Make Decorative Washi Eggs: Can also be used as Christmas Tree Ornament

1. Hello & Welcome: Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing excellent. Today. I am erisa, an artist, photographer and a yoga instructor based in Manila. In this class, I am going to show you how to make a decorative Japanese washy, not watercolor painting. This time, you can use this washy eggs as decoration to accentuate your shelves. Can be a Christmas tree ornament, or you can simply give it as a gift to your friends. So join me in this class and let us explore the beauty of making Japanese washy eggs together. See you in the next class. 2. Craft Supplies: These are the materials that we need to make our washy eg, a fresh egg. I am going to show you how to empty and egg later. And in order to do that, we're going to use a needle. This is the biggest needle I could find in my sewing kit. A nasal respirator or a baby knows cleaner, pump. Good. Much budge for any traditional rice blue paste. As I have tried, you think that it works just as well? A paintbrush, a pen, sell a pair of scissors and a ruler. Now if you have a flexible ruler available, that's even better. A small container to put a small amount of the much fudge or the glue and a clear nail polish or any kind of sealer. L we are also going to be needing a what tripod to use for drying the egg. But obviously this isn't a tripod, but this Karl's work. But anyway, if you have that thing that holds the pizza together when you order a box of pizza. That is so perfect to you. This I used to collect that and I have this close friend of mine data collected a lot for me, but I don't have them with me here where I live in the moment. We will also need a piece of scratch paper or an office white paper to use when we measure the egg. And last but not the least, Washi paper. Over the years of living in a canal with Japan, I have quiets, collected a good amount of this unique paper. Japanese Washi papers can be used for crafting, DFT wrapping and some creative projects. I suggest however, to buy, which you can find online if they are ready, cuts into squares with different designs in one pack. 3. How to Empty Eggs: Let's empty the egg. Grab the needle, point it on the top of the egg. And using a spoon. Keep tapping the top of the needle ever so lightly until the tip of the needle goes through shell of the egg. Break some part of the shell to create a tiny bit of hole. Then repeat the process on the other end of the I insert thread through the eye of a needle because I push the needle all the way through inside the egg to break the yoke. Hits. So much easier to pull them all that way. Now we empty out the egg and you sing the national aspirate. It helps if you break the egg gets kept using the needle. I am going to speed up the video here while emptying the egg. To clean the inside of the egg. Simply put water inside, covering the other end of the hall with your index finger. And use the nacelle, a respirator to blow out the water. 4. Clean and Dry the Egg: As I showed earlier, I cleaned an empty egg by putting it under running water. Feel the egg with the water. I'm just fill it about a quarter and give it a little shake. Hands blow out the water using the baby knee, so aspirate. To dry the egg. You can just simply have it air dry. I normally wait for a day or two to totally dry it. But if you want to speed up the process, you can either just warm up the egg in an already preheated oven. Just make sure that your oven is already off and slightly open so you can closely watch your eggs too much, it will crack the egg. Another one that I use is a blow dryer. It's easier and it saves more electricity. 5. Measure The Eggs: So here I have a piece of paper and it kind of scratch paper that you have there with you will do the work. Now, if you have a flexible ruler, you can just directly measure your egg with it. Here, I cut about half an inch, one short and one long cards. We will use this kind of paper to measure the circumference of the egg. We do this to use to cut that rectangle out of the washi paper. Here I am measuring the height circumference of the egg. I always go for a little bit over in my measurement, just a tiny bit, about a quarter inch. I can always trim when it's long while gluing, but can totally patch it out if I somehow make it too short. Now, I am measuring the width, circumference of the egg. Trim, the excess paper on the measurement. And I will see you the next lesson to cut that rectangle out of the Washi paper. 6. Prepare Washi Paper: I am picking this pattern right here. Something green. This has a nice pattern right here with the fans. With the longest measurement. We fold that in half. Then we'll go ahead and measures and wash your paper. Now get the unfolded measurements for the length of the egg and the folded won. On the other side. There's a white border on the wash papers, so I am not including that on the measurement. I just cut it out later. Now grab the ruler, draw a line and me if both ends together to form a rectangle, cut-out Washi paper. Gets your scissors and cut the rectangle out of the Washi paper. I will see you on the next class to cut the washi paper into fences. 8. Cover the Whole Egg with Washi Paper: Now we are going to go to the wash your paper to the. We need a small container. So pour a small amount of glue and then that much fudge. I use a math kind of. And then an inexpensive brush. For a tiny bit amount of my charge onto the container. And in my case here it's my private. I will just use this access clear as I don't want to waste, I apply it on the middle part of the paper. Now make sure that you have a paper towel close to you so you can wipe your hand when needed. And now I grab the egg. One good thing about. I like using much fudge is it's slippery and for egg whites in down while I properly place the paper I am making sure here that I am adjusting the paper as needed. And making sure that points are meeting together. Like the end points of the fences. Now I want to start where the paper overlaps or at the ends of the cut. And as always, I like to start off by. You could start to apply the glue on the egg and on the paper. As you can see here, I am doing both applying glue onto the egg and onto the paper. Gently press them on the paper using your thumb or any finger that's comfortable for use. And then we go ahead and fold out the fences. Yes, pull them out. It's much easier to apply glue on the eggs, go around, glue each fence at a time and layer each down one at a time. I am going to speed up the video here in a bit while gluing. You know, aside from painting, I find this therapeutic, too. And I hope you will get the same calmness I get, if not more, when making the washing eggs. You can totally make this anywhere you go, even on the plane when you're having a long flight. Just make sure they have everything ready, like, you know, empty the egg and you have cart the paper ready. So all you have to do while flying, all while you're playing, is gluing, which of course, this process is the most therapeutic one among all the steps of making this washing act. So now you see this part of the egg showing. I am glad that this happened so that I could show you how we can cover that space. This is why also it's important that you keep or put aside first and not throw away the scraps left when we cut the paper into picket fences. Just fill the space where the small cut of the paper and continue on layering the rest of the fences. You may be wondering earlier, what's the Spanish is? I like using it to smooth out the egg, pressing really light. That way it won't be too much bubbles and creases. Now to cover the other half of the egg. I am going to speed up the video and really start pasting counter-clockwise. 9. Smoothen the Egg: Just as I showed earlier, I use the spoon to even up the paper, remove a bonobos, excess glue and Cresus. Just press really lightly. You can also do a circular motion. Have fun, and enjoy. 10. Apply the Sealer: Here's the finished washing egg. However, I am not going to put any sealer on this one as I normally wait for it to dry at least a day or two. So I am going to put this aside and use the one that I previously made. I use clear nail polish to see on my washy eggs. To be honest, this is the only medium I use in all of the eggs I did in the past. All the washy eggs that are in this fishbowl. I haven't encountered any problems like them sticking together. Even it has been shaped. Being inside the box of our household goods from our every move from country to country. And considering the humidity where I live at the moment, they're all good. I just make sure that I checked and dusk them from time to time. If you can handle the smell of that clear nail polish, go for it. You can, however, use any fixative or sealer spray on or brush on. I start here applying clear nail polish on the half of the egg, let dry and do the other half. 11. Class Project & Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me and taking the time to relax together. I really hope that you'd stayed in China, that you took something away from this class. It's great if you could share what you create. I cannot wait to see it. Please just share on the project section. And if you post it on social media like Instagram, please do tag me so that I can share your work and cheer you on. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the discussion section of this class. And I will get back to you as soon as I am able to help other students decide if they like to take this class as well. It will be much appreciated if you leave a review until next time. Thank you so much and I wish you joy and happiness. Bye.