Decorate Easter eggs using foil. Master Class
Today I will talk about how to make the most unusual egg decor for Easter 2019. Read about painting with natural dyes, and read about ways to use food dyes here.
If I talked about dyes in as much detail as possible, then today, “for dessert” - dyeing with fabric, decorating with foil and decoupage. These are perhaps the most interesting and spectacular ways to decorate eggs.
Decoupage is a quick and easy way to paint Easter eggs, it is not at all different from decoupage of any other items, only egg white is used instead of PVA glue. This, like other creative ways, can be done with children, they will have a lot of fun.
Decoupage Easter eggs with napkins and egg whites
So, how to color eggs for Easter using paper napkins? It's very simple and interesting.
You will need:
- Beautiful napkins (either special ones for decoupage, or ordinary elegant ones from the store),
- Egg white,
- brush,
- Boiled eggs
Preparation:
3. Place a piece of napkin on the egg and wipe it well with a brush lubricated in egg white, moving from the middle to the edges.
4. So glue half of the egg and put it to dry, while you glue the next one.
5. When half of the egg is dry, glue the other half. When it dries, brush the egg with white again. Ready!
How to Dye Eggs Using Fabric
Another interesting way is to dye eggs in silk rags or shreds. For example, in scraps of ties or some pieces of silk with a pattern.
You will need:
- pieces of silk fabric, such as scraps of old ties (make sure they are 100% silk)
- white cotton fabric (such as an old T-shirt)
- vinegar
- elastic bands or threads
- raw eggs
- First, find pieces of silk fabric, old ties, etc.
2. Cut them into pieces so that there is enough to wrap the egg and tie.
3. Wrap the egg in fabric and tie with an elastic band or thread (you can even make a seam).
4. Wrap a white cotton cloth over the top and secure with rubber bands.
5. Place in a saucepan with a small amount of water (to cover the eggs), bring to a boil, add 3-5 tablespoons of 9% vinegar. Cook for 10-12 minutes. Then remove from heat and fill with cold water. When the egg has cooled, remove it from the cloth.
6. The result is a very beautiful drawing.
7. And here is a video on this topic:
How to decorate eggs using foil
Perhaps this is the gentlest and most childish option, but how cute is it!
You simply wrap the eggs in foil, smooth them out, and then draw on the designs.
You will need:
- boiled eggs,
- food foil,
- gouache or acrylic
Preparation:
- Cut a circle of foil large enough to wrap around the egg.
2. Wrap the egg in foil.
3. Now smooth the egg with some smooth metal object. For example, this can be done with scissors or a spoon.
The decor of Easter eggs is very diverse. Even a boiled egg can be decorated absolutely incredibly, and today we will share with you one of these methods of transformation.
This method lies on the surface in the literal and figurative sense. You just need to wrap the egg in something beautiful, so that the wrapper takes its shape. And why not do this using food foil?
Well, you can add bright colors using acrylic or colored paper stickers. Let's talk about this.
Susan Myers came up with a great idea - to make foil Easter egg decor. This spectacular option DIY Easter eggs incredibly simple and easy for kids to repeat. So you can safely involve children in the work. To make Easter eggs with your own hands using this method, you will need ordinary food foil, acrylic paints and brushes.
First you need to cut a circle of foil large enough to wrap an egg in it. After the egg is wrapped, the foil must be smoothed using any smooth device, such as a scissor handle. Now all that remains is to paint the eggs with acrylic paints according to your own taste, and your DIY Easter craft is ready. So, watch the master class on decorating Easter eggs using foil on the blog "Suzy's Sitcom".
How to decorate Easter eggs using foil
How to decorate Easter eggs using foil. Video master classes
A simple way to decorate eggs for Easter with foil:
Easter eggs in foil. Children's craft:
It is impossible to remain indifferent to the Easter tradition of painting eggs. However, fashion trends make their own adjustments to such an ancient art form as “painting”. To the traditional techniques are added some that are not entirely familiar, but no less beautiful and original. And in our review - 15 unusual methods that can be adopted.
