Marbling Paper Ink

Today you can make your own rich designs by marbleizing paper to use as stationery and cards.

Marbling paper ink.

They are pigment inks made of high grade cosmetic pigment with p v a. The technique is quite easy. A shallow tray is filled with water and various kinds of ink or paint colors are carefully applied to the surface with an ink brush. It may seem straightforward until you consider buoyancy and other variables in the mix.

Beautiful hand marbleized paper is often used in bookmaking or other paper crafts. I used a heavy watercolor stock for my paper but i think you could get away with a nice cardstock. I filled a shallow bowl with water and dropped in 3 4 drops of 3 4 different colors of ranger alcohol inks. Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry.

These innovative marbling inks are not ordinary dyes. My experience was certainly a comedy of trials and errors but after a bit of experimenting i hit my marbling sweet spot. Fill your tray with about 1 2 1 inch of water. There are several methods for making marbled papers.

This package contains six marbling colour inks in 12ml tubes orange red yellow green blue and black. During a special process. Save money by making your own mableizing ink. As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper.

Marbling is achieved by floating pigment on water and laying paper over the water to transfer the pigment design onto the paper. Marbleizing which involves using absorbent papers to pick up ink from a water bath dates to the twelfth century when it was practiced in japan and possibly china. In the beginning of my video i show many examples of alcohol ink marbling. Oil based inks in a tank of water being prepared for marbling.

Various additives or surfactant chemicals are used to help float the colors. Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. The marbling pigments sold by most arts and crafts suppliers can be quite expensive and are not always readily available.