Category: Mixed media eggs

7 inch decorated polymer clay egg with flowers

This was an egg that I made before which is posted as a disaster and I spent considerable time trying to salvage the base. It is an interesting challenge to do polymer clay eggs over what is sold as “paper” eggs in the craft stores – which by the way may (often) have a plastic base that is just covered in a thin layer of paper. I am not sure why they dont disclose this from the beginning.  Anyway, this is the result of that salvage (i never give up on anything  ha ha).  There are two glass jewel droplets in this “dragon size” decorated egg. (not as big as an ostrich egg, but bigger than an emu egg)

6 inch sculpted dimensional decorated egg

Here is a very large egg that has been sculpted with polymer clay and a texture sheet (oddly enough textured with the top part of an eppendorf pipette tip holder from work — LOL) and flowers and leaves and rainbow colors. The clay contains particles of flower petals from an event (funerals, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, holidays, valentines day, etc, and can be made from your flowers to give it special meaning).  Eggs will each be unique, but will follow this particular pattern if requested from the “decorated eggs for sale” on this blog or my “memory-bead” website.

Textured 5 inch decorated egg – polymer clay

This egg was created over a paper egg (purchased in a local craft store – which btw sometimes is not just paper but has a plastic core or inner support which might have to be removed). The texture for the heart was created with the lid of a pipette holder (from the stash of recycling in the hallway at work) and it worked quite well.

I can create eggs like this using your flower petals to make it a more meaningful object, a remembrance of someone or some event that you wish to keep in your heart.

 

Little mandala flowers – multi-color decorated egg

This was so much fun to create. It has flower petals from weddings or funerals or anniversaries incorporated into the flowers (left over from my me This was so much fun to create. It has flower petals from weddings or funerals or anniversaries incorporated into the flowers (left over from my memory-beads.com business. This or one like it can be yours — personalized, you just send me your flower petals and choose the colors.

business. This or one like it can be yours — personalized, you just send me your flower petals and choose the colors.

Eggshell mosaic: 4.5 inch egg, multicolor

Egg shells were dyed with pysanky dye, then dried and crushed and assembled into an abstract floral pattern on an apparently plastic egg which I just happened to find inside a paper egg purchased from Hobby Lobby.  The paper egg exterior i used for polymer clay egg (shown here) and the inside, which was pitch black, seemed to be the perfect background for an egg shell mosaic.  This particular egg took me about 10 hours (perhaps an unreasonable amount of time to spend on any egg, SMH) but for me it is a relaxing and unwinding task. Maybe one of you will appreciate it and give it to a friend or loved one for easter.

 

Resin coaster made with my garden weeds

Getting flowers to maintain their color, shape and depth during the drying and/or dehydrating requires patience and special equipment (thats what the commercial businesses use). I just grabbed some of the common weeds from my own yard and my neighbors yards along the parkway and flattened them between pieces of paper towel and pressed them until dry under stacks of books.

This particular item was made with a left over and unwanted ring bracelet, kind of a brass color, that I could not figure out anything else to do with. I used packing tape to seal the back side, and poured just a thin layer of resin.

The plants i had dried I used some of that resin (before it cured) to just lightly coat the tops and bottoms of the flattened flowers, and when that cured, I organized them within the ring.  I poured one thin coat of resin and let that cure. BTW I also added some “seeds” from some of the weeds.

The next step was to remove the packing tape from the bottom, sand off the bumps and flatten as best i could, and then repour the final back-side coat of resin and let it cure.

The last step was to pour the top side…. before that coat I also sanded off the areas that stuck above the top rim before i poured the resin. I added a tiny bit of gold glitter to the last pour on the top.

It is kind of fun, but the flowers would be prettier if the colors had stayed.

FYI this is NOT an egg, though it is posted under the “egg” cateory.