Create a beautiful centrepiece for Spring or Easter using eggshells, old wax and foliage!
It’s not feeling quite so Spring-like at the moment but just a couple of weeks ago it really felt like it was in the air. It made me want to change up my decor and so I put away the wintry foliage on the mantlepiece and stairs, and I bought these lovely artificial white tulips. They look pretty realistic and I’m allergic to everything so it’s really nice to have the fresh flower feeling without the itchy eyes. I’ve seen a lot of eggshell DIYs and crafts over the years, and have in the past used them as a mould for these plaster egg ornaments, but this time I really wanted to use the shell themselves. I wanted to use this lovely dish a friend bought me a few years ago, alongside some leftover foliage from the wedding, and this is what I came up with. I think it’s so cute and is perfect as a centrepiece on my coffee table next to my tulips. What do you think? If you love this as much as me, don’t forget to follow me on instagram and subscribe! Keep reading for the step by step guide…
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First of all, I used my egg for something delicious and afterwards washed the egg shell out and left it to dry.
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Next, I grabbed the dish I wanted to use and traced around the bottom of it onto a piece of cardstock I had previously painted with a beige tester paint.
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I then cut this out, making sure I cut it slightly smaller, using scissors.
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I then used a folded piece of tape to stick this temporarily to the bottom of my dish. I decided to do this so that I can reuse my dish again in the future for other things.
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I then grabbed some super glue and contact adhesive and stuck my egg shell into the centre of the dish on the cardstock.
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Once this was dry, I cut off some artifical foliage leftover from my hen party and wedding, and carefully placed these around the egg shell. I played around with these until I was happy with how it was looking.
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I then used super glue to stick a candle wick to the bottom of the egg shell and used dowels to hold the wick up vertically.
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I keep a bag of old wax collected from used candles for moments just like these. I grabbed some white wax and slowly melted this before carefully pouring it into the eggshell.
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Once my wax had cooled down an set, I removed the dowels and trimmed my wick.
