Big Egg!! Not Easter!

Hi, everyone in blogland.

 

Firstly, I must warn you, there is a pics overload!

 

As in my title, this is a very big egg.

In fact, it is a real, empty Ostrich egg.

 

My Daughter and Granddaughter have just been around.

I showed them what I had done to it.

 

My Daughter said it was the most beautiful thing I had ever made.

I told her it was going on my stall to be sold.

She said that I was not to sell it and it would go perfectly in my bedroom.

So it is now sitting on my dresser in my bedroom.

 

I have had it for a couple of years and didn't know what to do with it.

My Brother-in-law made the stand for me and it has just sat on a shelf

in my craft room.

 

I then had a euricka moment on Wednesday and this was the result.

 

I had great fun doing it.

I first tore up loads of papers into smallish pieces.

Then I glued them all over the egg.

A covering of Gesso and assorted paints.

 

 

Using a glue gun, I stuck bits of lace very randomly and flowers, buttons

and also a few clay butterflies I had made.

 

I also cut some flourish die cuts and glued them on along with

wooden flowers and more butterflies, with sequins on.

At this stage it looked a mess!!

 

A bit of grunge paste and stamped text.

 

I love this Butterfly Flourish die from Wild Rose Studio,

 which I got from The Craft Barn.

They have loads of their stamps and dies, so check them out here. 

 

And then it suddenly looked ok!! 

 

Are you still awake?!!

This was a little out of the box for me but I loved doing it.

I am now onto another project,

that is all gessoed and waiting for my attention.

 

Watch this space. If it is c..p, I will let you know and hide it somewhere!

 

Thanks for popping in and I hope you liked my egg.

It's surprisingly heavy, even though it's empty.

 

Hugs,

Carolxx