Monday, March 28, 2011

The Prettiest Easter Eggs.

We have been making beautiful heirloom eggs to decorate hour home for Easter. This craft makes such pretty eggs... we used transfers to color our eggs beautifully.


All we needed was white blown egg shells (tutorial on how to safely do this is here) and transfers that we found at a craft store... both the rub-on's and the transfers that need to be dampened with a wet cloth will work.


Kitty and Teddy chose which images they wanted for their eggs and cut neatly around the edges.


We used rub-on's and they worked wonderfully, sticking nicely to the naturally porous egg shells.


It was a gift to watch the delight on my children's faces as their eggs got prettier and prettier.




Happy Easter crafting!

Blessings and magic,
Donni

15 comments:

rox said...

these are gorgeous ! are rub ons those tattoos for kids ?

Sunshine Mama said...

My SIL showed me that trick last year, and I forgot about it until seeing your post just now :) I love your choice of transfers, the eggs turned out beautifully!

homeschool family said...

These are truly beautiful, wow, I can't think of a good enough word to describe how much I love these! I have only just found the blog, but will be following closely from now on. We love finding new things to make.
www.no-time-for-housework.blogspot.com

marcia at Child in Harmony said...

I Love the nature themes of the rub ons...the eggs are soo beautiful!!

We have so many white hen eggs to decorate :)

happy day!

Beth said...

They are gorgeous, Donni! love, Beth

anushka said...

beautiful! i must try these one day.

Astrid in Bristling Acres said...

Lovely! Where did you find those beautiful rub-ons?

themagiconions said...

Rub-on's are those transferables you scrapbook with... you know, those things that come on clear plastic pager and you set them on the thing you want to transfer the image to and then rub over them and the image comes off the clear plastic and onto your object.
We found ours at Michaels and I've seen really cute ones at Target too.
Enjoy, Darlings :-)
Blessings and magic,
Donni

themagiconions said...

Oh yes, also meant to add that the kiddie tatoos that you wet with a cloth to attach also work wonderfully.

Shannon said...

I have found the most wonderful silk scarves and hankies...now have to go looking for rub ons! Thank you.

Tiny Apples said...

Oh my! Those are sooo pretty!! Thanks for sharing.

Lindsey said...

what a wonderful idea! I have seen these transfers before but couldn't think of what to do with them. I love it!

Janee Lookerse said...

Oh so thats what you do with the shells from the silk dyed eggs that didn't work...hold on I have to go to the craft store...I'll be right back.

xoxo
Janee
yellowbirdyellowbeard.blogspot.com

TJ said...

I love the transfer idea! Beautiful! We blow our eggs out with a syringe and only one hole in the egg (no mouths on the eggs, yay!) You can find the tutorial here:
http://welcomehomefarm-tj.blogspot.com/2011/04/blowing-out-eggs.html

pam said...

Beautiful results. would have never thought of this!

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