Marbling Ornaments With Spray Paint

Water dip marbling mottling with metallic spray paint one gather your supplies.

Marbling ornaments with spray paint.

Cut your cardstock down to size and lightly dip the front side of your paper into the paint water starch mixture. Important please note that you have to use oil based. Again to make the marble stone ornament you will want a minimum of 90 white to the other colors. I will show you step by step how to make fascinating original ornaments for your holiday decor.

Since spray paint is oil based the paint floats on water. The word on the internet was that you could create a fun marble effect on all kinds of things using a tub of water and some spray paint. This will not alter the color of your paint i promise. Once mixed leave to sit for a little while so there are no air bubbles.

You want to do about 1 part paint to two parts of the marbling medium. Too much stirring will muddy the paints so just a few simple swirls will do. Now gently squeeze just a little inside your ornament turn your ornament a little and squeeze a little more. Pour the enamel paint into the ornament.

To mix it you will add martha stewart multi surface satin paint into a plastic cup and then mix in the marbling medium. Let the paint run around the inside of the ornament before adding more paint. Using the wooden skewer slightly run it through your paints to create a lovely marbled effect. For my ornaments i.

Begin by quickly pouring your different colors into the ornament. You re going to want a good amount of paint for small ornaments i would say you will want roughly 3 tablespoons of paint to get started. When mixing the marbling medium with acrylic paint it is a 1 to 1 ratio. Fill a container with water that is deeper than the item you are gilding.

It ll get messed up so consider this your crafty container going forward. Step 3 testors recommends mixing equal amounts of one paint color and the marbling medium together and pouring the mixture one color at a time on your ornament to achieve a crisp separation of colors. I mix the paint and medium together with a popsicle stick. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture.