Not Your Typical Easter Egg

I don't normally get overly excited about what I consider the 'secondary' holidays.  Christmas is the big one for me and that's usually the only one I decorate for.  But, when I'm out there checking out other blogs, I see so many people doing vignettes and banners and displays and having parties and all kinds of crazy things for almost every special day that comes up.  So, I decided I'd put in a little extra effort for Easter this year.  Besides, even though I don't love the taste of eggs, I do love the look of them decorated.

I couldn't really figure out what I wanted to do with them so I decided to experiment with a little hodge podge of different techniques to see what I came up with.

Here's what I used to make the first batch:

The eggs are styrofoam and I always try to keep a little piece of styrofoam from a box or something in case I need it for something like this.  Just stick a toothpick in the egg, and the other end in the foam and you have a no mess way to paint and dry~

Steps:
1) Coat your eggs with glue.

2) Sprinkle some glitter on top.

I tried a few different colours and patterns:

3) Add a coat of Mod Podge (of course, I used my fav, Sparkle Mod Podge, because you can never have too much glitter).

I'll show you how they look dried later on.

Now for my next set, it's pretty much the same idea with a few different materials.

1) Paint the eggs with some acrylic paint.  I used a lovely shade of tan.  Not typical for Easter but I wanted all of the eggs to have some kind of matchiness to them.

The acrylic paint goes on quite sheer.

2) While your eggs are drying, head over to The Graphics Fairy  and pick out some beautiful vintage images.

Print them out and cut around the edges.  I should've made mine smaller.  If you shrink down the image to somewhere around 1/6th of a page it'll probably be close to a good size to work with.

3) Wet the image with plain old water to make it more flexible.

4) Paint a coat of regular Mod Podge onto your painted egg.  Adhere your image and paint another layer on top.  I also added some more paint. 

I know, they're looking pretty ugly right now but at this point I was hoping it would still all come together.

While those two were drying I decided to try to Mod Podge with a pretty napkin as well.  Napkins work great with Mod Podge.  Because they're so thin you can usually make them shape to almost anything.

When they were all dried I had to add one more layer of my favourite craft ingredient:

As everything was drying, I gathered up some pretty lace and ribbons, got out my cloche I made at Christmas time (made with a cheese dome thingy and a glass candle stick).

After everything was super dry, I just added them to the cloche, tied the ribbons along the bottom edge, and ooh la la, a collection of not so typical Easter eggs was born!  And not as ugly as you thought they'd be~

 I think I need to add some more glittery ones.  Are you decorating for Easter?   Leave a comment below and share your ideas on egg decorating techniques or just let me know what you think of this project.

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