How To Decoupage a Picture On To An Easter Egg

Here is an obvious question. "How do you decoupage a picture
or a scene onto an egg?" Obvious question, rarely answered.
Above you see a sweet example of this from a manufacturer
of Easter novelty.

Supply List:

• smallish dinner napkins in a pattern you would like to see on your Easter egg.
• egg (can be plastic or real)
• Mod Podge
• hot glue gun and hot glue to attach a ribbon on top of the egg

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Gently separate the layers of your dinner napkin. You will only be working with the printed one on top.
2. Measure the length of your egg and cut rectangular strip from the napkin or tissue paper to fit neatly around it. 
3. Now you will need to cut at regular intervals, slashes into your design. Notice how I do NOT cut all the way through the rectangle. (pictured below) I leave about an inch uncut. This uncut central part of the rectangle is the continuous, uninterrupted part of the design that wraps around the mid section of the egg. The larger your egg the wider this section will be. 
4. After cutting this napkin thus, apply Mod Podge to the surface of your egg and carefully paste down the napkin, starting first with the middle part of the design. The fringed parts of the napkin will overlap some but the design should be preserved for the most part. 
5. After cutting and gluing this first piece of the napkin, I then cut out parts of the design that I thought the most attractive from left over napkins and pasted these on the top and bottom parts of my egg where the design did not cover. This is because I used very large eggs for this project and my napkins were quite small and the wider, bottom half of my egg needed additional decoupage to cover it completely. 
6. In order for your eggs to look professional, you need to use very thin tissues for this project. This insures that the design will appear uninterrupted and hand painted. 
7. Also, I was very particular about the colors of eggs that I used for the design. Had I used dark blue or purple plastic eggs, this design would not be as attractive. The napkin is very thin and the colors will show through the glue and tissue, so be selective. The factory made egg above was yellow. The one below that I covered was pink.
8. After the egg has dried completely give it a final coat of Mod Podge.
9. Hot glue an attractive ribbon to the top of the egg if you wish to hang it.

See finished eggs with fancy pink dinner napkin decoupaged
on the plastic surfaces. You can use the same process on 
real eggs too!

Left, peal off the solid layers of napkin on the bottom; you won't need to include them in the 
process. Center, the napkin cut with fringe across the top and bottom. Right, different eggs, same
dinner napkin cut apart to give a alternative look.

See different applications of the same napkin design.

Decoupage Easter Eggs:

• Read more about this process here