Trang trí bình hoa bằng những quả trứng xinh

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Materials

Nguyên liệu:

• Egg templates: Vỏ trứng
• Paper (in a solid color, no thicker than construction paper): Giấy (giấy trong, không dày hơn giấy xây dựng)
• Transfer paper: Giấy đồ
• Ballpoint pen: bút bi
• Small scissors: kéo nhỏ
• Mod Podge: keo dán
• Gel-ink pen: cọ chấm keo dán
• 1/8-inch-wide silk ribbon: dây rubon
• Sewing needle: kim may

Steps

1. Step 1

   Dye blown-out eggs using our instructions as desired. Let dry.

2. Step 2

   Lay paper (solid color, no thicker than construction paper) for silhouettes faceup on work surface. Lay a sheet of transfer paper facedown on silhouette paper. Place template printout on top; trace character outlines with a ballpoint pen.

3. Step 3

   Cut silhouettes along transferred outlines using small scissors.

4. Step 4

   Coat back of 1 cutout with Mod Podge using a small brush. Apply cutout to egg; smooth using tip of brush handle. Let dry. Repeat, adding cutouts as desired.

5. Step 5

   Apply Mod Podge to entire egg with a medium brush. Let dry. (For place cards, write names on finished eggs' silhouettes with a gel-ink pen.)

6. Step 6

   Thread a 10-inch length of 1/8-inch-wide silk ribbon through the eye of a long needle.

7. Step 7

   Insert needle in bottom hole of blown-out egg; draw it up through top hole. Leave a hanging loop at the top, and draw needle back down through top and bottom holes.

8. Step 8

   Knot ribbon 2 to 3 times near bottom hole (make sure knot doesn't slip through the hole). Trim ribbon ends.

9. Step 9

   Hang eggs from quince or other spring-blooming branches that are secured inside a vessel weighted with stones.