egg-tastic finger-painting

I think I have mentioned it before, about my obsession with stationary and cards?! It's like I'm a paper hoarder and there's just no stopping me! :-) So, instead of buying Easter cards this year...I decided to go old school and do a little finger-painting to make my own (I like to have a few holiday cards on hand just in case of an emergency *wink).

So, if you're feelin like you want to get your fingers nice and dirty...go on and make these little notes to give to friends and family! :-) The kids would have a blast creating their own little finger eggs too!

All you need is:

-a few pieces of white cardstock bent into cards

-two or more "Eastery" paint colors

-a toothpick

-a plastic plate (but I didn't have one so I used wax paper?!--I know just go with me here ;-D)

First, take your paint and drop about 18-20 colors on your plate/paper...than sort of eye ball it and mix in different variations of colors (for ex: for the lighter pinks I did 3-5 drops of white on top of my pink) Mix each droplet with your toothpick (cleaning it off each time you mix a different drop)--

wow that sounds way more complicated than it is.

**in other words make 18-20 different shades of pink and purple! :-)**

    
Here comes the fun part...take your finger and with each shade of pink/purple (or whatever colors you chose) make a little egg fingerprint...

My palette got a little out of wack...I was mixing and testing all over the place--so feel free to get crazy! They're your cards anyway :-)

Lastly, I took the white paint and created designs on just a few of my little eggs...It just added that special Easter egg touch. However, on the other one, I didn't do any designs--I wanted that one to be more simple.

And here ya have it...pretty eggtastic indeed! :-)