1. Black and white classics
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The use of black, a non-traditional color for Easter eggs, gives them special attractiveness and originality. Painting with slate paint will create the effect of a blackboard on which you can draw, write wishes with chalk or a white pencil.
2. Colorful stains
This technique can be called "lazy", or does not require outstanding talent in the field of fine art. It is enough just to dip the brush, press it to the shell and allow the watercolor paint to flow chaotically. Such patterns dry out very quickly. You can also use several colors that will gradually fade into each other.
3. Tattooed Easter eggs
This is an original idea for decoration based on stickers that are “translated” onto the skin and imitate tattoos. This method will attract and delight the child. Funny images can serve as an idea for a game. The principle of transfer is very simple, just press the sticker well, moisten it with water and make sure that the design is completely transferred to the shell.
4. Marble patterns
This unusual method is suitable not only for manicure but also as Easter decor. A good opportunity to give a “second life” to nail polishes, since you can use already dried ones. In order to use this method, you need to pour varnishes into a cup of water one by one and lower the empty shell into it, after securing it on a stick. This way you can remove the finished product without damage and without getting your hands dirty.
5. Embroidered shirt
You can embroider not only on fabric. This technique also uses only eggshells, so you need to prepare them first: remove the contents of the egg and let it dry from the inside. After this, the holes are carefully pierced with special tools. You can use any thread, preferably bright colors, but it is better to choose thinner ribbons. It is worth noting that this is a very painstaking work with a fragile object, and therefore requires perseverance and concentration from the person who will perform it.
6. Golden chic
Decorating Easter eggs with gold elements will add sophistication and satisfy the taste of any esthete. Gold leaf looks impressive both as a main design and as an addition to other decorations. Instead of gold plates, you can take foil, which is used in manicure.
7. “Shell on shell”
To decorate eggs using this technique, you need to prepare an empty white shell, pre-painted. Glue pieces of colored shell onto the white egg, leaving small spaces between them. The resulting mosaic will look great, both monochromatic and multi-colored.
8. A series of colorful characters
From a huge number of drawn characters, you can choose your favorite ones and create colorful Easter eggs. Acrylic paints or gouache are used to paint them. You can create a 3D effect by adding paper elements. Undoubtedly, it is worth involving children in the production, allowing them to show their imagination and the opportunity to create their own character.
9. Decoupage technique
A quick and easy way to decorate. It is perfect for those who have little time and cannot spend a long time fiddling around with decorating eggs. The principle is simple: pieces of napkin with a pattern you like are carefully glued to the shell, all wrinkles and irregularities are straightened out. And to consolidate the result, the “pattern” is covered with glue or varnish.
10. "Quilling"
First you need to familiarize yourself with the features of this technology. Strips of paper are twisted and formed into certain patterns, then all the elements are glued together. In this way, you can decorate natural eggs by gluing the shells or create decorative masterpieces.
11. Dinosaur eggs
An original idea for creating dinosaur eggs or mythical dragons.
First option: dip the overcooked egg into the dye. Through cracks in the shell, paint will seep inside, creating a kind of mesh.
Another option: paste sequins or other available materials over the shell, creating a semblance of scales. Lovers of huge reptiles and Jurassic Park fans will love these Easter eggs.
12. Winding threads
This unusual technique involves using floss, iris and other silk or cotton threads for sewing or knitting. You can wind different colors (by gluing the threads in a chaotic order or laying the turns evenly and tightly), first by securing the end on top with a pin or tape. At the end, the “ball” should be greased with glue and allowed to dry. You can complement the result by sprinkling with beads or glitter.
13. The beauty of cereals
Since ancient times, cereals have been used to decorate Easter eggs, representing symbols of fertility and prosperity. The combination of different seeds always creates an interesting composition. And an additional decorative element can be pasta of various shapes, painted with gold or silver paints.
