorated Easter eggs.

Step 1: Tightly cover a small bowl with plastic wrap, then flip the bowl upside down on wax paper. In another container, mix equal parts water and clear glue.

Step 2: Dip handfuls of shredded paper into the glue mixture, then immediately lay them on the bowl until it's covered.

Step 3: Lightly press dry paper strips along the outside to create a "nesty" look.

Step 4: Let dry for 12 hours; carefully pull the wrap off the bowl and away from the nest.

Sharpie Easter Egg Decorating Idea

April 14, 2014 • 31 Comments

I haven’t been feeling especially crafty lately, but this Sharpie Easter egg decorating idea popped into my head when I was thinking about making some them with the kids.  Much easier than breaking out all of the messy dye!

I cut these little bunnies out of vinyl with my Silhouette CAMEO.  If you don’t have one, maybe you could find some stickers to use.  (The bunny design is from the Silhouette Online Store – assorted bunnies by Jamie Koay.)

Put the bunnies on some hard-boiled eggs.

Take a sharpie and make little dots around the sticker.  Start close together and then make them further and further apart.

Peel the vinyl off and bam!  You’ve got a bunny egg.  You could even make some cute chickie ones or use the letters of your kids’ names.  So many possibilities!

So fun and easy for the kids… if you trust them with a Sharpie.

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Make these DIY Kawaii inspired ice cream cone eggs in a few easy steps:

1- Paint the entire egg with a light tan color.

2- Paint the top of the ice cream cone in a color of your choice, creating little rounded scallops where the paint reaches the cone part of the egg.

3- With a light pink marker, draw “cone” lines on the cone part of the egg.

4- Use a black sharpie to draw a Kawaii face, if desired.

5- Add final touches to the Kawaii face with small dabs of white paint (for the eyes) and pink paint (for the cute little cheeks).

APR 1 2015

DIY Marbled Indigo Eggs

You know how much we love indigo dye, right? Well I had to try our hand at marbling eggs this year – so I gave the nail polish technique a try. I used an indigo nail polish to match some of my favorite shibori indigo dye projects. Although the marbling technique can get messy, the end result is beautiful. I went with a monochromatic effect by using one polish color. I really love how it turned out. These DIY Marbled Indigo Eggs are a must this Easter!

Here are some of our favorite Easter projects – clay bunny bowls, bunny cupcakes, a cute bunny purse, and our favorite vintage iron-on bunny shirt.

Read more for the tips on marbling eggs…

Supplies: faux eggs (or room temp hard boiled) // disposable plastic container // blue nail polish // rubber gloves // stir stick // drying holder // nail polish remover // room temp water

Step 1. Fill plastic container 3/4 full with room temperature water. If the water is too cold the polish will sink. Add a little bit of nail polish.

Step 2. Lightly stir with stick to make a marble look in water.

Step 3. Dip the egg under the water and swirl. Wear rubber gloves. I learned the hard way. I will spare you a picture of my fingers after dipping a dozen eggs in water/blue nail polish! You could also try using small tongs to remove eggs.

Step 4. Dry the eggs. I took a piece of foam and used pins to make a drying rack.

You could use any color combo of nail polish. I love how the indigo turned out. Look for more indigo and shibori projects from us this Spring!

Supplies:
Eggs (Not edible are best since you are spray painting them)
*Spray Paint (Vintage Copper / Caramel Latte / Gold)
*Fine Point Bistro Chalk Marker

Step one is heading out to a well ventilated area and spray painting the eggs.  I painted four eggs in each color and they each took a few coats to cover.

After the eggs were dry, it’s time to do some decorating!

The good thing about using this *Bistro Chalk marker is it provides a nice clean matte colored line, but if you make a major whoops, just use a damp cloth and it wipes right off.

I did four different designs; a cross pattern, horizontal stripes, polka dots and vertical stripes.

I kept trying to decide on a favorite pattern and I’m not sure if I can.

I’m leaning towards polka dots and horizontal stripes.

Temporary tattoo paper can be found on Amazon for $10 for 2 printable sheets, and you can easily decorate 30 eggs with each sheet. You can print anything you’d like and then transfer it onto a hard boiled egg! I created this free printable sheet with 30 hipster egg tattoos that you can download by CLICKING HERE.

The images are designed backwards because they get reversed when you transfer them onto the eggs.

You can use this printable to make eggs like these:

I dyed a few of my eggs first and mixed in a couple of brown eggs because they looked so pretty, but you can use this technique on plain old white eggs for a mess-free alternative to dyeing eggs. Want to see how easy this is? Here’s what you do:

The tattoo paper comes with 2 printable sheets (white) and two adhesive sheets (clear with a green backing). Print out the designs on one of the white sheets and let it dry (mine only took a few seconds to dry). As directed on the package, cover the designs with one of the adhesive sheets and use something hard and flat (I used a pancake turner spatula) to rub the adhesive down onto the designs. The package instructions include directions for cutting your tattoos out using a cutting machine – just ignore that info.

At this point your tattoos are ready to be cut apart and applied.

