Jeweled Mosaic Faberge Style Egg, My Version-

Hello- and thank you for visiting my instructable on how to mosaic a Faberge style egg.

As you can see from my group photos, I recently made several Faberge style eggs as a mosaic challenge project using vintage broken rhinestone jewelry, antique and vintage buttons, vintage china, stained glass, fresh water pearls, vintage glass cabochons and beads on ceramic eggs.

With this entry I'll focus on my pink egg from the set and show how the focal jewelry pieces help to determined the color and flow of the piece. I never really have a set idea in mind; I simply start with the jewelry and move forward to the china or glass that catches my eye. As you can see in the steps to follow I have a huge collection of jewelry and china to choose from.

This pink egg is a favorite and is in my personal collection.

Please see notes in pictures.

Step 1: Choosing and placing your jewels-

I started with a vintage orphaned rhinestone earring, placed in the center of the front of the egg. This process takes a full day for the adhesive to set, so I do several pieces at a time.

As a general rule in my mosaic work, I don't worry too much if a rhinestone is missing from a jewelry piece, the grout will fill any holes, but, on this piece the jewelry is pristine!

Comments

[cfleury]

Beautiful egg! I love your step by step instructions they are great!!

[Grannysel]

I agree!

[bajablue]

Gorgeous!!!

[CarStalkerZ]

were do you get eggs from

[Faro]

Actually, I found the eggs at the Goodwill and haven't been able to find more. I've seen similar ones on ebay, butm they were not ceramic and they didn't stand up. The search is still on...

[idioskosmos]

I wanted to try your idea, but couldn't find ceramic eggs. I used wooden goose eggs (that stand up) from Michaels Craft store.

[rik3098]

tats beauteful

[eblisster]

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[sherbear65]

I know this comment is late, but I think your eggs are so beautiful I just had to comment anyway. Your creativity and skill is amazing.

[pixelinabitmap]

Lovely mosaics. You almost make it seem easy :)

[Faro]

Thanks so much for all the nice comments. I appreciate it very much.

[Carole B.]

Congratulations on being a Finalist. I read your Instructable the other night and I think your work is quite admirable. My Best Wishes to you. Carole B.

[kelllbelll]

Beautiful! Congrats on being a finalist!

[Seaside Mosaics]

Your eggs are one of my all time favorite mosaic projects! Just gorgeous!

[MailleEtc]

Beautiful egg and wonderful tutorial! Wouldn't you love to give a basket of these at Easter?!

[canida]

Neat! What adhesive do you use to attach the jewelery?

[Faro]

Hi Canida- I use weldbond. In step 3 (third picture details) I discuss the adhesive and offer a glimpse of the bottle in use.

[artful914]

Your work is so beautiful and precise! Your instructions are excellent and I'm now inspired to create an egg or two or three :)

[Faro]

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful input. I so appreciate you taking the time to read and participate.

[princesspeach]

Excellent concise instructions for your beautiful eggs.

[krazykatedesigns]

What an incredible finished product! Fascinating tutorial, thank you.

[pinkee]

makes me wanna break my dishes and make beautiful eggs! great job!

[geminimoon]

Beautiful eggs and very well written article on how to.