Altered Easter Eggs

Mar 20, 2010

While clean­ing out a drawer in my scrap­room I found a pack­age of 12 small (1.5″ tall) paper mache eggs. By the way, it is amaz­ing what you find when you clean out draw­ers. I highly rec­om­mend you give it a try. You’ll be sur­prised at the things you have that you totally for­got about…  any­way, I thought some altered eggs would look really cute on my Easter tree along with the Easter Orna­ments (only 1 kit left) from the class I taught at Crop-Paper-Scissors. I think a set of 6 glit­tered with Ger­man Glass Glit­ter and 6 cov­ered with vin­tage sheet music and crys­tal coarse glit­ter will look adorable. The Glass Glit­ter and the vin­tage sheet music will accent the vin­tage post­card images per­fectly and trans­form a plain Spring tree into an adorable vin­tage Easter Tree. If you want to make some for your tree here is how I made mine.

Ger­man Glass Glit­tered Easter Egg
Sup­plies Needed: Ger­man Glass Glit­ter, Maya Mist — Sil­ver Metal­lic, Paper Mache Egg, Aleene’s Tacky Glue, Brown & White Baker’s Twine, Small Pink Flower

Instruc­tions:

1. Mist paper mache egg using Maya Mist — Sil­ver, let dry.
2. Using a paint­brush apply Aleene’s Tacky Glue all over one side of the paper mache egg, apply Ger­man Glass Glit­ter, tap off excess and repeat process on the other side of the paper mache egg. Set aside to dry
3. Cre­ate a hanger by cut­ting a piece of Baker’s Twine to approx. 6″ tie a knot at one end and attach to the top of the glit­tered egg using Aleene’s Tacky Glue.
4. Cre­ate a bow from the brown & white Baker’s Twine then attach it to the top of the glit­tered egg just in front of the hanger.
5. Accent the top using small flowers.

Vin­tage Sheet Music Easter Egg
Sup­plies Needed: Vin­tage Sheet Music, Col­lage Pauge Instant Decoupage — Matte, Martha Stew­art Crafts Coarse Glit­ter, Brown & White Baker’s Twine, Small White Flower

Instruc­tions:

1. Cut enough strips of vin­tage sheet music (saved scraps are per­fect for this) to cover the entire paper mache egg.
2. Using a paint­brush apply Col­lage Pauge Instant Decoupage onto paper mache egg. Place a strip of vin­tage sheet music on top of the wet decoupage, using a paint­brush apply decoupage over the top of the vin­tage sheet music strip, repeat this process until the entire egg is covered.
3. Using a paint­brush apply a thin layer of decoupage over the entire egg and apply enough coarse glit­ter to cover the entire egg, tap off the excess, set aside to dry.
4. Cre­ate a hanger by cut­ting a piece of Baker’s Twine to approx. 6″ tie a knot at one end and attach to the top of the glit­tered egg using Aleene’s Tacky Glue.
5. Cre­ate a bow from the brown & white Baker’s Twine then attach it to the top of the glit­tered egg just in front of the hanger.
6. Accent the top using small flowers.

Enjoy!