10 Easy Decorating Tips for Monochromatic Eggs

The spring season with flowers, cherry tree blossoms, butterflies, and Easter eggs everywhere is quite beautiful, but also very “pastel.”

The colors of spring are quite fetching and lovely, but they aren’t very gothic. If you’’re a little more into the Goth or “Easter-Ween” aesthetic, the colors of Spring decorations just don’t work.

What if we remove the color aspect all together, and go with some egg decorating tips that are a little more monochromatic for a cool, gothic, or Easter-Ween feel.

Here are ten quick ideas for turn plain white eggs (either real eggs or craft eggs), into a cool basket of black-and white gothic eggs:

1. Find some newspaper or old book scraps and decoupage them on. Try one with all text, and find some with images to mix it up. If you can’t find a newspaper or old moldy book you are planning on scraping, you can print out pages just as easily.

2. Make some stencil designs with small doilies. Use simple acrylic or craft paint, or a small can of black spray paint. I recommend the brush or sponge on the paint for younger crafters, as it is safer and easier to do at a table.

3. Button art. Black and white spare buttons aren’t hard to run across. Use a glue gun, and cover it with small buttons for a Victorian look. Buttons are pretty easy to find in old junk drawers and sewing kits, but you can always buy a package of them very cheap. Use all one shade, or mix up the black and white.

4. Pinstripe. Use a marker or paint to get some “Jack Skellington”or “Beetlejuice” Tim Burton style buttons on it. With the new movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hitting theaters this fall, the Tim Burton style will be popular once again.

5. Toothpick sketching. Cover the egg with black acrylic paint and let it dry. Then draw over it with a toothpick. This will create a type of negative space design. Hint: this also looks cool on different colored eggs.

6. Stickers! Stickers are something that comes with many egg-decorating kits, but instead of chicks and bunnies, find some black and white designs. Easy enough.

7. Zentangles. Use a fine point marker to create fine line designs and Zentangles. If you want reference of how this looks, I recently did a post on ways to color that help keep you focused.

8. Plain doodles. If you don’t have time to focus on Zentangles, simple doodling is fun. Cover it with plain black drawings just like the kind you would draw on the edges of your homework or a white piece of paper.

9. Cover it with small scraps of cloth, for a quilted texture. Use different type of scrap cloth to give it some depth.

10. “Bedazzle” it. Cover it with small black and/or white jewels or glitter for a sparkly egg.

Try one or all of these ideas and place them all together in a black or white basket or container. Now, you have a monochromatic set of eggs that are still decorative and fancy, but certainly not your standard pastel.