Easter began to celebrate long before the appearance of the tradition of Christianity in Russia. Traditionally festive table decorated with eggs. They are a symbol of life, the continuation of the genus and an integral part of the ancient Slavic traditions. At long-time legends, the Easter egg painted or painted. Now new and modern decoration techniques began to appear. Decoupage of Easter eggs - a spectacular way to make a holiday brighter.
Decoupage technique
Under decoupage, you should understand the traditional applique. On the decorated item, various parts of the image or pattern are glued, then the resulting pattern is covered with transparent varnish to save it. Napkins are sold in stores - this is the best material for decoupage. This technique is available to everyone who wants to make a festive table with bright and more joyful. Eggs decorated with Easter, please the relatives and guests on this light holiday. And the master class will help learn how to work in this technique.
Features of the application of technology
There are a lot of egg decoration options for Easter using this technique. For work, both ready-made boiled eggs and decorative blanks and even an empty shell are suitable. If in the future the symbol of the holiday, decorated in the decoupage technique, it is planned to eat, then you should not use the glue for sticking pattern fragments. Instead, you can use the usual egg protein, it has excellent binding properties. Also a great idea is to use a hubber cooked from starch.
If you need to paint the shell, it is better not to use any artificial dyes for this - the shell has pores and can pass inside various and, by no means, not useful elements.
Decoupage and napkhetki
Napkins for decoupage eggs for Easter are used in various, you can use both simple single-layer and special. The elements of the napkins and images are cut out with scissors, it is best to use thin scissors for these purposes. The correct choice of scissors is especially important when you need to stick the dark element of the image on a white shell.
Along with cutting decoupage, eggs also implies and pulling out - here the various elements of the image are torn by their hands, and the edges of these pieces give the decisive effect.
As for choosing an image, drawings with bright floral and spring motifs look good. It can be a variety of leaves, birds and anything. For children, they select the relevant images, and the decoupage of Easter eggs in the tradition of "Gzhel" will make it possible to give special uniqueness and sophistication of the festive table. To achieve an ideal result, you only need a little fantasy.
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Operation with egg protein
To decorate Easter eggs, you will need:
- Ready white chicken egg;
- one crude protein;
- Napkins (single-layer or multi-layered, color);
- scissors (perfect for this task manicure, it is convenient to cut small elements);
- Flat brush.
Before starting the decoupage of the egg, you should know several small secrets - with them the whole process will pass correctly and everything will be very beautiful. The protein that will be used instead of chemical glue is not recommended to beat. If the protein is still whisked, then bubbles can remain on the shell, because of which the entire application will have a not too neat appearance. The protein is stirred by a fork - it will not let him foam, but only breaks its structure.
Now you can go to the napkin: the bottom layer is separated if all the work will be performed with the top. This is relevant for multilayer napkins. The image is better to work in advance - the cuttings are applied to the shell and look, whether the surface is enough, whether the image fits completely.
It is worth considering that the larger size of the selected pattern or a separate item, the harder it is to work with it. Large elements are harder to glue exactly due to the round shape of the chicken product. With the help of the brush, the Easter egg is lubricated, decoupage in this case requires maximum accuracy.
The proposed protein layer can make the shell of very slippery, which increases the risk of split the egg.
An element from the napkin is applied to the lubricated protein and glue it either with hands or brush. From above, the element is also covered with protein - apply a layer neatly from the middle of the napkins to the edges. Working, it should be striving for not to hurt already glued pattern details.
When the image is completely ready, once again lubricate Easter eggs with protein. Decoupage on the surface must necessarily dry, and then one should once again be treated with protein until complete drying. At this stage, our master class is completed, the whole process can be done on the other eggs.
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Other binding substances
Easter eggs in the technique of decoupage are also decorated with a picture and glue on starch or gelatin using sugar syrup. The glue on gelatin is done simply: powder is poured with water in the proportions specified by the manufacturer, and is discharged, then the composition is fired and heated until the granules are completely dissolved. As for the technique of applying, it does not differ from technology with protein. This MK decoupage eggs can be confidently used with other adhesive substances.
Also often perform decoupage of wooden eggs, such a technique is somewhat different from the decoration of ordinary eggs with napkins. First of all, the wooden surface is grinning and ground into several layers. Well, on the basis of the napkin an image is applied, which is fixed with PVA and acrylic paint glue. Easter egg decoupage is beautiful, easy and exciting. And this lesson will like the children very much, because they love to show creative abilities very much.
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