These colorful marble mugs are a simple craft made with nail polish! This nail polish marble technique easily creates pretty marble dipped mugs to gift or to keep.
SUPPLIES
- Nail polish
- Warm water
- Ceramic mug
- Mod Podge (optional)
TIPS
- You can get the nail polish AND mug at your local dollar store. This project could not be cheaper.
- You can also do this with multiple colors at once.
- You can layer this process doing one color at a time; letting it dry in between colors. Just don't do too many. It'll get messy.
DIRECTIONS
- Fill a disposable pan (or something you don’t mind getting permanently colored by nail polish) 2 – 3″ full with warm water
- Add more or less water depending on how high up on your mug you’d like the color to reach
- Make a mark on the inside of your pan to indicate the water level so you can fill it to the same spot each time if you’re making multiple mugs
- Add nail polish by pouring it onto the surface of the water, adding more or less depending on if you’d like more or less white to show through your marble pattern
- Working super quickly, use a toothpick or skewer to swirl the nail polish across the surface of the water to help create the marble effect
- Dunk your mug into the nail polish water. Go straight down and straight up to achieve the dipped look
- Move the mug to a protected surface to dry completely, avoiding rubbing the surface of the mug until completely dry
- Let them sit and dry overnight before touching them again
- For each mug you’ll need to dump the water and start over, regardless of whether or not you’re changing color
- (optional) Once dry, apply a super light and thin coat of dishwasher safe Mod Podge with a small craft brush (I like foam brushes) to keep them protected when washing.
Now, you can use a similar process to marble cloth/fabric and paper.
Fabric Marbling
Now for marbling paper. You can still just use the nail polish. What she is using here for the paper and buttons and such is a product called Easy Marble Paint Set.
Paper Marbling
