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Happy Easter – DIY Egg Suncatcher

March 21st, 2012

Easter has to be one of my favorite holidays. It symbolizes spring and reminds us of all the beautiful things nature has to offer. And there’s chocolate – lots and lots of chocolate! With Easter right around the corner, we thought what better way to celebrate than with a great sun catcher.

Egg Sun Catcher

Here are the supplies you will need to complete this project:

Regular computer paper
Vellum spring pack
Scissors
Glue (preferably a glue stick)
Pencil
Hole punch
Thin ribbon

We used our new vellum spring pack, available for purchase for only $1.78, for this project. Because this pack is so perfect, with the light pastel colors, we were able to utilize all 5 colors (Bashful, Wisteria, Pastel Blue, Pastel Green, Pink) for our sun catcher.

Spring Vellum Pack

Unless you are extremely steady with free-hand drawing, I suggest going online to find an egg shape to trace onto the vellum.

Note: The size of your egg sun catcher is completely up to you. It can be as small or large as you want!

Once you have the egg shape printed, select any color vellum you want. I chose the Bashful and Wisteria for my bases. Trace the egg onto the vellum with your pencil. For your egg, make up a design that you like or leave it plain. I chose to have three sections that give the effect of a painted Easter egg.

On a regular sheet of copy paper, I drew the full shape of the egg and my design so that I would be able to duplicate the design correctly onto the vellum sheets.

I traced the main outline of the egg onto the Wisteria and Bashful vellum sheets.

I took the Pastel Green vellum and traced the top part of the egg design, the Pastel Blue for the middle part and the Pink for the bottom.

After tracing the designs, I cut them out. Next, I pasted the Pastel Green, Pastel Blue and Pink onto the Wisteria egg cut out. Then, I pasted the Bashful egg cut out onto the top.