Gilded eggs
Smile on Saturday" and "painted/painting eggs"
I gilded the red-painted eggs with gold leaves. I really struggled because the leaves are so thin that they almost have no weight, the slightest movement of air moved them, and at the gentlest touch they split and stuck to each other. I coated the egg with egg white and then placed the gold leaf over the egg. When I finished the gilding, I coated everything again with egg white, which fixed the gilding so that not everyone who takes the gilded egg would get golden fingers like mine now. In essence, it is done similarly to decoupage, only that it is much easier to work with napkins (no matter how thin they are), but the effort is worth it because in the end the eggs looked beautiful.
This was a test, and for Easter I will make more of them and definitely take pictures.
HSoS!
Happy Easter!
Gilded eggs
Smile on Saturday" and "painted/painting eggs"
I gilded the red-painted eggs with gold leaves. I really struggled because the leaves are so thin that they almost have no weight, the slightest movement of air moved them, and at the gentlest touch they split and stuck to each other. I coated the egg with egg white and then placed the gold leaf over the egg. When I finished the gilding, I coated everything again with egg white, which fixed the gilding so that not everyone who takes the gilded egg would get golden fingers like mine now. In essence, it is done similarly to decoupage, only that it is much easier to work with napkins (no matter how thin they are), but the effort is worth it because in the end the eggs looked beautiful.
This was a test, and for Easter I will make more of them and definitely take pictures.
HSoS!
Happy Easter!