{ Personalized Clay Easter Eggs ---A Tutorial }

Here is the tutorial I promised for making these stinking cute eggs. 

I will add tips to the bottom of this post that I found helped me out while making these. 

Thanks to my girl's Kim & Nanette for egging with me! ;)

Supplies you will need:

clay

smooth cup to roll out clay

knife

rubber letter stamps

sharpie

tin foil

3 inch peat moss cup for the pail

you can get these in any garden center. I got a pack of 14 for $1.50

ribbon

office hole punch

Click on the pictures to enlarge them

my egg's were about 1 1/4 inches long

Tips:

 1. What clay did I use? Sculpey Clay.

2. To Make the Robin Egg Blue Color; 

Mix a lot of White clay with a little Cobalt Blue & a tiny amount of Yellow. I rolled my eggs out with a solid plastic cup.

photo from: http://www.polymerclayweb.com/eggs.asp  

3. After wrapping the foil to help smooth out the clay (remove finger prints) set the egg aside and let it cool as the heat from your hands makes it a little too soft. After a few minutes you should be able to smooth out the clay by running your fingers along the length of the egg. If you find you have foil showing just add a little ball of clay over that spot and smooth out or remove and start over. I had to start over a couple times......

4. Stamping the egg: 

Again, let it cool a little and using any rubber stamp lightly stamp each egg. I found that the stamp needed to be a little wet, so I used a wet wipe and just stamped on it - then stamped the letter on the clay. It will help the stamp NOT STICK to the clay.

5. Before baking it's a good idea to pierce it with a pin in a few inconspicuous places. This allows a way for trapped air to escape during baking. Sometimes it will form a mole like shape as the air has no where to go, yes I had this happen to some of my name eggs and I can tell you 

YOU DO NOT WANT A TUMOR ON YOUR EGG!

 (I didn't do this on all my eggs but better to be safe then sorry) You can speckle your eggs with a little watered down brown Tole paint & an old tooth brush and the tiny pin holes will blend in with the rest of the speckles.

6. Coloring in the letters: if you happen to goof like I did and accidentally get sharpie "outside" the lines. Take a tiny piece of FINE GRIT sandpaper and sand it ever so lightly off. You can use any color Sharpie, I wanted to use brown but I only had a fine tipped Black pen.  

7. To make the Pail:

I use a Peat Moss Pot from Wal-Mart, filled with what ever filling you want then using a handheld office hole punch, punch 2 holes in the sides of the pot and add some ribbon for the handle. 

Inspiration for these eggs came from here. 

Here are eggs I did for my family: 

If you have any other ?'s feel free to email me.

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