I have sooo many fond memories of dyeing and decorating Easter eggs as a kid with my family. It was always so exciting to transform the white eggs into rainbow shades with those little dye tabs and reveal what markings we had made with the wax pencils before submerging them into the colored baths. While I am looking forward to starting that ritual again in a few years with our kids, it’s been a while since I made some Easter eggs for my adult self, and I thought it would be a memorable throwback to get into again this Easter season. Since the egg dyeing is fun, but pretty messy, we worked with our friends at Canon USA to share a different way to create these Easter eggs! I thought that trying the temporary tattoo egg route this year would be just the right amount of easy and cute, and boy was I right!
Supplies:
–temporary tattoo paper
–Canon PIXMA TS8020 inkjet printer
-1 dozen white eggs (hard boiled)
-cloth napkin or rag
-scissors
–Easter egg tattoo download
Print your tattoos onto your tattoo paper (follow the instructions to make sure the right side will be the side that gets printed on), and then cover your printed paper with the clear adhesive sheet in the tattoo paper kit. The new Canon PIXMA TS8020 is perfect for this project because it handles different materials so well, especially with its rear-loading feature.
Once your tattoos are printed and prepped, grab a small cup or dish of water and a cloth napkin or rag. Cut out your tattoos and trim down the white space on the edges so it’s as close to the tattoo design as possible.
Peel off the clear plastic front on the tattoo and place the tattoo printed side down onto a clean and dry hardboiled egg. Dampen the napkin or rag and place the wet rag onto the back of the tattoo and hold in place for 10-15 seconds, or until you can feel the backing slide off the egg.
That’s basically it! Keep adding your tattoos until all your eggs are decorated! For the “printed pattern” eggs, I would cut out each flower or leaf and attach them one at a time so I could place them where I wanted on the egg, but for the bigger bunny, cactus, and spring phrase, you can do those as one tattoo.
Seriously though, how cute are they!! Although the tattoos are meant for the eggs, I certainly won’t tell if you also put aside one or two of these cuties to put on yourself Easter morning. We would always play the “King Egg” game later in the day on Easter where you both hold an egg and crack the smaller pointed ends together and whoever’s egg didn’t crack was the winner—basically the Easter version of the Thanksgiving wishbone tradition I guess! Love that these are so easy to make and look so sweet as well! Happy decorating! xo. Laura
Credits//Author and Photography: Laura Gummerman. Graphic Design: Mara Dockery. Photos edited with A Beautiful Mess actions.
23 Comments
This is so smart! And un-messy!
Also, why is this the first time I’ve heard of temporary tattoo paper?? Mind. Blown.
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Wow! Soooo adorable! This is such a great, easy idea! And no mess! So cute, thanks!
I remember decorating eggs for easter as a kid and I would get so carried away shoving as many colours and as much glitter as I could fit onto a medium sized egg haha! I wish I had something like this as a kid, i’m sure my ‘delicate’ designs would have looked much nicer haha!
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Waaaw that is awesome! Beautiful!!
This is so cool and simple, I love it!
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What a cute and easy idea!!! Happy Easter!
This temporary tattoo paper is a revelation to me and these are some really cute designs.
that cactus though — so, so adorable! like other commenters said, i’m running out to get tattoo paper ASAP. how did i not know this existed? 🙂
My eggs need tattoos in their lives. They are all kinds of jelly hanging out in the fridge alone.
Ohh love an idea that isn’t so messy! And will add an adorable touch to a centerpiece!
These are so cute, so sad I saw the post a tad bit too late 🙁 This will still be perfect for next year, though!
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They are so cute! I need to try that next year 🙂
Your search for perfection is adorable.
Cool post!
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Wow, they are so creative and amazing 🙂
How cute! Hope u had a great Easter 🙂 I had tons of run rounding up the best Easter DIYs for my blog and trying them 🙂
Temporary tattoo paper is a revelation to me and these are some really cute designs.
wow nice and amazing
Really creative, no words to explain your talent
Looking delicious, I am going to make it at home. thank you for sharing it
Where are the adorable yellow cloth napkins from in your photos? Perfect for spring!
Great idea! Do you think this would work on the plastic fillable eggs? I’m hosting an egg hunt and wanted to put the kids names on their eggs so they are evenly distributed…
nice post. thanks for sharing
good work is done here. thanks a lot