Karen Kormondy: Hi! my name is Karen Kormondy with Ipso Crafto in Washington D.C.
and today, I am showing you how to decorate Easter eggs. In this video
clip, we will be doing decoupage with tissue paper or magazine clippings
to decorate your blown out, preservable Easter eggs that we showed you in
previous clips on how to remove the yolk and the egg white. These are
completely inedible because of the glue. You just wouldn't want it on your
Easter egg that you are going to be eating. So and these are also very great
because you can keep them for year after year for your decorations. So
let's get started.
Your basic tools are going to be a paintbrush. Any kind of quality, usually
the kid's ones are even better because the nylon bristles are good for the
glue. You are going use a decoupage medium or clear drying glue, thinned
out just a little bit. Decoupage medium is already thinned. So you can just
use it straight out of the jar or bottle and then your blown out Easter egg
and a tissue paper or magazine clippings of different colors and that type
of thing and to start, the tissue paper is probably the easier kind. So, I
probably recommend to do that with young children probably as young as
three can do this craft pretty easily and your just basically, going to cut out
squares of the tissue paper in different colors and you can also cut out
different shapes, but I found that squares have the best coverage for the
Easter egg shape and you can always add on different shapes like if you
wanted to cut out maybe a tiny little flower or maybe some circles or dots,
you can always add those on later after your squares are put on to your
egg.
This is of course, a washed and cleaned egg. It has been dried overnight
and you are just going to take your decoupage medium and put a little bit
on to the shell about the size of one of these pieces of our tissue paper and
you are going to smooth the tissue paper on to it. It will wrinkle up on the
edges because of course; you are putting a flat piece of tissue paper on to a
round surface so it's always going to be a little bit of overlap and a little bit
of creasing. But as you can see from this one it makes it more interesting
because the color then changes with each crease and you are going to
continue doing that overlapping all of the pieces so that there is a full
coverage and so you are going to cover over a little bit of the side of the
piece that you just did as well as the shell and then you are going to put
your next piece on and the great thing about tissue is that the color shows
through and of the piece underneath it.
So you can really make some cool colors as you mix the different ones. So
like there is purple and green together and it just makes a cool, funky
color. After you have put on a couple of pieces you want to go back and
smooth down the creases by painting more of the decoupage medium on
top of it and this helps seal the decoration as well, as well as give it a nice,
glossy coat which will help protect it through the years after you put it on
your table this year and put it in the box for next year and keep reusing the
decoration. Then once it's all dry, you want to put one final coat on to the
Easter egg just to give it, just a little bit more protection and really make
sure that it is all even in the -- with the gloss and different just to make
sure that it's evenly coated.
One note about decoupage medium is that you can either use matte finish
or gloss finish. Most brands have both available. This one here is a matte
finish. A gloss is going to be very glass like. So, that's going to be your
choice to decide which one you want to make. I like the matte because it's
a little bit more realistic, but then if you want like a really glamorous
Easter egg, use the gloss. So then you are just going to set that to dry. I
like to use Styrofoam plates because they are disposable and they also
don't pick up anything while it's drying like a paper plate might and that's
it and then just rinse out your brush with regular water.
Now in our next clip we are going to be showing you how to use blown
out or just regular Easter eggshells to make egg dioramas. So stay tuned
for that.