Making Marbled Paper With Shaving Cream

With the edge of a credit card scrape the shaving cream off the paper.

Making marbled paper with shaving cream.

Add drops of food coloring on top. 2 use the back of a squeegee or you can use a ruler to spread the shaving cream out to a nice even layer. I have a binder full of ideas and this is one i pulled out a while ago when we were making our marbled valentine hearts with shaving cream the kids had a blast the first time we did it and i wanted to make the cover for our kids art and activities binder for this school year. You simply press a piece of paper into shaving cream swirled with liquid watercolours and the colours and patterns are transferred to the paper making it look marbleized.

Remove to a work surface. Apply a small amount of shaving cream to the pan or use wax paper so that you can make a layer that is a little wider than your cardstock sheet and about 1 4 1 25 cm thick. Use a craft stick to gently swirl the food coloring into the shaving cream. Then take 3 4 colors of acrylic paint and put drops all over.

Press a blank piece of paper into the shaving cream. Today i ll show you how to make marbled paper with shaving cream and liquid watercolours. Take a straw and make swirl designs making sure theres still white showing. This marbled paper craft is one i learned was when i was taking my art education class back in college.

The process is fascinating and really easy.