Decoupaged Easter Eggs

I love Easter eggs. Decorating them with the kids each year just before Easter is always fun. I also like how they look sprinkled around the house as decor. I decided to decoupage a few for my mantel this year.

I started with your basic plastic Easter eggs. Our house has a million of these, but you can buy them from the dollar store.  You can tape around the center if yours don't fit properly, but the decoupaged paper will hold them, too.

I had some world map tissue paper leftover from some other project.

I tore it into small chunks, and decoupaged it onto the eggs. The gold standard for decoupage mediums is Mod Podge, but if you don't have any watered down white glue will work in a pinch. Don't worry about the ridges and bubbles, smooth them out as best you can with your paint brush, they flatten out a bit as they dry.

I also used some sheet music. I used a page from the back of the intermediate book, that I was fairly certain WD would never play.

Since this was new sheet music vs vintage, it was entirely too bright of a white next to the muddied down colors of the map tissue papered eggs.  I grabbed some acrylic paint in Espresso Bean,

watered it down,

and brushed it onto the sheet music covered eggs,

then blotted at them with a paper towel. You can see the contrast with the bright white.

This entire project cost me nothing, because I had all of the stuff on hand.  These will be going on the mantel with another Pottery Barn inspired moss project.

Thanks for popping in and crafting with me.  I'm linking these up to Between Naps on the Porch's Metamorphosis Monday, and A Soft Place to Land's Map Party.