Today’s project I
actually did a year ago, but with Easter coming up shortly I felt like sharing
this and hope you guys enjoy it! I would love to hear your feedback.
1)
Make sure you have enough eggs to a) spell out whatever name
or word you would like (I used my daughter’s name) or b) dye as many different
colors as you desire.
2)
Boil your eggs and color them however you would normally. We
used good ole vinegar and food coloring for our dye and just made each egg a
single, solid color. I like employing the K.I.S.S. method for most things in
life. (Keep It Simple Stupid.) ;) I wouldn’t suggest putting any glitter or
anything like that on them if you decide to use stickers.
3)
After your eggs are nice and dry, you can either paint the
letters on your eggs or use stickers. The stickers I used were kind of thick. I
would recommend the ones that are flat and somewhat flimsy so they will adhere
and bend better to fit the shape of the egg. I also highly recommend not doing
this on a rainy/humid day like I did. It certainly didn’t help the sticker
situation, although the dew/rain drops can add a nice effect.
4)
Set your finished eggs in front of different, interesting
textures (i.e. shutters, wood planks, gravel, etc. I think this would be neat
for a boy’s name.) or different plants/outdoorsy things like flowers, bushes,
trees. Whatever you like! You don’t have to of course, but I think it looks
more interesting if each egg/letter is in front of a different material.
5)
Picture time! Try to get a close up picture without too much
glare of each egg. (Gotta love digital cameras so you can see what they look
like and delete the ones that don’t turn out how you like!)
6)
Print out your pictures and do whatever you like with them.
I’ll be honest, I STILL haven’t done anything with mine yet. I was going to use
them to spell out my daughter’s name and frame them and hang them on the wall
in her bedroom, but I ended up painting wooden letters for that. I do have
several ideas of what you could do with them. A) Get larger than normal prints
and either frame each letter individually to spell out your word or name or put
all of the letters in the same frame and use for a decoration. B) Print up the
pictures and use them in a baby or scrapbook. How cute, fun, and unique would
that be? C) Print them on sticker/adhesive paper and let your child use them to
play with. D) Use them on Easter pictures. Add them to the pictures themselves
using a photo editing program or print out sticker ones and add them to your
photos. E) Personalize your child’s Easter basket with
them.
Here are some of the ones I made last
year. I just love them!
What a neat idea. They're so cute! I host a Tutorial Tuesday Blog Hop/Linky every week and I'd love for you to join me. Here's the link if you'd like to link up this week ---> http://bit.ly/ZYaaPF.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I wish we were that green outside this time of year to get those great pictures.
ReplyDeleteThat's so cute! I hope it is warm enough for us to be outside this Easter!
ReplyDeletethis is so cute!
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