1 – Trim around your design, leaving a small border around it as shown.
2 – Peel off the clear plastic portion. As you peel, you should see adhesive on your printed design.
3 – Place the design where you want it on your egg.
4 – Cover the tattoo with a damp cloth, gently pressing down to form the tattoo paper to the curve of the egg. Wait 10-15 seconds.
5 – Carefully remove the paper, leaving your design on the egg.

It’s a really simple process – everyone’s probably applied a temporary tattoo before, but there are a few tips I learned:

First – DO NOT use super cold eggs straight from the fridge. The tattoos will not adhere. We hardboiled some eggs, let them cool to room temp in cold water, then dried them and applied tattoos and it worked great. I refrigerated a couple extra eggs and tried adding more tattoos the next day when they were straight out of the fridge: no go. If you’re using eggs from the fridge you can let them sit in warm water for a few minutes to bring them to room temperature before adding tattoos. (If you’re planning to eat the eggs, you might want to boil, cool to room temp, decorate, then refrigerate right away as opposed to chilling, warming back up, and chilling again.)

Next – temporary tattoos are made for flat surfaces and eggs aren’t flat, so you may end up with a few wrinkles in your designs once applied (look at the “good” on the first egg below). Use extra large eggs to minimize the chance of wrinkles.

If you look closely you’ll see that there is a slightly visible “film” around the design – that film is a little bit more visible on brown eggs than white eggs, and was actually less visible on the dyed eggs.

Remember, you can print ANYTHING and transfer it onto your eggs (just make sure you reverse the image before printing!).

My kids and I made some LEGO guy eggs last week:

Galaxy Easter Egg Tutorial

For this project you will need:

• Plastic, dyeable Easter eggs – chalkboard or white + black acrylic paint (eggs are $2/dozen at Walmart)
• Variety of colors acrylic paints
• Sponge brushes
• Stiff brush
• Cup to thin out white paint with water

So the first thing I did was started to paint my white eggs black. This was taking FOREVER and then I remembered that right by these lovely white eggs at Walmart were chalkboard ones, too. And since those just so happened to already be black, I decided it was worth it to head into town and snag some of those.

You can do this either way but if you’re impatient, starting with the black eggs is the way to go. The one on the left is 2 coats of acrylic that took about 15 minutes of time to paint TWO! The other is the already black egg!

You’ll need to grab some craft acrylic paints in tones of blue and purple PLUS black, white and gold. The colors don’t have to be anything specific so just use what you have already accumulated in your stash!

To make things interesting and keep all of the eggs from being too similar, I painted galaxies on some that were straight up black from the packaging. On others I swirled colors to give it a different look.

To make the swirled background, take any paintbrush with moderately soft bristles and smooth on your blue tones haphazardly. While these colors are still wet, dip your brush into the black paint and swirl the colors around. Don’t brush too much or you’ll just mix the colors up and have an almost solid egg rather than the pretty cloudy look.

Grab a cheapie sponge brush and start with your darkest color (mine is a teal that is difficult to see) and then daub your next darkest blue on top making sure you can still see sections of the darker, especially around the edges. Allow to dry.

Onto your dry egg, daub purple and then pink on top of the existing blob of colors. Allow to dry again.

Take a different sponge brush and just BARELY dip it in the black. Lightly touch to the surface of the egg  to add black speckles. This might be a good thing to practice before hitting up all of your hard work on the eggs.

Next lightly dip another sponge brush into the gold. Lightly daub the color on sporadically or wherever you see fit.

Grab that white paint and put it into something small. I like these medicine measuring cups. Add a tiny amount of water to thin it out to the consistency similar to a milkshake that you can actually get through the straw.

Grab that stiff bristled brush and hold in your hand with your thumb on the bristles like so…

Let go of the bristles and the white paint with splatter. This is another technique that is good to practice and make sure you like the consistency of your paint as well as the distances required to make different patterns of speckles (think larger or smaller, further apart or densely speckled).

Be sure to speckle some white paint stars onto the rest of the egg that doesn’t have the galaxy painted on.

It’s pretty awesome how totally random your galaxy eggs will turn out.

Don’t worry about making them uniform, just get after it and you’ll see how awesome the variety can

BOTANICAL EASTER EGGS

Materials: acrylic paint, paper mache eggs, paint brushes, decorative moss, an egg carton, andThe Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 by Molly Peacock for some lovely inspiration

Step 1: I chose to use paper mache eggs because I didn’t want to worry about cracking. Paint them black with acrylic paint.

Step 2: Draw flower shapes with a pencil and paint them in in solid blocks. I painted all the shapes first on all the eggs before moving onto detail. I used shapes inspired by Mary Delany’s work and made a Pinterest board that you can use as a reference.

Step 3: Once the solid shapes are in, start adding in the detail with additional color and small paint brush strokes.

Step 4: If you want to, use a varnish over them. I left my plain because I like the matte look.

If you make some, make sure to take a photo and tag it with #MakingWithLars.

