Hello internet! enDIYvor here to try out another DIY project!

Today, I’m going to be attempting marbled paper!

I’ve seen this Pin popping up occasionally, and because it touts itself as so ridiculously easy I just had to give it a go.

The basic idea is that with using just shaving cream and food coloring, you can create beautiful, colorful marbled paper, envelopes, stationary, etc. I’m a little skeptical.

Let’s get this rolling!

Here are the things I’ll be using for this DIY.

The tutorial suggests using a ruler to scrape off all that excess shaving cream in one fell swoop. I searched and searched but couldn’t find a ruler anywhere. So I decided to use my spatula instead.

Okay, this is a little addicting. The tutorial claimed this as well, but I didn’t believe it. Shame on me!

Looking back at the tutorial, I realized that I had missed a step. She actually masked off the back of her paper with painters tape. This probably would have strengthened the paper and saved this one. Oops.

However, as my other attempts had been successful, I’m going to advise that the masking step isn’t necessary. Just make sure you’re gentle with your scraping and your wiping and you should be fine as long as you’re using a thick, strong weight of paper. Sketch paper, poster board or paper stock should work fine. I don’t recommend using regular printer paper for this because it will likely rip and or fall apart no matter how gentle you are.

And there you have it! I would consider this DIY to be a success. It was as easy as the tutorial suggested, but if you’re not particularly artistic (like me) you may need to make several attempts to get neater marbled patterns. Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the outcome.

Now to think of what to use this marbled paper for. Anybody have any suggestions?

That concludes the testing of this DIY! But don’t just take my word for it, you can find tutorials for this project here and here.

Do you have any DIYs you would like for me to try? Let me know in a comment or send me an email!

Thanks for reading and I hope you liked this Pintertest! See y’all in the next one!