Marbling Ornaments With Spray Paint

Since spray paint is oil based the paint floats on water.

Marbling ornaments with spray paint.

Water dip marbling mottling with metallic spray paint one gather your supplies. 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. It ll get messed up so consider this your crafty container going forward.

You can use wooden skewer sticks to help move it around to different areas on the glass before you start to marble. Important please note that you have to use oil based. Pour the enamel paint into the ornament. Now gently squeeze just a little inside your ornament turn your ornament a little and squeeze a little more.

Again to make the marble stone ornament you will want a minimum of 90 white to the other colors. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. For my ornaments i. When mixing the marbling medium with acrylic paint it is a 1 to 1 ratio.

Using the wooden skewer slightly run it through your paints to create a lovely marbled effect. Fill a container with water that is deeper than the item you are gilding. 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. We found the best way to get the paint to marble and move together is by tapping the ornament against your hand in a circular motion.

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. Too much stirring will muddy the paints so just a few simple swirls will do. Cut your cardstock down to size and lightly dip the front side of your paper into the paint water starch mixture. To mix it you will add martha stewart multi surface satin paint into a plastic cup and then mix in the marbling medium.

I will show you step by step how to make fascinating original ornaments for your holiday decor. Let the paint run around the inside of the ornament before adding more paint. Then you can dip your object into the paint and create something beautiful in minutes. I mix the paint and medium together with a popsicle stick.