Decoupage Easter Eggs

An Easter egg is both a ritual food and a ritual souvenir for Easter. To decorate the festive table, take note of the decoupage of Easter eggs. How to do everything right, a master class on decorating eggs will tell you. Carefully study this technique, and then you will get real pleasure from the work done, and your guests will receive wonderful gifts.

When celebrating Easter, it has become a tradition to put painted eggs on the festive table. According to the ancient traditions of the Slavs, the egg has always been a symbol of the origin, extension of the genus and an indispensable component of the feast of the Resurrection. According to legend, eggs for the holiday were painted and painted on them from ancient times.

Decoupage is one of the new and interesting ways to get colorful and original Easter eggs. Ordinary chicken eggs decorated in this style will make the holiday much brighter. The classic applique in this case is decoupage. A variety of drawings are pasted onto the object to be decorated, and then the resulting image is painted with colorless varnish in order to save the picture.

In any shopping center you can find napkins that will be used in decoupage. Techniques are available to anyone who wants to beautifully design a table for the celebration, making it colorful and more fun. Originally decorated eggs for Easter will delight relatives and friends at the lit celebration. The master class will help and tell you what to do.

If you plan to serve this celebration sign beautifully decorated in the decoupage style, then, of course, no need to apply superglue to fix parts of a piece of cloth. Instead, an ordinary egg protein is used, which has good adhesive quality. In addition, there is an additional option - use glue made on the basis of starch.

Various napkins are used for decoupage eggs for Easter. It is possible to use both simple single-layer and special, multi-layer. Fragments of napkins and drawings are cut with scissors, it is more correct to apply small nail scissors in this case.

Along with cutting out details, decoupage also uses hand tearing - various fragments of the picture are torn off with the fingers, then the edges of these pieces will be more “blurred” and spectacular when feathering.

As for the selection of drawings, pictures with colorful flowers and spring themes look great. You can take as a basis for applications various leaflets, feathers of birds, images of animals - all, without exception, that you like. For children, choose the appropriate drawings.

If you want to make Easter eggs using decoupage technique on a festive table, You will need the following tools and materials:

• brushes;
• scissors;
• beautiful napkins;
• water based glue;
• hard boiled or empty egg.

We will need only the top layers of the napkin. You will need to cut or tear out the pattern that you liked. Then apply glue to the surface with a brush and apply the application. The next coat is applied in the same way - everything should fit snugly. Continue until the egg looks smooth.

If you want to do something unusual, you can take other materials, for example:

• lace;
• threads
• stones, sparkles, rhinestones;
• twigs;
• expensive fabric;
• Natural flowers.

You can tie the egg with a decorative loop of dense threads and present it to the guest as a gift. Such a gift will be unusual and stylish. Stones or sparkles can be used as accents in the eyelet or on the top of the shell.

Another option for a gift egg stand is nests made of wooden twigs. To give brightness and splendor, you can use brocade, silk, velvet in the decor or decorate the nest with fresh flowers.

To work with Easter eggs in the decoupage style, you can make glue from egg whites. This is the simplest recipe for harmless glue.

Separate the egg white from the yolk, add 1 tablespoon of sugar and whisk lightly together. Do not allow the formation of thick foam, as the formation of bubbles will interfere with the work - they may appear under the material, which will lead to lower quality crafts.

Next, do all the same operations with gluing drawings that were described above. Apply glue to the egg twice: before application and after. Wait until it dries completely, repeat again, let dry completely.

To work in the decoupage style, you can use boiled eggs, wooden and plastic blanks, hollow shells. remember, that for boiled eggs that are intended for food, only protein glue is used and paints are not used, as they penetrate through the shell.

If you are painting a wooden blank, it should first be painted with white acrylic paint. And the empty shell must be washed in advance and thoroughly dried.

We make an Easter egg with our own hands in the decoupage style for Easter. Consider several techniques using various blanks, materials and ingredients.

For this option, we take natural raw materials: protein and gelatin. In this case, egg white will be both glue and varnish at the same time.

