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Cardboard egg decorated with beautiful mother-of-pearl effect paint
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It's hard to do this beautiful mother-of-pearl paint justice without seeing it first-hand. Here, the eggs are painted in changing colours and decorated with masking tape, feathers and tissue paper.
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How to do it
1 Prime first with white paint so that the transparent colours will shine through clearly. Allow to dry.
Pour out mother-of-pearl paint in two different colours that work well together.
2 Dab both colours on one part of the egg with a foam brush so that the colours can work their way into each other. Allow to dry.
3 Dab one colour of mother-of-pearl paint on the bottom of the egg. Allow to dry.
4 Take a couple of down feathers and cut off the stiff part at the bottom. Place them on the egg with the two colours wherever you like.
5 Attach the down feathers to the egg by placing a band of glitter masking tape all the way around the egg.
6 If you wish, you can stick a piece of thin metallic masking tape all the way around the egg in the centre of the glitter tape.
7 Cut 5 small circles of tissue paper with a diameter of about 7–8 cm.
8 Gather the circles in the middle to form a small rosette.
9 Glue 4–5 rosettes on top of the masking tape using a glue gun.
10 If you wish, you can use the bottom of a paint pot as a template for the tissue paper circles.
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