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Creative Challenge: Paper marbling
Victoria Rose
on August 25, 2021
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In this creative exercise we’re blurring the lines of what counts as ‘art supplies’ to remind you that you can get creative with anything! These marbled paintings look complicated, but we made them in minutes using paint and shaving cream.
To get started on your marbling:
- Cover the surface you’re working on with wax paper to keep it clean.
- Spray shaving cream directly onto wax paper, or fill a small aluminum tin with shaving cream.
- Spread shaving cream so that the top of the surface is even.
- Pour paints of choice into shaving cream.
- Using a bamboo chopstick, toothpick, or pencil, swirl paint around inside shaving cream.
- Lay cardstock face-down onto shaving cream.
- Pull cardstock back and wipe shaving cream excess off, revealing the marbled pattern.
Use smaller, folded pieces of cardstock to make cards for friends and family, or use a larger piece and make this the cover of your new journal.
Be sure to snap a pic before you clean up the process, and share it on Instagram using the hashtag #MakeStuffFeelBetter.
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