I just found some old fingernail polish in the closet (left there by my daughter some 15 years ago) and decided to test to see if it still worked. What better place than an empty egg shell, and to mix it up with markers and other inks and glitter.
Author: wPeggs
Not an egg :)
Here is a christmas tree globe ornament decorated with white and colored polymer clay made with funeral flower petals. Keepsake.
Butterfly cane polymer clay and flower petal egg
Polymer clay and flower petals ground and kneaded into the clay, with butterfly using the same cane atop the egg. If you want to purchase this egg, find it HERE.
Easter eggs: 2018 – metal cross and euphorbia milii cane
This egg was made for a friend who has been a wonderful training coach for running the Flying pig marathon. Last saturday was the 20 mile run (day be fore easter this year – April 1). The metal filigree brass colored cross was purchased at michaels, which I bent and shaped to fit an egg. The euphorbia milii flower (two red petals and a yellow center) is called the christ plant and it carries a whopping number of ugly large thorns… actually an amazing number of thorns. It does grow in the middle east and perhaps (legend says) was the plant plaited into a crown of thorns. All i now is that whomever made that crown also got seriously injured.
These photos are not that great, but you can see the metal cross and the flower cane on the back… and the light yellow cane behind the cross had fluorescent yellow powder kneaded into it (btw the powder makes the clay a little less fun to work with…. it feels like baking soda had been added to prevent sticking… LOL) bit after just a few hours in the kitchen window… it did fluoresce in the dark.
Easter eggs: euphorbia milii – crown of thorns
It is this plant growing in the middle east that has the legend of being plaited into the crown of thorns, and actually is called the common name of the christ plant.
Easter eggs: euphorbia milii – christ plant
Same cane as previous easter egg from 2018. Different take. Polymer clay and empty egg shells. This one might be my favorite, since it has the two petal flower with red center in a large and a smaller version and i put the “thorns” in the green background. 
Easter eggs: euphorbia milii cane
Had a lot of fun with the euphorbia milii cane that i made for easter eggs this easter. Made two of them while listening to easter messages. Two petal red flower with yellow center is in the center of the round white cane. This egg and others were made from left over clay from memory-bead projects.
Flower petal spiral polymer clay cane egg
Each of the colored spirals has ground up flower petals in it… 
making this something of a memorial egg. I did several, and also for the nieces and nephew of the individual whom these honor. The names are seen in the flower petal polymer clay cane eggs made with some alphabet stamps.
Valentine egg: candy ropes and floral stamps and polymer clay
Valentine egg: candy ropes and floral stamps and polymer clay — this was such a fun egg to make and not that difficult. I began with an empty chicken egg and several twisted ropes of two contrasting colors of polymer clay. I dabbed on a little liquid sculpey to keep a couple of the heart outlines in place then cured the egg. I added more heart shapes and cured again, after all the stripey places were on i cut out sheets of polymer clay that fit the hearts, and stamped them with a old floral stamp i found lying around. then fit those cut outs into the hearts, tucking the edges down beside the cured two color ropes. After curing again, i punched out the inbetween egg shell and dissolved out the rest of the egg shell using vinegar (it took many hours and two changes of vinegar). I used triple thick clear and a little bit of black acrylic paints to “antique” the stamped areas.
To me it looks like candy…
Holey polymer clay rope egg abstract
I like playing with this technique of swirling ropes of polymer clay to cover objects… and I do love the oblate ovoid as a shape to use…and egg shells are pretty much “freebies” as a base. I this technique first on the internet and of course have come no where near mastering it, but it fits my style of art — the love of dimension and the desire to build 3D constructions. This egg differes from previous rope eggs in that I did NOT use a layer of translucent polymer clay as a base, but built the first row – rope and cured the egg, then added a second and third layer and cured it again. I used a tiny bit of liquid polymer clay underneath the ropes to help them stay in position on the egg while I worked. Finally I punched out the egg in the “empty” spots, sanded and digested out the calcium of the egg shell with two changes of vinegar bath over about an 8 hour period. The egg has a single coat of varathane, inside and out.
Just fun!. And an easy project to “come and go” from, not demanding to be finished in one sitting. My goal is to figure out how to keep the freshness of the color — pretty fresh here, though I did use mostly left over scrap clay, and add the flower petals or party glitter, to make these eggs remembrances and keepsakes — but keeping the clean look, which is difficult when the flower petals are added. I am looking around for items that will build texture. because this egg just has two… a pencil end and the edge of my knife. I did try a philips scredriver head but that didn’t work very well. I would like to find a hollow metal dowel. The thickness of the ropes is about 1/8 inch.