Things You Will Need
~KOI Watercolors: 12 or 18 color Travel Sets or Tubes for older
artists (*Sakura of America)
~KOI Water Brush: comes with travel sets or sold separately in
3 round sizes (*Sakura of America)
~Decoupage medium (such as Mod Podge or Aleene's Instant Decoupage)
~Large and standard sized plastic eggs
~Plastic caps (lids), the screw-on type for open mouth water bottles.
~Sculpey III oven-bake clay-specific color names & numbers listed below (**Polyform Products)
~Paper towels
~Basket with a handle, & fairly straight sides so clay will easily adhere
~Cookie sheet covered with foil or cooking parchment paper
~E6000 or Goop adhesive (Eclectic)
~Large flat glaze brush (paintbrush)
~Scissors for kids
~Mini rick rack trim or strong narrow ribbon
~Two same thickness emery boards or paint popcicle sticks etc.
~Table knife dedicated to clay use or dull craft knife
~Premo Mini Metal Cutters (**Polyform Products)
~Fancy wavy edge scissors (Fiskars)
*The Sakura of America website (famous for Gelly Roll pens) contains
info and project ideas, as well as other great products, visit the
Easter Egg Shibori Decorated Paper Instructions
1. Fold a paper towel in half and then into a round fan fold (like
making a paper airplane). Follow the steps in the diagram and
then repeat steps 2-4 to fold the right side of the towel the same.
Any type of fold will work such as a regular fan fold,
triangles, or various origami folds (see samples below).
2. Place folded paper on an old plastic placemat or plastic and
add color areas with the Water Brush dipped in watercolors.
The colors will lighten when dry so use lots of color. When the
paper is dry, trim into a circle shape with scisors.
TIP: The harder you squeeze the Water Brush the more water color comes out.
Overlap colors that will blend well together such as: yellow and
green, blue and red, orange and yellow, purple and red etc.
Use enough watercolor to saturate all the way through the folds.
3. Open the paper towel very slowly and gently so it doesn't tear.
Allow to dry flat or hand from pant hangers. Now, carefully separate
the two layers of the towel. Most have two very thin layers so keep trying.
4. Using a flat paintbrush, apply decoupage medium to the bottom
(larger) half of a large egg and place it in the center of the paper
design. Press paper onto glue pulling it up towards the top of the
egg. Now, reach the paintbrush down in the paper and coat the
top half. Pull the paper to the top and pinch it, pressing the
gathers flat against the egg.
5. Tie trim around the pinched area and into a bow. Trim the top
paper edge with scissors so they are even and fan it out like an
open flower. Let the glue dry.
To make the candy look medium eggs:
1. Follow steps 1-3 above, then, apply decoupage medium to the
center of the egg. Cut the paper towel so that it is 2" longer
on both ends and the width will wrap around
the egg and overlap
1/2".
2. Lay the egg on the paper and wrap it around the egg center. Place
some decoupage medium (glue) under one edge and secure over
opposite paper edge.
3. Reach the paintbrush down in the paper and coat the top and bottom
egg areas. Pull the paper to the ends and pinch it, pressing the
gathers flat against the egg.
4. Tie trim around the pinched areas and into a bow. Trim the edges
so they aer even with scissors and fan them out like open flowers.
Let the glue dry.
TIP: I used a cupcake holder to display the large eggs (see top of page). To make
them stand up, place a water bottle cap inside the cupcake sections
first. You can even use 3-D glue dots to glue the caps to the eggs
and to secure eggs to the display. Or just arrange
in a basket for a nice centerpiece.
Clay Basket Accent Instructions
1. Knead and squish 1-2 cubes (depending on basket size) Granny Smith (#1629)
green Sculpey III clay until is workable. Tape two emery
boards or popcicle sticks, 3" apart onto a smooth
ceramic tile. Flatten the clay to the stick thickness with
roller tool.Press clay in between the sticks until it is
as thick as them.
2. Cut blades of grass, one with point at the top then right next to
it another with the fatter end at the top (which is the same cut).
Separate them slighly, placing them on the foil/parchment paper
covered cookie sheet (or large ceramic tiles). Repeat for
remaining grass blades. I used 3 blocks of clay for this extra
large basket.
4.Bake and cool the grass blades as directed on the clay package
and glue them to above the basket's bottom ridge with E6000 or Goop
adhesive. Prop basket as you work so grass dries before
rotating basket.
5. Roll out 1/2 cube of Yellow (#072), Violet (#515) and Spring Lilac (#1216)
onto a tile. Cut a large egg or oval shape from each. Carefully
lift an egg shape and cut off a top and bottom section with wavy
scissors. Repeat for the remaining 2 eggs and switch
the color sections.
6. Roll out 1/4 cube of Violet, Just Orange (#1634 ) and Hot Pink (#503).
Add mini shape decorations to the eggs using Premo mini metal
cutters and strips cut with wavy scissors. Bake the eggs as directed
on package and alow to cool completely.
7. Add a little water to white paint and brush onto part of an
egg. Wipe off excess iwth paper towel for a chalky look.
8. Glue eggs over leaves on the front of the basket at slight agles
(see photo above "Clay Basket Instructions").
Enjoy arranging Shibori eggs into baskets or on a display stand.
