Happy Easter, bored pandas! Two days ago we posted a list of 20+ Creative Easter Egg Decoration Ideas and according to your votes the winner is “Galaxy Eggs” by Allison Murray from Dream A Little Bigger. This is why we thought you might be interested in seeing the full tutorial showing how to make the Galaxy Easter Eggs.
Fun fact: yesterday after watching another “Modern Family” episode we found out that even Sofia Vergara has reposted our article.
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The result
First, paint your eggs with black acrylic paint
“You’ll need to grab some craft acrylic paints in tones of blue and purple PLUS black, white and gold”
“To keep all of the eggs from being too similar, I painted galaxies on some that were straight up black from the packaging. On others I swirled colors to give it a different look.”
“To make the swirled background, take any paintbrush with moderately soft bristles and smooth on your blue tones haphazardly. While these colors are still wet, dip your brush into the black paint and swirl the colors around.”
“Grab a cheapie sponge brush and start with your darkest color (mine is a teal) and then daub your next darkest blue on top. Allow to dry.”
“Onto your dry egg, daub purple and then pink on top of the existing blob of colors. Allow to dry again.”
“Take a different sponge brush and just BARELY dip it in the black. Lightly touch to the surface of the egg to add black speckles. Next lightly dip another sponge brush into the gold. Lightly daub the color on wherever you see fit.”
“Grab that white paint and put it into something small. Add a tiny amount of water to thin it out.”
“Grab that stiff bristled brush and hold in your hand with your thumb on the bristles like so…”
“Let go of the bristles and the white paint with splatter.”
“Be sure to speckle some white paint stars onto the rest of the egg that doesn’t have the galaxy painted on.”
P.S.: You can find the original tutorial on dreamalittlebigger.com