Entries Tagged 'Arts and Crafts' ↓

What You’ll Need:

• Pastel Nonpareils (I found these at Target!)
• Eggs, Hard-Boiled (Update: If you are concerned about wasting eggs, you can use this same concept on styrofoam eggs or other faux eggs you can find at a craft store!)
• Tacky Glue
• Paintbrush
• Spoon

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What You’ll Need:

• Fruit Stencils, Click on the link to download.
• Acrylic Paints & Paint Brushes
• Martha Stewart Adhesive Stencil Film
• Eggs
• Cutting mat and razor blade
• Permanent pen

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Every Wife can transform everyday eggs into a magical gold Easter relics. To get a step by step tutorial visit Marthastewart.com

Traditionally-dyed eggs are taken up a notch with a metallic gold leaf treatment. These eggs may look fancy and the leafing process intimidating, but the freeform application goes quickly and is nearly error-proof.

What You’ll Need:

• foam block (mine was 12 x 6 inch)
• 48 toothpicks
• dozen white eggs
• set of food coloring
• white vinegar
• heatproof jars (large and deep enough to dip eggs into)
• metal spoon
• leafing kit (found at the craft store in the framing section) or:
• metallic gold leaf
• size (glue-like liquid for applying gold leaf)
• leafing sealer (optional)
• foam brush
• masking tape for cleaning up metal leaf remnants

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