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4. Place the cardstock over the paint/ shaving cream combo and press lightly with your hands all over the back of the cardstock. 5. Lift up. There will be a layer of shaving cream covering the cardstock. Scrape it off with a piece of cardboard or a spatula, then set aside to dry. 6. Repeat process, squirting more paint on top of the shaving cream and swirling it around.
7. Now you have beautiful marbled paper that you can use for any number of projects, including cards (glue a square of the marbled paper onto the front of a blank card) and handmade blank books (see following instructions).
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Blank Books (Ages 3 and up) These simple books, shown above, can be used for notebooks, sketchbooks, recipe books, or to write and illustrate a story. Marbled cardstock Blank paper (copy paper is fine) Stapler 1. Fold 5 sheets of paper in half. 2. Fold 1 sheet of marbled cardstock in half. 3. Slip the folded paper into the folded cardstock cover. You can trim the paper and/or the cover until both are the desired size. 4. Use a stapler to staple the spine of smaller books. For larger books, you can use either a large swing-arm stapler (Kinko’s has one), sew it on a sewing machine or sew it by hand. 5. Your blank book is finished! Add a title if you like — Mom’s notebook or Grandma’s recipes — before presenting your gift.
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