Feature Friday- Beaded Faberge Egg Tutorial
A unique take on Faberge Eggs, this simple process of glue and beads turns a regular chicken egg into a beaded work of art! These Beaded Faberge eggs can be great decorations for Christmas or Easter depending upon your mood!
I have been making Ukrainian eggs for over a year now. But my dealings with decorating eggs have far preceded the Ukrainian eggs. About five years ago, I wanted to come up with something original for the ornament club and the idea of Faberge eggs came to mind. Of course, I’m wanting to make something fabulous and as usual, I have a dollar store budget. But frankly, I’ve never let that stop me before. So with a bunch of seed beeds, ribbon and acrylic paint, I came up with these:
They were a big hit. So now, I would like to re-create just the beaded part of the egg and leave the painting for other projects. After all, I’ve learned a whole lot about dealing with eggs in the past year and now I have tricks. Tricks, I tell you.
For this project, I used:
Chicken Eggs
Narrow Gold Ribbon
Narrow Blue Ribbon
Seed Beads
Hot Glue
Aleene’s Tacky Glue
1/2″ Gold Ribbon
Let’s start by dealing with that egg. Back when I made the original eggs, I blew them out the old fashioned way. That would be by using a thumb tack to puncture both ends of the egg, stirring up the yolk with a toothpick, and blowing out the egg, turning blue in the process and totally grossing myself out. Not that I don’t like eggs, but cooking them is preferred. Just saying.
This method, while effective, can result in quite a few egg disasters and usually took more than one attempt and a large amount of eggs.
Then I found this. You can buy it on line for about $8.00 and it lasts forever. I’ve probably blown at least 100 eggs with this one.
Use the little green handled drill to make a tiny hole in the bottom of the egg. Insert the needle to break up the yolk. Pump air into the egg with the hand-held bellows and needle. The air then forces the material out of that tiny hole. After completely emptied, pour water into the bellows and flush out the remainder of the egg. I purchased mine through All Things Ukrainian.
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Now that we have the eggs prepared, set up your workstation. Because eggs have a bad habit of rolling around, I use a small muffin tin to sit them in while I am working with them. This makes a great drying station.
Take your narrow ribbon and glue onto your egg using the hot glue. Wrap around the egg lengthwise to mark off four equal sections and then once around the middle. You will end up with eight sections.
Now use a pencil and make a design. Any design will do. I did find that the less elaborate designs seem prettier. But that is just me. I made each of my sections a repetitive design, but there is no law that says you have to.
Now, using the tacky glue and a toothpick, add glue to the section where you would like to apply a certain color bead.
Then holding the egg over a bowl to catch loose beads, shake your beads over the section of glue to coat.
Tap off the excess beads and carefully push any beads that stray into the proper position. Repeat for other sections of the egg.
You will probably want to work on more than one egg at a time, allowing the glue to dry before moving onto other colors.
Once the eggs are fully beaded, add a bow to the top. I just wrapped ribbon around my fingers until it looked like a pretty bow and then hotglued it on. Nothing too fancy.
And there you go! You will find that the eggs are much less breakable with the addition of all that glue and beads. And they sure look pretty on the tree.
Very neat description. Thank you.
hi i’m visiting for the first time. of course i was interested in these eggs because i’m a beader. i make pictures out of beads. very time consuming. so i saw these but thought not looking right..sorry, but i followed your directions but used glitter instead of beads. they came out beautiful. i sprayed them with clear paint when i finished them. everyone loves thank you for the idea.
wooow this is cool , and thank you for the great tute. Awesome idea , but i think i’m too impatience. At first i thought you used not a real egg but those fake ones.
I’m really flabergasthed of this.
thank you for the sharing;-D
Hi Mary,
That is a great idea! An even cheaper method would be to use plastic Easter eggs. I tend to use real eggs simply because I have such a large supply of them.
suzy
Couldn’t you use styrofoam eggs in place of the real egg shells, just make sure the glue you use in compatible with the styrofoam. That would make them unbreakable and they would last for years.
Beautiful ornaments!!
How gorgeous are these and they will look fantastic on your Christmas tree. Very delicate to begin with but the beads and glue would certainly make them stronger. Thanks for sharing.
These are impressive! I'd love for you to link up on my blog:
http://singingthreelittlebirds.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-ornament-link-up-singing.html
Those are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
cute! I love them!
These are fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
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-Amanda
Wow these are incredible !
These are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.
Oh my! These are just absolutely amazing and gorgeous beyond belief! WOW! Thanks for linking to tickled pink!
Holly
504 Main
Those are beautiful! So much love and time… Great job!
These are so lovely! I can't believe that these are handmade. Great job! Visiting from Polly wants a Crafter
Fabulous eggs!
Just wanted to let you know I featured your pine cone gift baskets on my round tuit post this week!
http://jembellish.blogspot.com/2010/11/round-tuit-24-and-day-14-of-45.html
Thanks so much for linking up! Hope you have a lovely week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
these eggs are wonderful! Don't know if I have the patience for this project, wish I did because I am sure they look wonderful on a Christmas tree. 🙂
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Jen @ My Secret Home
Fabulous but so much work, think I will stick to quilts……….
These are beautiful. Thanks for the invite to the link party!
Suzy, you rock my world. These are so beautiful, and the process doesn't seem nearly as scary as I thought it would be.
Very unique!! I love making eggs but I usually just do them around Easter…I'm kinda weird like that..the Holidays just get me motivated and then I want to go "Wait..I should have started this project over a month ago" LOL
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Regi
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Those are beautiful! You're very talented. Visiting from Design it Chic's blog hop!
Valerie
occasionallycrafty.blogspot.com
Oh my gosh you have some patience! These are gorgeous! Thanks for linking up to my "Open House"!
These are fabulous – they really do look like jeweled eggs. I'm way impressed! Wonder if you use these as decorations on your Christmas tree or for more special ornamentation? Either way, they must look just splendid!