14. Space decor
It is worth highlighting the unusual way of coloring “space” eggs. This technique attracts attention and takes away from the canons of traditional painting. Creating them is very simple, just take a few dyes and soak a napkin with them, wrap them and leave them for four hours. Adding fluorescent paints will enhance the futuristic effect, allowing the pysanka to glow in the dark.
15. Silk tenderness
Since silk conveys its color perfectly, it is impossible not to use this to create an interesting coloring. As the main material, you can use old ties, neckerchiefs, or simply individual pieces of fabric. Eggs wrapped in silk and topped with a piece of white cloth are immersed in boiling water with vinegar. Thus, a design will be imprinted on the shell, which can be supplemented, for example, by gluing beads, beads, lace, or paper butterflies. It is better to choose a brighter fabric, since the finished pattern will turn out somewhat dull.
Easter is a bright holiday that is usually celebrated with family, and preparation for it unites entire generations. The format of the meeting may change, but the Easter cake and Easter eggs on the holiday table remain unchanged. The art of coloring eggs has its roots deep in ancient centuries, but even today it does not lose its relevance; new, modern methods are emerging. Long-forgotten techniques are being revived, and new ones are being improved. The artist under the pseudonym Eggdoodler surprises with his filigree carving works.
Foil weaving is a new exciting type of needlework for children and adults. This detailed illustrated master class will be given to you by the author of the FoilArt technique, teacher and inventor Olesya Emelyanova. To decorate a painted Easter egg with foil hearts with your own hands, you don’t need any special tools or skills; follow the simple step-by-step instructions, and you’ll definitely succeed! Learn new things, surprise everyone with your talents and delight your friends with unusual gifts!
Take several large boiled chicken eggs without cracks in the shell and paint them in any of the many known ways in the color you like. I won’t tell you how to paint eggs here. Most already know, but those who don’t know can find a huge number of recommendations on this matter on the Internet. The foil with which we will braid the egg is not called food grade for nothing, and can come into contact with food without harmful consequences. Therefore, you can braid not only a boiled egg in its shell, but also an egg made from chocolate, marzipan or candy. As a basis for weaving, you can also use inedible monochromatic dummies of eggs made of foam plastic, wood, fabric, papier-mâché, paraffin (candle egg), glass or ceramics.
For tools, we will need scissors with long, smooth, serrated blades and cosmetic tweezers with flat tips. We will use scissors to cut the foil into strips, and tweezers will help us connect the elements of the pattern on the surface of the egg when the weaving begins to narrow and it will no longer be possible to remove it from the base to continue working.
As already mentioned, ordinary aluminum foil is used as a material for weaving. There is no special foil for foilart. “Sayan” foil in a roll of the “standard” brand, which can be bought at any store, is suitable. Do not use “heat-resistant” or “extra strong” foil for weaving; they are too hard, and working with them can cause calluses on delicate fingers. The length of the roll does not matter. Usually the width of the foil per roll is 30 or 45 cm. In this master class we use the most common 30 cm roll.
The foil itself is beautiful and shiny, but not very durable. Therefore, we will begin our work by making the so-called aluminum “straws” from its working wires. When I teach children, I always tell them that they need to make a template out of cardboard, draw the foil into strips of 3x30 cm with a blunt pencil, and then carefully cut along the lines. But you, I believe, are adults, and everything is fine with your eye.
