An Easter Egg

With Easter upon us, I was thinking about a project I did for a class a couple of years ago. I found some resin eggs that were designed with a peep hole like the old sugar eggs. DecoArt had just come out with a product called Liquid Beadz. This product consists of small beads suspended in a clear glue-like material. You apply it to a surface and it sticks. It is much easier than having to glue individual beads to a surface. This product comes in a variety of colors. Some are single colors, some are a mix of several colors, and they have a clear bead as well. My plan was to use the clear Liquid Beadz to make the resin eggs look like the old sugar eggs.


Like many a good idea, this one was not as easy as it appeared on the surface. The first step was to paint the egg. These resin eggs were the very devil to paint. They did not accept the paint well and it took three coats to get acceptable coverage. then I painted little daisies over the basecoat--that was the easy part. Finally, the Liquid Beadz were applied. It took two full jars of the Beadz to cover this little 4-inch egg. They were applied with a craft stick and because the surface was not flat, they slid all over the place. They had to be applied in several steps in order to cover the whole egg. When it was all finished, I put some nesting material and a tiny chick inside. As you can see from the photo, it does have the look of a sugared egg. The clear beads allow the design on the surface of the egg to show through. I think I also piped some texture medium around the opening when it was completed so that it looked like Royal Icing, but I do not have a picture of that step. The egg has disappeared.

This is an example of where your imagination can take you if you think out of the box. The Liquid Beadz product is still available and there is also a Fabric Beadz that you can use to embellish fabrics. These products work best as embellishments and on flat surfaces, but use your imagination and who knows what you can come up with.