Ended Official BYC Mini Contest #10 - Creative Eggs & Eggshells Contest

[NickyKnack]

Thank you everyone and congratulations to my fellow winners. There are so many talented peeps on BYC!

 

[Catandherchicks]

Congratulations to all three winners with their lovely creations!!!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Oh my gosh!
Thank you very much!!! I'm not really sure what to say.

Congratulations @superchemicalgirl @NickyKnack !!!

So many fantastic ideas and beautiful art on this thread!! I learned a lot about art that I wasn't aware existed.
I'm still looking some of it up...lol.

 

[CuzChickens]

GOOD JOB GUYS!! I love the Chickadees especially, but they are all great and loved them all!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

There was a lot of great competition and I'm honored to have been one of the chosen!

 

[Finnie]

You guys have a lot of talent! And I think you are the people to ask my question to. (Mr. Google wasn't helpful.)

Google did help me learn that I can preserve my blown eggs with Modge Podge, inside and out. But Im not sure how to dry them after I get the Modge podge on. Will it puddle and make a ring on the side where the egg lays? Do you tilt them somehow?

Another question I have is, I have put two holes in each egg. Is there a way to patch them that looks natural? These eggs are for "fillers" for baskets or glass jars. So I want them to just look like regular eggs. I'm thinking I should have done the one-hole method, but that would have been real hard.

Thanks for any tips you can give!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

You guys have a lot of talent! And I think you are the people to ask my question to. (Mr. Google wasn't helpful.)

Google did help me learn that I can preserve my blown eggs with Modge Podge, inside and out. But Im not sure how to dry them after I get the Modge podge on. Will it puddle and make a ring on the side where the egg lays? Do you tilt them somehow?

Another question I have is, I have put two holes in each egg. Is there a way to patch them that looks natural? These eggs are for "fillers" for baskets or glass jars. So I want them to just look like regular eggs. I'm thinking I should have done the one-hole method, but that would have been real hard.

Thanks for any tips you can give!

just dont put too much modge podge on, it gets cloudy, paint one side at a time
what color eggs? to patch the hole (how big?) you could put a piece of tissue over the hole and modge podge in place

 

[Catandherchicks]

You guys have a lot of talent! And I think you are the people to ask my question to. (Mr. Google wasn't helpful.)

Google did help me learn that I can preserve my blown eggs with Modge Podge, inside and out. But Im not sure how to dry them after I get the Modge podge on. Will it puddle and make a ring on the side where the egg lays? Do you tilt them somehow?

Another question I have is, I have put two holes in each egg. Is there a way to patch them that looks natural? These eggs are for "fillers" for baskets or glass jars. So I want them to just look like regular eggs. I'm thinking I should have done the one-hole method, but that would have been real hard.

Thanks for any tips you can give!

Depends on what color eggs you are using. White eggs, maybe just regular white glue - one hole at a time. Allow dry time between filling holes. Elmers has a wood glue that dries a beige color, and it's sandable and paintable. If one of the holes is bigger, you may want to try Elmers Wood Filler. It's blue in it's putty stage, but dries "natural" (light beige) when dry. It is also sandable and paintable. Good luck.

 

[Finnie]

Thank you for the help!

painting one side at a time makes sense.

Thank you for the patch ideas. They might work for the turkey eggs, cuz those are pale. The rest are olive eggs and dark brown Marans eggs. Maybe if I hunt around I can find some matching craft paint.