| Therefore, do not waste time, but take scissors and cut 18 strips of foil, each 2.5-3 cm wide, from the roll by eye. To prevent the foil from tearing, make long cuts (the entire length of the blade), and after each, spread the tips of the scissors wide apart. Try to ensure that there are no burrs or cuts on the edge of the strip. Because of them, the strip may tear when twisted. Also, you should not try to fold the foil into several layers before cutting, otherwise you will not be able to separate the cut strips from each other without tearing them. |
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| Now take one strip and, using grasping movements of both hands, mercilessly crumple it across its entire length. |
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Continue to crush the strip with your fingertips until it turns into an uneven “sausage” 5-6 mm thick. |
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| Squeeze the “sausage” between the thumb and forefinger of both hands, and with slight pressure, roll back and forth, slowly moving from beginning to end. If there are any uneven spots, go over them again. Do not press too hard or roll the wire with your palms on the table, it should not become too hard. You should end up with a flexible, rough wire 1.5-2 mm thick and about 25 cm long (if the length of the original foil strip was 30 cm). |
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| In the same way, make wires from all the cut strips. |
ADVICE: Twisting wires does not require close attention. To avoid getting bored while you are preparing the material, chat with friends, listen to music or watch a movie.
Now let's get to the fun part. Since the foil is very shiny, for greater clarity, hand-drawn step-by-step diagrams will be used along with photographs.
Take the cut piece of wire and bend it in half to form a “V”. Clamp both ends of the wire between the thumb and index fingers of your left hand, 5-6 mm from the bend, and clamp the bend itself between the index and thumb of your right hand. Turn away from you twice, tightly twisting the wires into a bundle at the point of pressing.
Bend the ends of the wire into a heart shape and secure by twisting the wires at the intersection into a bundle. All twists must be made not in one, but in two turns, otherwise they will unwind and the heart will not hold its shape. The heart must have free “tails” about 1.5 cm long. With their help, the hearts are connected to each other. Try to ensure that both “tails” of the heart are approximately the same length. |
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| Now cut 14 more wires into 3 pieces and make 43 more hearts. This is exactly how many elements will be needed to braid one large chicken egg. Try to keep all the hearts approximately the same shape and size. |
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| Cut a piece 6 cm long from a whole wire. Close it into a ring with a diameter of 1.5 cm and fix its shape by wrapping the ends around the outline. To make the joint less noticeable, roll it between your thumb and forefinger. |
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| Cut the whole wire into pieces 2-2.5 cm long. We will call such a short piece a connecting wire. Take one heart and attach it to the ring as shown in the diagram. Place the connecting wire under the outlines of the ring and heart where they touch. Bend the ends of the connecting wire towards each other and bend them under the wires to be connected. |
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In the same way, using another connecting wire, secure the second point of contact between the contour of the ring and the protrusion of the heart. |
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| Now fasten 3 more hearts on the ring in the same way. The first row is ready. |
We begin to weave the second row.
| Take the heart. Thread the “tail” of the heart of the first row into it as shown in the diagram and wrap it tightly around the protrusion of the outline of the new heart. |
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| Using the second free “tail” of the heart of the first row, secure another heart. |
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| Secure 6 additional hearts in a circle in the same way. |
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| Now take a short connecting wire and use it to connect the sides of two adjacent hearts, wrapping the connecting wire around their touching contours. |
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| Use 5 more connecting wires to connect all adjacent hearts in the second row to each other. |
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| Take an egg and try the resulting blank on it. If necessary, slightly adjust the shape of the hearts (narrowing or stretching them) so that they do not puff up on the surface of the egg. |
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| Remove the workpiece from the egg and weave row 3. In it, each new heart is located between neighboring hearts of the second row and is secured with the help of their “tails”. |
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| Having finished the row, try the workpiece on the egg. If necessary, slightly adjust the shape of the hearts (narrowing or stretching them) so that they do not puff up on the surface of the egg. |
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| Weave the fourth row in the same way and carefully place the workpiece on the egg. We have reached the widest part of the egg, so when putting the blank on the egg you will have to slightly stretch the hearts of the fourth row in width. |
The fifth row is woven in the same way as the previous two, but now the egg begins to narrow, which means we will no longer be able to remove the braid while working.
| It is at this stage that we will need tweezers with flattened tips to make it easier to wrap the “tails” around the protrusions of the hearts right on the surface of the egg. But if you don’t have tweezers, you can also use a pointed wooden toothpick. Having completed weaving the row, slightly adjust the shape of the hearts so that the braid lies evenly on the surface to be decorated. Weave the last sixth row of hearts in the same way. |
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| Now make a ring with a diameter of about 2 cm from the wire. Thread all the “tails” of the hearts of the sixth row into it so that the points of the hearts are adjacent to the ring. Using a tight double turn, wrap each “tail” around the ring in turn. |
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| That's all! The Easter egg ended up inside an openwork net of silver hearts! I'm sure it didn't take you much time. |
In the same way, you can decorate as many colored Easter eggs as you like with wicker foil.
