Post-Easter Altered Eggs

I recently altered some real egg shells. I wanted to make my own Faberge' Eggs ever since I've seen one on tv when I was a child. By taking out the yolk and albumin, and using only the complete egg shell, I made my own egg art. Friends who saw these eggs, all of them scrappers, have been encouraging me to send them to a magazine for publishing. (Because I'm going to submit it for publication, I can't have the photos up yet. My apologies!) A few have asked me to make a demonstration as well. I'm hoping that the eggs do get accepted for publishing because they really are too pretty not to be shared. If possible, I'd like to write a "How To..." article even. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Artz de Scrap Happy Easter Banner

I've had these wonderful Grungeboard alphas which I haven't even used once! When the time came for us to come up with a banner, I just had to use the alphas. I used both the original and the textured stripe. To color it, I rubbed 3 different colored Colorbox stamp pads in Peacock, Peony and Moss Green, then stamped Inque Boutique See-D's Savoir Faire majestic Flight scroll with StazOn Black.

I cut egg-shapes out of tracing paper, rubbed Glimmer Mist Merlot at the sides using a cottonball. This gave the paper eggs more definition, making them look more 3-D. I also stamped the same scroll using Ancient Page Plum Wine stamp ink this time. to give the paper eggs some character. I also sprinkled clear glitter on it to give it some sparkle. After adhering the alphas, I punched 2 sides of each egg paper and attached mm Sky eyelets. To connect each egg, I used miscellaneous cloth flowers in purple and blue found in Kamuning. Each flower is attached to a wire which made it perfect as a decorative accent and as a connector to each paper egg. Pebbles ribbons in purple and light blue complete the look

To see the wonderful creations of the other DT and RD members of Artz de Scrap, please visit this site here.

Materials: Tim Holtz' Idea-ology Grungeboard Alphas (plain & stripe), Elit Tracing Paper, Tatttered Angels Glimmer Mist Merlot, StazOn Black, Ancient Page Plum Wine, mm Sky eyelets, Leeho glitter, Pebbles striped ribbons in purple and light blue, miscellaneous cloth flowers with wires. Stamp used: Inque Boutique See-D's Savoir Faire Majestic Flight scroll.

Techniques: Stamping, rubbing edges with Glimmer Mist, rubbing alphas with stamp ink, spreading glitter across stamped images.

Artz de Scrap Teaser

Here's a teaser for my Artz de Scrap tutorial take. Do head on to the Artz de Scrap blog http://artzdescrap.blogspot.com/. It will come out soon.

Happy Easter

This is Galo's first easter egg hunt when he was only a year old. Since Galo and his cousin didn't know how to hunt, we placed all the eggs in front of them. We excited parents just wanted them to have their first taste of opening the eggs and finding something inside. And since they also couldn't eat candies, we only had Jelly Ace inside. That was enough to make Galo happy. Journal was written on two of the eggs which were inserted into "pockets."