It seems crafts are definitely in the air as I tackle on something that I’ve seen around the Facebook feeds and Youtube front pages over the past year and while it was for some other things like car aesthetics and such, I decided to try to do it for ornaments as I did some research and some people do it as well.
This was a learning process so most of it was a failure BUT, I think I had one that turned out okay and the other ones, I’m going to redecorate so that they can be used for tree. As for why its a failure, I’ll talk about at the end. The process in general works but its more the execution…
Anyways..let’s check it out!
Craft accessories
- Old nail polish
- Clear baubles (mine are glass, but they do sell it in plastic..not sure how that would end up though)
- Room temperature water
- Old container (not reusable for any edible items)
- Toothpicks
- Cotton swabs
How to do it:
- Fill the container with room temperature water. Take the nail polish color(s) you want to use and drop it into the water. It should float and expand.
- Quickly, use the toothpick to make the patterns (if its multiple colors). I believe you can for single color also but I haven’t tried before.
- Use a glove if you want to cover the entire bauble or dip it half way to wrap it up. Remember to use a cotton swab to pick up any left over colors from the water before re-emerging the bauble from the water.
Voila! That’s the final and most successful one (at the sixth try)!
But I’m not going to cheat all of you out of all my failures as well so here’s all six of them…
Look at it like how you’d do a C shape and that’s the order of how it was done.
- The first was the result of not having a cotton swab to pick up the excess so it dragged all over it creating a huge thick smush. The colors aren’t bad but that blob doesn’t work with it.
- Two and Five has the issues of mostly choosing bad colors so it just blended together into a whole lot of nothing.
- Three and Five suffers a bit from the first issue I had but also had these issues of the toothpick dragging too late and it had already formed the film so the colors moved all into a bunch
- Six is by far the best one both in marbled effects as well as the color combination
There you go! That’s the little DIY Marbled Ornaments that I did! Its really a lot harder than it looks. I wanted to try it to get rid of all the old nail polish that I can’t use anymore because its separated or whatnot. I wonder if using not so separated one would be better even if I did shake it to make it work. There is a big nail polish fumes emitting from the bauble though. So you will want to air them out a lot before using these DIY Ornaments.
Other than that, it is pretty fun to mix and match colors and work on this. Like I mentioned above, I will probably find some way to incorporate other old things and add some stuff to these failed ornaments so that they can be used one way or another to hide the issues on the surface. I’ll see what I can do. Maybe I’ll do an Instagram post on it or something when I’m done.
Have you tired marbled ornaments with nail polish?
If you have, please tell me whether you were successful and where you see my issues are. Any tips and suggestions will be highly appreciated!
Tranquil Dreams 