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- Eggs,
- Natural dyes,
- Artificial dyes,
- Various decorations (beads, paper strips, pieces of foil, sequins, cereals...)
- Materials at hand: glue, wax, scissors, awl
Cooking process:
They are edible and decorative. Edible ones, of course, can be cleaned and consumed, while decorative ones can be put in a box and stored until next Easter. The latter will not spoil, since there is neither white nor yolk under the shell: they are blown out.
To do this, you need to carefully pierce the top (pointed end) and bottom (blunt end) of the egg with a needle, insert a straw into the top hole and blow into it. The white along with the yolk (the film is pierced) should flow out. The egg is then washed with water and dried. When decorating an empty shell, white glue (PVA) is used. To work with edible paints, you need edible glue.
Original ways to decorate Easter eggs
If you use any of these methods or any other while preparing for Easter, feel free to send a photo to the competition!
- 1. Quilling
Egg shells can serve as a base for gluing rolled paper. This technique is called quilling. You need to prepare colored paper strips, glue, scissors and an awl. First, you need to make all the elements of the composition out of paper, then glue them to the egg. The most popular quilling ideas are flowers. You can fix curls on both colored and white shells.
- 2. Easter eggs decorated with beads
Easter eggs in a “coat” of beads look amazing, but you need to try hard to make such beauty. It's not so easy to string beads onto a fishing line. You will need: multi-colored beads, fishing line, special needles, scissors, weaving patterns (there are plenty of them on the Internet, in craft magazines). You need to make a belt and braid it around the egg, fixing the ends at the tops.
About five years ago, when I had not yet started my blog, my daughter and I decorated an egg with beads for a school competition in a different way, without fishing line. It seemed to me the most interesting, unfortunately, it was “not fashionable” to take photos in our family at that time.
The white and yolk were blown out of the egg, and the hollow egg was dipped in melted beeswax. In this case, fishing line is not needed, as the beads are held on to this wax. We chose a pattern from those suggested in the book and selected beads by color. The bead was put on an awl, heated over a candle and melted into the hardened wax on the shell. Very exciting, I recommend it!
A pattern is laid out bead by bead and the Easter egg becomes a work of art!
- First competition entry
Master class from Ekaterina:
To make it and braid it I needed
- Alabaster,
- water,
- molds from children's Kinders,
- scotch,
- acrylic paint,
- thin line,
- bead needle,
- thermal sticker on egg,
- beads and beads.
The egg preparation takes about a day to prepare; I pour the alabaster solution into the molds, secure them with tape, and wait for the mixture to harden (about half an hour).
Then I carefully take the workpiece out of the molds, put a thermal sticker on it, and put it in boiling water for a few seconds so that the sticker takes the desired shape.
I remove the sticker and leave the egg mixture overnight in a warm place so that excess moisture evaporates.
Using sandpaper and zero sandpaper, I sand the egg and cover it with acrylic. I tried gouache, but it refuses to dry on this workpiece, but acrylic forms a pleasant glossy film.
When our egg preparation has finally dried well, I begin to braid it with beads.
First, for the Easter egg, using this weaving pattern, I weave a beaded belt.
I put it on the testicle.
Gluing stickers and mosaic weaving
I'm finishing my work.
Here are other options for braiding eggs with beads:
in pink,
in yellow-green,
in white and blue,
and in yellow-red.