Walkthrough

• We dilute gelatin in water, let it swell. Then melt in a water bath in a small bowl.
• Tear a napkin into various fragments. We determine the drawings with which we will work - various flowers, birds, patterns. As a rule, multilayer napkins already have a colorful ornament, so we tear out the necessary parts from the napkin with our hands and only then separate the top layer we need from the rest. Applications should be small, because when glued to a rounded configuration, wrinkles can form, and if they are small, they will not be noticeable, but large ones can significantly spoil the appearance of a decorated egg. We take out the fragment carefully, because the more correctly we do this procedure, the more spectacular the pattern will look on the egg.
• Using a wide brush we apply glue from gelatin to the surface of the egg, apply a fragment and cover it with a layer of glue on top. In order to easily smooth out wrinkles, we make the napkin impregnated with glue. We apply the selected parts from the napkin, smooth the wrinkled parts and leave to dry.
• When drying, the adhesive gently connect with the shell. For some time, the egg will be slightly sticky.

For glue from egg white, the procedure will be similar. Break the fresh egg, separate the protein and yolk into different bowls. And we use protein both as glue and as varnish to cover the eggs at the last stage of work.

For decoupage work with a hollow shell, you need napkins with drawings, PVA glue, acrylic paint and varnish, a wooden stick, scissors from a manicure set, a brush with a flat bristle.

We take a fresh egg, pierce small holes from below and above with a needle, blow out the contents. When the egg liquid is removed, slightly dry the shell. First of all, before starting work, insert a wooden stick into the shell. We apply a white tone of paint with a brush and let it dry, provided that the shell is not white; with a white shell, the egg can not be painted.

Cut the required parts. We dilute PVA glue with boiled water in a ratio of 3: 1, paste parts of the napkin on a blank. We apply the prepared solution with careful smoothing movements from the middle to the edges of the picture. When the glue dries, apply a few more layers of glossy varnish to complete the job. Important: a new coat is applied only when the previous coat is completely dry.

The whole shell can be covered with a decoupage napkin. To do this, cut out a quadrangle equal to the volume of the egg from the napkin. Fold the quadrangle in half and create a fringe around the edges. Then we apply PVA glue to the workpiece, first of all we stick the place along the fold of the napkin, and then carefully glue the terry first from one edge, then from the other.

We cut off the excess tissue and cover the entire volume of the workpiece with a layer of glue. For the purpose of maximum strength, paint with a colorless varnish, which is usually used for manicure.

For decoupage of a wooden blank, sandpaper with large and small spraying is used, soil with acrylic content, varnish, paint, glue, which is necessary for working in the decoupage style, a small but wide brush.

First, the plane of the wood blank must be sanded with sandpaper, firstly large, then fine. Next, the workpiece is covered with acrylic based primer (you can make a batch of PVA glue, water, paint in equal proportions), then it is dried.

After priming, several layers of white acrylic paint are applied to the disc and left to dry completely. The necessary fragments are cut from the napkin, then the upper layer of the napkin is separated.

The next stage is the application of the thinnest layer of glue. Then carefully take the necessary part, apply it to the workpiece, stick it, brushing it from the center to the edge of the part, and then let it dry.

If you want to add expressiveness to the picture or select the image with another line, then continue to paint the object. Taking the attached image as the base, add a shadow in some place, in another, on the contrary, make highlights.

If you want to make Easter eggs antique, master the decoupage technique with craquelure. Craquelure means cracking - This is a unique technique that will give the egg an entourage of a valuable object covered with a cake. Initially, cracks formed in the thickness of the glass due to temperature spikes were considered flawed. But over time, manufacturers were able to appreciate the beauty of such a defect and since then there has been a technique for artificially producing cracks. This technique has become an indicator of the uniqueness of vases, salad bowls or other interior items and utensils.

Cracked Easter eggs look fashionable and non-standard, and achieving such a result is very easy. You need to purchase foam eggs or blanks made of wood, decoupage varnish and a special craquelure mixture.

First you need to paint the egg with acrylic paint in the main tone - take the dark as the basis. Let the egg dry, then apply a translucent silver polish, dry again. The craquelure structure should be applied in a thick layer from 2 to 4 millimeters, it dries instantly and the result appears immediately - the Easter egg in the decoupage style with cracks is made.

Eggs made in the decoupage style can be used not only for eating, they can become part of the interior, because Easter Day is both a festive feast and a bright spiritual day of the Resurrection.

A master class on decorating Easter eggs using decoupage technique, see the next video.