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

[steigersa]

Chicken Obsessed. All the little bottles of paint are good for your eggs, it depends on teh finish you use on them to the depth of color you have. Mod Podge is a good finish but it really never hardens enough. It will get softer with time. Use triple thick on your eggs. It's a very very thick finish when you paint it on, but it gives you 3 coats of finish in one. And it levels out by it's self.

 

[buffbeauty]

Where do you get this triple finish??

 

[steigersa]

You can get it at any of the craft stores. It should be with the paints. Probably on the bottom shelf. It's in a wide mouth jar. Called Triple Thick by decoArt. It's a great product but sloppy to work with. You can also dip your eggs. I don't have any luck doing it but allot of eggers use this two part stuff, you can get it at Lowe's or at the craft stores, it's the same stuff you see in vases to look like water, only it dries hard. They put fake flowers in it. I don't have any and can't think of the name of it. But I think you might know what I'm talking about. Anyway you mix that up and then you can dip your eggs in it, it takes 24 hours to dry so you have to hang them somewhere to dry and you have to keep knocking off the drip. It's a pain in the you know what but the finish is excellent when it's dry. I've had that stuff not dry all the way so I don't use it too often. You can bounce that egg on the floor and it won't break! LOL

 

[Jenlyn9483]

The triple thick does it dry a glossy finish?

 

[Jenlyn9483]

Oh and I tried spraying an egg with my glitter spray coating while the matte modge podge was still wet and it dried glossy

 

[chickens? not yet]

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Nice! so soft looking!!

 

[chickens? not yet]

Very interesting reading this, I don't do eggs, but I love learning this stuff, I might glue something to an egg and hang it on the Xmas tree but that's as far as I would go. I am going to the site and see the eggs. I saw your eggs on here before and it is amazing stuff you do!! Thanks for taking the time to put the info on here. I had no idea about egg dust!! WOW!!




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[Muggsmagee]

I tried using my Dremmel...busted the eggs after testing a few different bits. Slipped a few times and poked the hand holding the egg.

So frustrating! Anyone who can use power tools on the surface of an egg, with accuracy, deserves much credit! Some of those eggs pictured are amazing, and I can't begin to imagine the patience that went into creating them!

 

[Egg Rookie 2010]

I have a drill bit for mine with teeth on the tip. I rest my working hand on the side of the Dremel box which I had laying on the counter and used virtually NO pressure. It took a good 30 seconds per hole. Ill keep at it. The decorating part is harder I think.

 

[steigersa]

Chicken eggs are very brittle, I don't cut them because of that. When I started out doing eggs all I did was cut the egg in half and make a jewelry box. I can put pictures of jewelry boxes up. But I did use a dremel for that, and I used a very thin disk on the dremel. I never ever use hot glue on my eggs, it will yellow and it doens't stick after awhile. I use either 5 minute epoxy for the hanger, and some other things that I glue into the egg. Or I use fast grab tacky glue. I like goop glue because it grabs right away and dries clear. When you do eggs like I do you never use a glue gun. I know it's fast and easy but it gets clumps and strings. There is a program with the international egg art guild and it's a masters program, everything has to be just so your trims have to be mitered, you are not supposed to see any glue and they use magnifieing glasses to make sure no glue is showing. It's very hard to get through this and I haven't even tried. I've read the instructions for each section but never tried because I don't think I can stick to the way they want them done. Plus I will know when I'm good enough. Right now I'm not. To drill holes in my eggs I use a drill bit on the dremel, goes through perfectly, I hardly ever break eggs when I'm cutting. The dremel has allot of vibration to it and with chicken eggs they just shatter. Chicken eggs are used mostly in pysanky, it's the Ukranian Easter Eggs you see with all the colors. You put wax on the egg with a kiska, you actually draw on the egg, then you dip it in dye, then more wax, more dye and so on, Then when you have your design on the egg you melt the wax off. I've been learning how to do this but I am by no means good at it!!!!!!!!!! LOL I like the eggs with glitter, and rhinestones and lots and lots of glitz! LOL Right now I'm working on dressing little tiny ballerinas, they are about 2 inches tall and plastic but I'm putting hair on them and dresses. Talk about tedious!!!!!!!! But I think little girls would love ornaments with ballerinas in them.

These are the ones I have almost done. The one on the end is what they look like before they are dressed. You can tell how small they are compaired to the embroidery scissors. I love doing this!!!! LOL I know I'm a bit batty. I think your egg with the feathers is beautiful. You know you can make that into a bird! You can put a small styrofoam ball on one side of it and cover that in tiny feathers, put some eyes on it and a beak and you would have a really cute bird.
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