We are finally getting some much needed rain today, so I decided it was a good time to work on an egg craft. Yesterday I went to Michaels, for enamel paint (couldn’t find any) but I did find these cute paper mache eggs for $2.99. I was going to do this project with blown out eggs, but I’ve done that before, and usually by next Easter they are broken. If you want to keep these around a while, paper mache/plastic/ styrofoam/wood is a better route to go in my opinion.
I had some cheap craft paint already from another project so I just mixed these three colors together a few different ways to give my eggs each a different hue.
Once the eggs were coated 2-3 times, I whipped out my little letter stamps, and began to stamp “Spring-like” words on to them…like rain shower, chirp, spring…
I felt they were too plain, so I started looking up the definitions, and that’s when the light bulb went of to make them into little “Diction-Eggys”- get it? I know. Cheesy.
When I was sure the ink dried, I placed them into a little Easter basket I picked up from PB last year on clearance, and placed them by my front door. Even though they’re “Easter eggs” I will be able to leave them there through Spring. They were super easy to make, a little time consuming, but now that they’re done, I will be able to enjoy them year after year.
Talk to you soon
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I have those same little stamps and I’m gonna boil me some eggs and stamp ’em!
~Bliss~
So glad you found inspiration! Isn’t that what we blog for? ;o) Thanks for stopping by!
Cute!
Thank you 🙂
I am LOVING these eggs! I love how easy and cute this project is!! Great job! So happy to be following you now- your blog is adorable! Jen
So so so cute!! I love them!
Just adorable. I can’t wait to make some.
New follower,
Eilis
my-heart-lives-here.blogspot.com
I am so happy you found me, following you now too!
Great eggs…I love all the Easter egg ideas floating around out there!
Brilliant! I love them, plus they are educational too:)
Jessica
stayathomeista.com
Thanks for visiting!! Love these cut eggs!! I would love it if you stop by on Thursday and link something up! i am your newest follower.
Kim@madeinday
http://madeinaday.com
Too cute! Educational and adorable… can’t beat that!
Those are egg-septional! LOL My blog list is now working so I added you to it, now I won’t miss any of your posts! I’ve had fun going thur what I missed, love the painted bottles too!
I love this project!
Simple and sweet and perfect for Easter 🙂
So cute! ‘Chirp’ is my favorite!! Thanks for your sweet comments about my china cabinet and love story!
These are so fantastic! I love all the typography projects floating around and this is an awesome idea for spring decorating. I already made a whole bunch of paint chip eggs but I think I’ll use this inspiration to create some sort of Spring printable. So glad I saw this feature.
Claire @ alittlesomethinginthemeantime.blogspot.com
I love this idea! So cute, cheap, and creative!