April 9, 2014

In the same family as the gold-dipped easter eggs is the metallic easter egg. I used a different type of paint for these, however- coloring a whole egg with a paint pen like I used on the gold dipped eggs would have taken forever. The effect would have been more solid than what I did generate, but I like the slight transparency of the craft paint that I used on these eggs.

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1.) As usual, either blow out or hard boil your eggs first.

2.) Choose a color palette! With these ones, I used all metallic colors: silver, gold, platinum, copper, and a gold glitter. I really like these paints- I purchased them at Home Depot originally but you can get them on Amazon here.

metallic paint

3.) Make a set up for yourself that allows you to paint 1/2 the egg, and then let it dry. Here is a great way to do this, courtesy of Martha Stewart:

http://www.marthastewart.com/893174/glittered-easter-eggs

image from Martha Stewart

4.) Paint length-wise down the egg, meeting your brush strokes at the crowns of the egg.

5.) Wait for the paint to dry, then flip the egg and get the other side of it.

6.) Display!

metallic easter egg

I haven’t seen any great examples of metallic eggs out there like these. I chose to paint mine by hand because I really like the look of the slightly transparent brush strokes.

Here are a different style of metallic egg; still cool:

http://missrenaissance.com/category/easter/

from Miss Rennaissance

Want to know how to make gold dipped easter eggs?
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Published April 9, 2014 | By