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Easter holidays
March 20, 2017

Beautiful floral Easter eggs {using tattoo paper}

I have one more Easter egg decorating tutorial for you today: gorgeous floral eggs. These are some of the prettiest eggs I’ve ever seen, and they are so easy to make! No dye, no mess, no artistic talent required. Just a page of free printable watercolor flowers and a secret weapon: temporary tattoo paper.

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

Also see: easy watercolor Easter eggs using tissue paper

You and your kids can make these pretty eggs in minutes. Remember those temporary tattoos from childhood? The ones where you peel off the plastic, press the tattoo paper down on your skin and then get it wet to transfer the image?

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

Well, that’s all you have to do to make these pretty watercolor flower eggs.

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

I have a free printable page for you with lots of floral designs and a couple of cute Easter quotes:

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

I’m going to give you all the details and instructions in just a second, but check out a few more pretty pictures first:

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables. These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables. These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

Okay, here’s what you need to make these pretty floral eggs:

Temporary tattoo paper: I ordered this from Amazon. It comes with 2 sheets of tattoo paper for about $9. Depending on how many designs you put on each egg you can decorate 12-18 eggs with one sheet of tattoo paper.

Floral designs download: Just click that link to get a printable PDF of all the designs I used on my eggs. The watercolor florals were created by SmallHouseBigPony, an Etsy seller, and used here with permission. Visit her shop for lots of absolutely gorgeous digital clipart!

Hard boiled eggs (large or extra large)

Water + dishcloth

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

Ok, this is what the temporary tattoo paper looks like out of the package. There are 2 white sheets, which you print on, and 2 green sheets, which are the adhesive. You want to download the designs above, and then print them out at 100% on the glossy side of one white sheet. I recommend doing a test print on a normal piece of paper since you don’t want to make any mistakes on the tattoo paper.

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

Once you’ve printed the flowers, let the ink dry for a couple of minutes. Then continue with the steps shown below:

1 – Grab an adhesive sheet and start to peel away the green part, revealing the plastic backed adhesive. Place the adhesive sticky side down onto your floral sheet. 2 – Use a credit card to smooth the adhesive sheet down on the flowers. Go over the sheet a couple of times. 3 – Use scissors to cut around each tattoo. 4 – Peel the plastic backing off one of the tattoos. 5 – Place the tattoo face down on an egg. 6 – Cover the tattoo with a damp cloth, gently pressing the tattoo down to fit the curve of the egg. After 10-15 seconds, the paper should come off easily, leaving the tattoo on the egg.

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

VIDEO

Pretty nifty, right? Here’s a video that shows the entire process:

 

More Tips

First – DO NOT use super cold eggs straight from the fridge. The tattoos will not adhere. We hardboiled some eggs, let them cool to room temp in cold water, then dried them and applied tattoos and it worked great. I refrigerated a couple extra eggs and tried adding more tattoos the next day when they were straight out of the fridge: no go. If you’re using eggs from the fridge you can let them sit in warm water for a few minutes to bring them to room temperature before adding tattoos. (If you’re planning to eat the eggs, you might want to boil, cool to room temp, decorate, then refrigerate right away as opposed to chilling, warming back up, and chilling again.)

Next –Be sure not to slide the tattoo around once you’ve applied it to the egg, or you can smudge the design.

Finally – Temporary tattoos are made for flat surfaces and eggs aren’t flat, so you may end up with a few wrinkles in your designs once applied. After you take the paper backing off, you can use the damp towel to smooth down any wrinkles on the egg so they are less noticeable.

These are the prettiest Easter eggs I've ever seen! Plus they're so easy, kids can make them - you use temporary tattoo paper! Click over for the free printables.

One last thing – you can print anything you want onto your tattoo paper to make Easter eggs. Click here for a free printable to make LEGO eggs. Just remember that if you aren’t using my free printable, you’ll want to reverse your images before you print them. Happy Easter!

looking for a unique and easy alternative to dying eggs? Try this fun, easy technique for making LEGO mini fig Easter eggs

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  1. Lesley says

    March 22, 2017 at 9:43 am

    Beautiful! Thank you for the idea and instructions and thank you to SmallHouseBigPony for her lovely designs.

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  2. Anitya @Hooked To Books says

    March 22, 2017 at 9:54 pm

    Awwww! They’re truly gorgeous!!!

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  3. Kristyn says

    April 10, 2017 at 6:36 pm

    These are beautiful and I can’t wait to apply them to eggs! My test sheet turned out great but I didn’t realize that was the last of my yellow ink. They still turned out great despite being mostly pink, blue, and purple. My daughter will love them even more because of that!

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  4. login problem says

    May 25, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    Just a page of free printable watercolor flowers and a secret weapon: temporary tattoo paper. Really?

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  5. Christine Parker says

    March 16, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    I LOVE this!!!
    With the same transfer paper as you have (I love that paper) and the water color designs I purchased online last year, these are going to be the most beautiful Easter eggs I’ve ever made!
    Thank you so much for the instructions, I look forward to making them.
    Ok to make them, post on my blog and track back to you? It’s been a while since I posted anything and this would be the perfect entrance to Spring!! <3

    Kindest regards,
    Christine

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  6. amy says

    March 31, 2018 at 4:24 pm

    will the tatto work on an egg that’s been dyed? I think they’d be pretty on a yellow or robin’s egg blue

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  7. Anderson says

    April 3, 2018 at 11:44 am

    The tattoo showed here are no longer available so far as I know. I contacted the owner of the sight to inquire if they would be available at a future time so as to let everyone know. She failed to get back to me. So just to let you know that particular design is no longer being offered.

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