How to decorate eggs for Easter with your own hands

The exchange of paint Easter eggs is a constant tradition, without which Easter will not be completely so. They are given to relatives, friends, neighbors - everyone who wants to wish happiness and warmth in this bright holiday. Of course, I want to please all the egg, in which you invested a piece of soul, making it with your own hands. We will give you a couple of ideas in order for the gift to please not only with attention, but also a view.

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Painting of Easter eggs

Eggs can be painted using different materials, different techniques. All give a different, unique result.

Lyuboy husk

Long husk - a kind of classic in painting of Easter eggs. It gives a variety of intensity dark red. "Cheap and angry" - this is how you can describe this method. It is simple, inexpensive, but the eggs after painting look very festively. Here's how to paint with a lows of husk:

Luce husk (any) boil in a saucepan for 40 minutes.
Give the paint cool, strain it to get rid of the husk.
Put the room temperature in it and boil 10 minutes.
So that the color came out brighter, turn off the fire and leave the eggs in the scope for a while. The longer they will try there, the more intense the color will be.

Natural dyes

Natural dyes are ordinary vegetables and fruits. You make a decoction from the selected ingredient and one tablespoon of vinegar (cook it all 30 minutes), then you give it to breed your eggs in the resulting fluid. The longer cook, the brighter will be color. Consider what dyes what color gives:

Yellow give ragners from corn, saffron, turmeric, oranges / mandarins, carrots.
Orange color is obtained from chili chili or paprika brands.
Pink color You will get scaring with raspberries, cranberry or fighting eggs in red wine.
Rich red color will give grenade juice or black currant.
Blue color is extracted from red cabbage, blueberries or blue potatoes.
Purple color will be able to boil eggs in black grape juice.
Green color eggs will give a decoction of spinach.

Food colorings

Painting eggs with food dyes is extremely simple. The only minus of this method: it is not distinguished by originality. Although here you can do something interesting what we will tell later. So far just paint eggs:

Divide dyes in water tanks, each color in a separate one.
Add one tablespoon of vinegar.
Already welded screwed eggs put in tanks.
Keep them there until they get the right color.

And now, as promised, the secret of the original eggs: first paint them entirely in one color, then half into another, just plunging into the tank with the desired paint. So you can do as much as you like, as a result, you will get beautiful striped Easter eggs.

Marble eggs

This is a very beautiful and original way of painting eggs. For him you will need light and dark dyes, butter. Let's proceed:

Color eggs in any light color.
Prepare a dark dye. Add vegetable oil into it. Stir so that there were many oil circles on the surface.
Each egg is plunged into the mixture one time. They will remain beautiful marble patterns.

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Decorating eggs for Easter

Decoupage

Decoupage - Technique Decoration of the subject with a drawing on it and the coating of a lacquer for the brilliance. The image will take from simple patterned napkins, and varnish with the gelatin glue. First prepare it:

Divide gelatin with water. The ratio will be indicated on the packaging.
Straighten through the siete to cut off excess fluid.
Heat on medium heat before dissolving the granules.

Now proceed to decoupage:

Select napkins with a beautiful pattern and cut it out.
Separate the layers from each other if the napkins are multi-layered, leave only a layer with a pattern.
Apply the napkin to the egg and apply over the gelatin glue. Movements from the center to the edges.

Thread Muline

Very interesting patterns will turn out if you use multi-colored Moulin when painting. It is enough just to quickly wrap them with eggs and boil around them. After removing the thread, you will see that the eggs were painted in bizarre stripes.

Fabric pattern

Another interesting way to apply a pattern on the egg. For him you will need vinegar and a piece of unnecessary fabric. Let's proceed:

Watch the eggs into the fabric with a pattern.
We put them into the water, add 3 tbsp. vinegar.
Turn on the fire. We wait until the water boils, then cook another 10 minutes.
By readiness, we remove the fabric. On the eggs remain patterns that were on the fabric.

Thermal blinds

The easiest way to decorate Easter eggs is to stick on them the thermalclock. They are sold in stores, church shops. On the weld boiled eggs, put on the sticker and lower them into boiling water. Remove when the sticker sticks out.

Foil

If you have chosen this method, the only problem will find color foil. But you are unlikely to see the same design of someone else! Just wrapped with boiled eggs in foil. Try so that it does not sweat badly, lay down on the egg, without creating the bugs. You can stick something to the foil: bows cut out of colored paper, flowers.

Sugar Poodlers

These patterns can be applied both already painted eggs and easy. It is necessary to prepare sugar paste. To do this, mix the sugar powder (it is powder) with a small amount of water. The resulting mass should be thick and homogeneous. Type the paste into the confectionery syringe and draw them patterns. After leaving the eggs for a while so that sugar froze.

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Decorate eggs on Easter pattern with stencils

Stencils allow you to put any drawing on the egg. For this:

Cut the desired drawing from the tracing.
Moisten the stencil with water and stick it on the egg.
Secure it by wrapped with gauze egg, a bonor or any other one-photon fabric.
Paint the egg using any dye from the first partition.
After painting, remove the fabric and depart the stencil.

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Several tips how to decorate eggs for Easter

In conclusion, I would like to give a few tips that will allow you to add the final barcode to the ideal Easter eggs:

Before cooking, get the eggs from the refrigerator so that they take the room temperature, so they definitely crack.
Wash eggs before painting, then the color will fall smaller.
Sattail eggs with vegetable oil to give them shine.
If you want symbols in the egg on the egg, stick them to the plaster before painting.
Eggs in a cell can be obtained if before painting wrap them with any mesh material, whether it is stockings or a grid for vegetables.
If before painting, apply a drawing with wax shames on the eggs, then at the end of the process it will manifest.