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Flowerbouquet design - cut out stage            Flowerbouquet design - set with

                                                                                 crystals

WELCOME VISITOR! I am Katie Geerling, an artist and creator of beautiful jeweled eggs. Nice to meet you! Please take time to read about my very own technique, how to turn a blown out egg into a breathtaking jewel piece...

My imagination offers me an abundance of beautiful images, which I turn into freehand designs. Some of these are drawn with pencil directly on the eggshell,some, thanks to digital technology, become master copies, and can be used multiple times by applying digital decal paper. Starting with cutting, however, I return to the manual way. I cut each egg individually, making sure even repeat patterns get a one of a kind apperance. I work on many different kind of eggs, from tiny chicken eggs through duck, goose, jumbo goose eggs to rhea and emu eggs.To cut through the eggshell I use a special jeweler's micro motor interchanging many different cutting burrs in my hand piece, and this is how I compose the design, similar to mosaic work. I developed many skillful ways how to guide my tool to achieve unique results.

After having finished the cutting work eggs go through a cleaning process in clorox bleach and vinegar, then rinsed and dried. A final step before crystalling each egg is sprayed with two layers of acrylic coating.

The cut in design "sets the stage" for the crystalling process. I use exclusively Swarovski Austrian crystals, be that jewelling the egg or adding beadwork to it. Holes and cuts are set with pointed back crystals in many sizes and colors, while flat back stones are more instrumental in contouring or filling in spaces between cuts. Each stone is placed individually, one by one. I use professional jewelers cement to glue on the crytals on, choosing my colors as inspiration guides me. Beads and drop crystals complete the design until the egg becomes a brilliant work of art. As inspiration is catchy, I expanded my egg art business and also sell supplies to meet your creative dreams...You will find in my inventory everything to complete a TINKA egg. If your main focus is on crystals, I have beutiful kits available, where the job is to finish the cut in design with pre-counted and pre-packaged crystals. For the "I just want to enjoy" customer there are finished eggs for sale. To share the passion of this beautiful art work I am also giving crystalling classes where we work on precut eggs. You can learn more about these on the following pages. You can easily contact me by clicking on the e-mail link at the bottom of each page.  And now welcome to the world of TINKA*EggArt - Katie

TINKA*EggArt: Where the Spirit of Faberge meets the Fire of Swarovski on real eggs.