Half a Dozen Eggs Please

As I sat altering the eggs for this project it brought back childhood memories of Easter weekend when my Mum hardboiled eggs for us and then we would sit and alter them. I say alter but of course I had no idea that is what I was doing. We would all create funny faces on the eggs and then they would be packed away along with other items for a picnic. It is amazing how vivid those memories are, seeing who could roll their egg the farthest, running down the hill after the eggs to claim them. A pinch of salt sprinkled over the egg, an egg never tasted as good as it did on such days.
These days may well be long gone but here I am still altering eggs! This time the eggs are plastic.  The last time I altered an egg box was for a swap last year where little gifts were inserted into each recess. They are excellent for altering but if paint is being applied then Gesso definitely needs to be used, in the long run it results in less layers of paint and it also retains the true colour of your paint colour. I used Portrait Pink acrylic which has a peachy quality to it.
The stamping was done directly onto the box but it could as easily have been stamped onto tissue paper. Lace, flowers and crinkled ribbon added to create a handle.
Here are the eggs tucked inside the box, fitting exactly into each section.
As the eggs are plastic they required lots of preparation before the fun could commence. For all eggs I used only one chocolate related stamp from 7 Gypsies.
The eggs already came with a ribbon loop for hanging.
Using a mixture of lace,crinkled ribbon and lovely flat back pearls to embellish the eggs.

One day, as I was putting the finishing touches to the eggs I stumbled across a challenge that is taking place over at The Altered Paper , a vintage egg challenge.

The wonderful Cindy Adkins saw these eggs and mentioned Pink Saturday to me. So I am now also linking to Pink Saturday.