I totally made that!
After seeing a story about it in a magazine, I found a post about making gorgeous marbelized paper. At home. With liquid starch! The post was labeled, "This is awesome!" Absolutely.
(I also came across a version that uses shaving cream and food color. Haven't tried it.)
Start with cardstock. Have ready bamboo skewers and a towel-covered surface for the finished product. Fill a container - I used a 9x13-inch glass casserole dish - with enough liquid starch to cover the bottom. Like so.
Squeeze dots of acrylic paint onto the surface.
Use a bamboo skewer to swirl the colors together, creating the marbling effect. Valerie at Frugal Family Fun Blog suggested lightly bending the paper in half and carefully unrolling it in the starchy paint. Lift the paper and rinse in a container of water. (I used another glass casserole dish beside the first one, a towel beneath both to catch any drips.) Let dry on a flat surface.
We ooohed and ahhed each time we lifted the paper and saw the design. 
The Child and I took turns. Here he swirls dots of blue paint.
The finished product.
Gorgeous! Do you love this? Are you excited? I'm excited. CAN YOU TELL. Tonight I'm totally going to dream about swirls of paisley and marble swoops and swishes, peacock feathers, and luscious, scrumptious colors.
4 comments:
And I dream of those colors as well---all swoops and swirls and even the scents of azure and pink.
The one with the pale roses already in the liquid is like an ethereal childhood birthday cake.
Sweetpea, you DO beat all---simply lovely, and unique in the real sense of the word. Is there anything you won't tackle?
I want to do it. So lovely. So much fun. (now what shall we do with the finished product? Are they cards? I bet you can do it with shiney white wrapping paper, but you might need a kid's pool to do it.)And I'm so glad your Tillman's mom, too, and not some other mom.
Beautiful!
very nice!
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