Easy Decorated Easter Eggs

My mom always decorated for Easter so it’s a family tradition to craft up eggs and have Easter grass coming out our ears around this time.    This is an easy project that uses Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza’s, Mod Melts (made by Plaid).  Mod Melts are DIY embellishments along with some ready to go Easter eggs from JoAnn Fabrics.  They have the glittery and satin finish eggs there in pretty pastels.  You can find the Mod Melt sticks and molds at Michaels Craft store.  You’ll also need a skinny stick, high temp glue gun (has to be high temp or else the sticks don’t get hot enough to flow into the molds).

Wrap a bit of ribbon around the egg (I knew there was a reason I was saving this pile of pretty ribbon scraps.  Craft supply hoarders unite!).

Secure the ribbon to the egg with hot glue and push it down with your finger protected by a Hot Glue Gun Helper finger cap.

Then trim the ribbon to fit and glue the end of ribbon down.

Add some metallic buzz with Martha Stewart metal ribbon–found in the decoupage/stencil section of the craft store at Michaels.  It comes in gold, gunmetal and rose gold.  I really like it.

By now your hot glue gun and Mod Melt stick should be ready to fire!  Fill the mold and let set for 5 or ten minutes.  The hardest part in this project is waiting for these suckers to cool so you can see how awesome they are.  Tic toc… tic toc…

Sponge on some color by applying paint to a dobber and blotting it over the mod melt piece.

You can add further sparkle and layers with Dress It Up craft embellishments–usually found in the scrapbooking section of the craft store.  These things are like craft candy!  You can’t use just one.  Use a glue gun to glue the embellishments to the eggs.

Ta da!  Never mind that craft explosion in the background!  That’s one of my other magic tricks.  I can take a clean table and trash it in 3.4 minutes flat.

Here they are!  Such cuties!  I’m really loving paper Easter grass this year too.  It’s so soft and natural looking.  I don’t over think these things or anything.  Can you tell?

Last week, our local Crafty Book Club met and I taught them how to use the Mod Melts with Hot Glue Gun Helpers.  The ladies liked them a lot and had fun experimenting.  This is our 4th year for making Easter eggs together.  It’s another great tradition!

XOXO.

Candie