Blue/Brown Eggs, Easter/Christmas Eggs - Getting my craft on!!

[steffpeck]

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DANG!!! Those are gorgeous!!!!!!!!

 

[sonew123]

just in case I haven't said it-EBAY has the best deals on everything--rub ons-bead caps-etc...I paid 12$ for 500 bead caps and 21$ ( including shipping on 15 packages on xmas rub ons....The nearest craft store is an hour away from me. So I love ebay!!!! Ill post pictures when Im done Ive got 5 dozen done so far...

 

[vicki2x2]

What size bead caps seem to work best? I was looking on ebay and since I have started, I have no idea which size to order!

 

[sonew123]

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I ordered 8-10mm I liked them bigger because it covers if I cracked the egg while poking holes for the yolk to come out

 

[vicki2x2]

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I ordered 8-10mm I liked them bigger because it covers if I cracked the egg while poking holes for the yolk to come out

Thanks!

 

[Kansaseq]

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I ordered 8-10mm I liked them bigger because it covers if I cracked the egg while poking holes for the yolk to come out

You can even go as big as 14-20. I kinda like the look of the larger ones, but it's all personal preference. I've only done about 36 so far, and use a larger one for the top, smaller one for the bottom.

 

[schellie69]

thank you for this thread I am making Christmas gifts this year due to hubby losing his job so this is a great idea, plus I got some quail eggs and I think with their colors I might be able to just blow them out dry and maybe spray with a glossy clear coat and put them in a jar for decoration will have to really start working on this, now to convince kids to poke holes in eggs and make scrambled eggs and save me the shells thank you all for the great advice and great pictures.

 

[Kansaseq]

On some of my eggs I spray very lightly with gold metallic paint. This gives them a natural 'speckled' appearance, only in metallic gold. Some I embellish further with rub ons, and some I just seal with spray. The darker brown eggs look especially good this way.

 

[smfamf]

I just read this post and believe that those eggs are absolutely beautiful.

I was just wondering, seeing as how Halloween just happened, do you think spraying the egg with some of the glitter hair spray and then coating it with a sealer would work? I love the natural look of my Coturnix eggs and thought maybe a light coat of glitter and a shiny sealer would be awesome to look at. Of course that is just my mind working. I'm not sure if the glitter spray would work. But it would be on sale just about everywhere right now.

 

[Kansaseq]

I would think the finer the glitter, the better it would work. I think that would look awesome--letting the natural beauty of the quail shell come through, but slightly embellished. I've been wanting to see if someone would work with other eggs. Please post pics if you do this.