Pocket Full of Pink: Repurposed Paper covered Eggs

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Repurposed Paper covered Eggs

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Wow! Only 3 more days until Easter. I never thought it would come and now here it is! I have 1 more Easter craft for you. I was looking at some of my past Easter decorations and came across these:

I probably painted these about 15 years ago. They had cute little canvas ears. Well, I got tired of them and ripped off the canvas ears, because I knew I could do something with them!

How about some paper covered eggs?? So easy and very inexpensive! You could even do this to plastic eggs.

Here is what you need:

-A few pieces of coordinating scrapbook paper.

-Mod Podge

-ric rack (I used yellow, green and white to go with the paper I was using)

-Wood or plastic eggs

-glue gun

First I sanded the eggs a little to get some of the paint off. I didn't really need too though. The paper is just going to cover them anyway!

Next, I cut the paper into leaf shapes. I made them tall enough to cover the whole egg. I used about 6 per egg. Then I crumpled up the paper. Just put it in your hand and smoosh it! It's fun:)

Here you can get a good idea of what shape I cut the paper into. Then, I coated the whole paper piece with Mod Podge....I mean the back and front of the paper. Then I smoothed it onto the egg, making sure to not leave any of the wood exposed. Then I put an extra coat of Mod Podge on the top of the paper.

I let the eggs dry for about 1 hour. I just set them on some wax paper to dry.

Here is where I put the ric rack on. I just glued the ric rack on in random places, winding it around the egg.

This egg I glued the ric rack on length wise. I just glued the strips on the top, then put a strip of glue down the egg and attached the ric rack. Super easy!!

I forgot to take pictures of the 3rd egg....Sorry:) I think I like the 3rd one the best. I too the mini white ric rack and rolled it into a flower, then glued them to the egg in random places. Super cute!!

Here they are all done! Don't you love the one with the little white flowers?? The egg holder thingy I have also had for years. It was a mauve color with dark green leaves. I had to spray it! I like it much better now....it's amazing what little spray paint can do!