Gold Drip Easter Eggs

Gold Drip Easter Eggs

MARCH 27, 2015 BY RACHEL LEAVE A COMMENT

I recently got some Liquid Gold

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for the first time. I’ve seen so many other projects where people have used it in the past, and I’ve been meaning to get some for such a long time, but I just kept forgetting about it whenever I headed to the craft store.

…and it’s better than I imagined. The paint is very heavy and shimmery. It has an unusual texture and density that makes it drip and gather in unpredictable ways.

DIY EMOJI EASTER EGGS

s to draw/paint each face. I shared the order in which I drew each one, but do what works best for you!

Ikat Easter Eggs

These Easter eggs are inspired by the patterns and vibrant colors in Ikat fabric. They are very easy to make, especially for last minute Easter party plans!

You will need:
- hard boiled eggs
- Sharpie markers
- pencil

First, use a pencil to draw guidelines on your egg.

Then you can draw the pattern. In this case, I chose diamonds. It can be chevron, or curvy shapes.

Next, choose your color scheme.

I like to start with the lightest color first.

Color the eggs with Sharpie in an up-and-down motion to create that Ikat effect.

Fill in the rest of the egg with another marker

And don't forget the final touches.

And you are done!

Go ahead and try making them and I hope you enjoy my tutorial!

 

SEWING 101: EMBROIDERED EGGS

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Some people may get spring fever, but around this time of year, I get egg fever. Egg decorating is, without a doubt, my all-time favorite holiday-crafting activity. When I came across an image recently of eggs made by Ukrainian folk artist Forostyuk Inna that were embroidered (yes, really embroidered!), my mind was officially blown. A way to combine egg decorating and sewing? Sign me up!

My research didn’t uncover much in the way of a how-to for this technique, so after much obsessing, I decided to give it a try on my own. To my surprise, sewing on eggs isn’t really difficult at all, once you get the hang of it! I know you don’t believe me, and this project truly does seem to defy the laws of physics. But just read on to learn the secret of sewing on eggs. — Brett Bara

CLICK HERE for the full how-to after the jump!

Materials

• raw eggs (I recommend using good-quality eggs, farm-raised if possible — they have much thicker shells than factory eggs.)
• Dremel or other rotary tool with a diamond cutting disc and mini drill bit
• embroidery floss
• long, thin needles
• small, sharp scissors
• craft glue

Instructions

In the steps that follow, I’ll show you how to make the egg above, but you can easily adapt these instructions to make just about any type of embroidery design you like.

1. Cut a hole in the egg.

The secret to sewing on eggshells is that you cut a small hole in the back of the egg. Now, I know what you’re thinking: you can’t cut an egg, it will shatter! Not true. Egg shells are actually quite cut-able with the right tools.

The trick is using a Dremel tool with a diamond cutting disc or other disc meant for delicate jobs. Hold the tool perpendicular to the egg as shown, and cut a round sliver from the edge of the egg. (The contents of the egg will splatter a bit, so do this over a sink.) I promise that with just a little practice, this will seem easy, and you’ll have nice, smooth cuts. Just give yourself a little time (and it doesn’t hurt to have some extra eggs on hand).

Note: The contents of the egg should not be eaten after cutting the egg with tools. If you want to save the egg contents, you can blow out the egg before this step, but this will result in extra holes in your shell.

Wash out the inside of the egg with a little dish soap and warm water and allow to dry. The image above shows how it will look when this step is done. (This hole is a bit large for demonstration purposes; you can cut smaller holes, which make for a nicer finished presentation.)

2. Mark the egg.

Using a pencil, draw some guide lines for the pattern you plan to make on your egg. You can draw simple lines to help keep your pattern straight, or you can sketch your complete design right on the egg. (The pencil lines will be removed later.)

Next, place a mini drill bit in your Dremel tool. (Oddly, the bits I have are not labeled with sizes, so I can’t recommend what size to get. Just look for tiny bits that are slightly larger than an embroidery needle.)

Begin to drill holes in each spot where your needle will be inserted. This is really the only tricky part of this whole project because the smooth surface of the egg makes it a little difficult to drill precisely, as the drill bit wants to slide around on the surface of the egg. But again, just practice until you get comfortable, and your results will improve. Otherwise, the drilling is easy. And believe it or not, the egg stands up to it very well. I didn’t have anycracking or breaking while I was drilling!

Once you’re all drilled, wipe the surface of the egg with white vinegar and a paper towel, and the pencil marks will come right off.

3. Embroider the egg.

Load your needle with 2 or 3 strands of embroidery floss, and knot the end of the floss. Then simply start sewing on the egg by bringing the needle up and down through the pre-drilled holes.

When you finish a color, leave the end of the embroidery floss hanging (it will be finished off later).

When your image is complete, all that’s left is to secure the ends of the embroidery floss. Unless you’re a surgeon, it would be very difficult to knot the ends of the thread inside the egg. So instead, secure each thread with a drop of glue on the inside of the shell. When the glue is dry, trim the end of the thread.

And you’re done! The possibilities are really endless with this technique — try dyeing your eggs before embroidering them, embroidering names or monograms or using other stitches. Have fun and happy spring!