- 3. Decorating Easter eggs with foil
Metallic “paper” adheres well to hard surfaces, including eggshells. To decorate paints with foil, you need to cut it into shreds, take sequins and a varnish marker. Wrap the egg in a piece of foil and smooth the material with a spoon. For greater effect, “metallic” eggs can be painted with a marker and glued with sequins.
- 4. Applique on an Easter egg
Knitting threads, ribbons, buttons, grains of rice, millet, buckwheat, dragees, beads, pieces of newspapers and magazines are improvised materials used to decorate Easter eggs. To work you will need white or food glue. You can fill the entire space of the egg with threads and ribbons or make some patterns or contours out of them. The paper is glued to the shell either randomly or in a certain order. You can use grain to imitate specks. If you approach the decoration with imagination, you will get original souvenirs that you won’t be ashamed to give to relatives and friends.
The design for the next participant in the Easter egg decorating competition involves the use of cold porcelain. Cold porcelain can be bought ready-made in craft departments, but our participant Lilia suggests making cold porcelain with your own hands from soda and starch and making flowers from it for crafts.
- Lilia's competition work:
By clicking on the photo you can enlarge it.
Decorating an Easter egg using cold porcelain modeling
A painted Easter egg can be decorated with beautiful cold porcelain stucco. You can buy ready-made porcelain or make it yourself.
My cold porcelain recipe is:
- 5 tablespoons of soda,
- 5 tablespoons starch,
- 5 tablespoons of water.
Mix all the ingredients and pour into the pan. Stir and heat. Bubbles will appear, this is not scary, this is how it should be. The mixture will become thick and homogeneous. Remove the mixture from the heat and stir while it is hot.
All that remains is to sculpt the desired decor, which can be supplemented with beads. The beads are glued onto the egg using transparent “Crystal” glue. But all the cold porcelain molding parts are glued to the eggshell with PVA glue.
- 5. Painting Easter eggs
Acrylic paints plus eggshells provide unlimited creative possibilities. Painting an egg painted with onion skins using paints with a metallic sheen looks very impressive. You can draw anything, without stopping at Christian themes. Felt-tip pens, crayons, and markers are all suitable tools. You can also make paper stencils and use them to paint Easter eggs.
- 6. Mosaic
- 7. Decorating eggs with hot wax
Paints of the same color are randomly covered with drops of hot wax. Then the same eggs are dipped in paint of a different color. After scraping off the wax, amazing specimens are obtained: similar to quail eggs, only picturesque.
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Decorating eggs using paper napkins.
There are usually no difficulties. Making paints is a sheer pleasure shared by all family members; children especially enjoy this process. So give them an hour of your attention and warm childhood memories in the future.
How to participate in the competition
- The work must be completed by you or your family members and photographed.
- The photo must be clear and not blurry.
- This should be the final composition (Easter egg, one or more) on a beautiful background; step-by-step execution is encouraged, but is not a requirement. The phrase “nice background” refers to a clean table or other surface on which you are photographing, without any foreign objects that are not related to the Easter theme.
- The photo should have a detailed description in the form of a guide on how to paint or decorate Easter eggs with your own hands at home.
As you can see, everything is quite simple!
If you already have photographs of last year’s work in your collection, make a description of them and send them without waiting for Easter. Perhaps someone will find your advice useful this year.
Competitive works will be recruited and after the end of the holiday from everyone, so that everyone has time to complete them, an additional notification will be given about the completion of the recruitment and voting.
Those who have never participated in competitions on our website and who do not understand how to do this can ask questions in the comments below or using the feedback form.
************************************************************THE COMPETITION IS OVER!Since there were only two participants, or rather participants, there was no point in holding a vote. I determined the prizes at my discretion. It seemed to me that the option where the volume of work was greater, both in execution and in the presented master class, seemed more priority.
1st place - Ekaterina (500 rubles),
2nd place - Lily (200 rubles).
I ask competition participants to contact me using the feedback form and collect their prizes.
Sincerely, Anyuta and the website Recipe Notebook!
