In the same family as the gold-dipped easter eggs is the metallic easter egg. I used a different type of paint for these, however- coloring a whole egg with a paint pen like I used on the gold dipped eggs would have taken forever. The effect would have been more solid than what I did generate, but I like the slight transparency of the craft paint that I used on these eggs.
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1.) As usual, either blow out or hard boil your eggs first.
2.) Choose a color palette! With these ones, I used all metallic colors: silver, gold, platinum, copper, and a gold glitter. I really like these paints- I purchased them at Home Depot originally but you can get them on Amazon here.
3.) Make a set up for yourself that allows you to paint 1/2 the egg, and then let it dry. Here is a great way to do this, courtesy of Martha Stewart:
image from Martha Stewart
4.) Paint length-wise down the egg, meeting your brush strokes at the crowns of the egg.
5.) Wait for the paint to dry, then flip the egg and get the other side of it.
6.) Display!
I haven’t seen any great examples of metallic eggs out there like these. I chose to paint mine by hand because I really like the look of the slightly transparent brush strokes.
Here are a different style of metallic egg; still cool:
from Miss Rennaissance
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What’s the white circular orb at the bottom of the vase in the first image?
Filler, mostly. I wish that either my glass vase was shorter or I made a few more of that style of egg so I didn’t need to use it. I have a bigger glass vase filled with a bunch of circular green, white, and taupe objects in the center of my dining room table, and I grabbed one so that the vase looked more full with the eggs in it…. I cheated, sorry!
Fancy! They remind my of Christmas ornaments. I guess I’m going to have to step my egg dying game up.
In all honesty, any time I can do a crafty activity I get excited. Pretty much every holiday yields and opportunity for me to paint, dye, or decorate something. Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day…. you name it I make it.
You’re bringing me back to my childhood. It’s all about finding the golden egg, which usually lead to the best candy or the best prize.
I saw some eggs on pinterest labeled “You’re a good egg” which makes me think of the Golden Egg/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I have to say- I thought about it! image caught on pinterest from stylemepretty.com