I did a bunch of experimenting and found that nail polish and water offer up an extremely easy way to marble just about anything you desire from glass to wood to metal to cardboard.
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Fill plastic tub with water and then pour in nail polish.
There are a few tricks to making sure your water marble goes well.
Let the face of the box touch the surface of the water and then lift.
The options are endless.
Use the stirring stick to collect the rest of the nail polish and to clean up the water for the next color.
Use a 200ml disposable paper cup.
This is important because old or gloopy nail polish will not spread out on the surface of the.
Fill your tub with water.
Swirl nail polish with stirring stick.
I used this nail polish marbling technique on glass jars metal bowls wooden gift tags and papier maché boxes.
The only difference will be the polish and the pattern.
Once the polish spreads out into a circle place a drop of polish in another color on top and swirl a toothpick through the circle to create the marble effect.
Here they are sprinkled into this step by step guide.
Do this quickly as the nail polish starts to get a little gummy quite fast.
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The nail polish will be stuck on the face of the box.
I am going to use the same exact cup as well as distilled room temperature water for every brand i test.
It is called water marbling and it is a geeky way to paint your nails.
When water marbling be sure to use highly pigmented opaque and fresh or thinned nail polish.
A bit of nail polish thinner not acetone can be added to the polish and you might get one or two good rings out of it but don t expect miracles.
I say geeky because it involves floating nail polish on water and in our case involved an impromptu science lesson for my.
Sink a few drops of various colours of nail polish into the tub of water.
2 put normal water in the cup 22 24 degrees centigrade too warm or too cold water will dry your nail polish faster and won t give you time to draw the design.
Immerse your project item into the water.