Marbling Eggs With Nail Polish

My favorite way was water marbling with nail polish.

Marbling eggs with nail polish.

Until i had babies i pretty much always had pretty fingernails. Remove the tape and voilà it s that easy. And silver polish was amazing. Add a metallic to make the eggs really shine.

I used this nail polish marbling technique on glass jars metal bowls wooden gift tags and papier maché boxes. When i sat down to brainstorm ideas to decorate my upcoming easter table i thought about how the vivid shades of some of my favorite spring nail polish colors would be the perfect medium for marbling easter eggs. But be warned making this craft is rather addictive. As i thought of some different ways to decorate easter eggs i realized i could use that same concept to decorate easter eggs with nail polish.

Marble to your heart s content and set your eggs out on display. Swirl around with a cocktail stick to combine the colours a little. In this video i have shown you guys how to make marbled eggs using nail polish. Tip the first colour you use will spread out the furthest and be the dominant colour.

We ve already started planning which pastel nail polish we ll be wearing for easter but our collection will decorate more than nails this spring this year we re making easy marbled easter eggs. Because once you start you ll want keep dipping. Add your varnish to the water use at least two colours. We used three colors for each marbling.

Some egg belu april 4 2013 at 9 34 pm reply. Metallic thumb tack eggs paper n stitch 6. Wait 10 mins for the nail polish to try and then pat the water droplets with a paper towel. Drawing inspiration from design mom s marbling with nail polish 5.

The options are endless. For marbling subsequent eggs use a toothpick to clear off all remaining nail polish from the water s surface before adding new nail polish for another egg. Using only nail polish a bucket of water paper towels and a wooden skewer you can turn a dozen ceramic eggs into gorgeous works of art. The nail polish will be stuck on the face of the box.

Quickly dip the egg in and watch the nail polish adhere to the egg. They looked complicated but were actually really easy. A lot of them. Nail polish in all kinds of fun shades.

I couldn t stop playing around with different color combinations and dipping just about everything in sight into the swirly waters. My essie polishes worked fine this time i think because i wasn t trying to make a specific design.