An Easter egg is easy to draw as an outline and provides innumerable possibilities for design and color. Individual designs can be used in conjunction with foil, glitter or micro beads.
An Easter egg design can be produced by freehand drawing or tracing around a real egg on white paper. You can photocopy your Easter egg in various sizes and place the designs on acetate to highlight them in different colors and mount them over white embossed paper, held in place at the spine with cord. Variations on the same egg theme can feature Easter eggs mounted behind apertures, while another design idea is to mount a glitter-enhanced Easter egg with red brads.
- Draw or trace the outline of your Easter eggs. Cut around each egg with a small pair of scissors, leaving a narrow margin. You could add a rub-on Easter message to the front of the acetate to personalize your Easter egg card.
- Place the folded acetate on a cutting mat, aligning it with the mat grid and the edges of the mat. Take one Easter egg shape and remove the backing paper, leaving the transparent top layer in place. Place it on the acetate, using the grid or the edges of the mat as a guide. Press down all over the Easter egg shape with your finger.
- Carefully remove the transparent top layer from the Easter egg shape, taking care not to touch the shape at this stage. Place silver foil over the Easter egg, with the silver side uppermost. Wrap clean kitchen paper around your finger and carefully press down on the silver sheet of the Easter egg.
- Carefully peel away the foil, and as you do so, the Easter egg design will adhere to the foil. Repeat with the remaining Easter eggs. It is easier to do each Easter egg at a time rather than three in a go.
- Fold a 6 x 12in sheet of white embossed card and place it inside the acetate. Place this on a foam pad. Using a tapestry needle, pierce a hole in the spine 2in from the top and bottom edges through both the card and the acetate.
- Thread a 12in length of cord from the inside through each hole and tie in a reef knot in center of the spine of the Easter card. Secure the ends of the cord with adhesive tape or bind with gold thread to prevent them unravelling.
Alternatively, you can use narrow ribbon instead of cord – cut two slits in the spine to match the width of the ribbon.
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