Do you drink coffee? I personally am known as the coffee queen. I just can’t function without my morning brew, and I’ve been known to enjoy a cup or two on cool evenings.

If you love coffee too…or tea, or hot chocolate…I have a great little tutorial for you. I’m going to show you how easy it is to make your own marbled coffee cups…with nail polish!

How To Marble A Mug With Nail Polish

So, I’ve seen a few tutorials on marbling and some of them use acrylic paints. This one however, is right up my alley; partly because it’s a coffee cup and partly because it uses fingernail polish to make the colors.

I have a slew of nail polish colors, so I already have everything that I need to do this craft.

What You Need To Marble A Cup

So, aside from the nail polish, you need a plain white mug, which you can get at any Dollar Store. I picked mine up at my local Dollar General and it was only a dollar.

You also need something rather large to dip the cup, so a larger glass bowl, if you have one, will work fine.

And, you can do this with any color of polish that you want, so play with the technique a while and create all sorts of beautiful color combinations.

What You Can Do With A DIY Marbled Coffee Cup

You can create your own set of beautiful mugs for yourself or make a set to give out as gifts.

This is honestly one of the easiest crafts you will ever do, so it’s simple to make a set of four cups to give as gifts for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, or any special occasion.

It only takes a few minutes per cup, so you could have an entire set finished in just an hour or so. You could make a set of cups to go in a coffee themed gift basket!

How To Make A Marbled Coffee Cup With Nail Polish

This DIY marbled coffee cup is the perfect way to personalize your mug. You could create your own matching set of coffee mugs for yourself or to give as a gift, and you can choose any color combination that you want.

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How To Make A Marbled Cup With Nail Polish

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Learn this quick and simple technique for creating your own marbled cups. A step-by-step tutorial for creating personalized mugs that are perfect for gift giving.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Difficulty Easy

Estimated Cost $3

Materials

• A White Coffee Cup
• Nail Polish in any Combination of Colors You Want
• Water
• Large Bowl
• Toothpick

Instructions

1. You will begin by choosing your mug. Note that you should use a white mug for this, although you could do this with mugs of different colors to make them more unique. Just use darker nail polish colors for colored mugs and make sure that your cups are plain without any decorations or wording.
2. Add water to your bowl, I filled mine about halfway full to allow room for the cup.
3. Start dropping in nail polish. You don’t want to add too much, just a couple of drops of each color that you are working with.
4. I recommend adding a drop of one color and then a drop of another and repeating this until you have all of the color that you want for your design.
5. Using your toothpick, pull the colors inwards toward the center of the bowl and then push them back out. This is the design part so you can honestly do this however you want to get the design that you prefer.
6. Place your mug in the water, with the side where you want the design to be going in.
7. When you take the mug out, you should see your design right there on the side.
8. You can repeat this on the other side if you want to completely cover your coffee cup.
9. Allow it plenty of time to dry before you use it. Just to be safe, I left this one alone for 24 hours so that I knew without a doubt that the polish was dry.
10. That’s it! Such a simple yet beautiful way to decorate a plain mug. Your design will be different than mine, but your finished marbled coffee cup should look something like this:

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What Other DIY Coffee Items Can You Make?

If you are planning to make this DIY marbled coffee cup to go into a gift basket, and I think that would be a wonderful idea, there are other DIY things that you can add to that basket to make it extra special.

Try this DIY coffee candle. It’s really simple to make, or you could add any of these delicious DIY coffee creamer recipes, or if you don’t want to do coffee, I have a great collection of homemade hot chocolate recipes that would be perfect.

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