Forgive my ignorance but what is diamond painting?
It's this!
Basically, you get little diamonds/resin drills in packets, you put them on a tray, fill your pen with wax/ putty and off you go putting the diamonds on the canvas
Most people get storage containers to hold the diamonds in so you don't lose them, like these
It helps with anxiety and all that, it's very easy to do once you know what you're doing.
If you want, watch this:
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If you want, I'll make a video on my own experiences later on? It's 1am and my family is in bed right now so I can't
Since I've gotten my second painting, the first thing I've liked to do was see if I have overlapping colors between kits. Especially if I have open packets of unused drills (that's the diamonds).
So far I've only gotten kits from one store on AliExpress so I know the they work with the same color system. But, I'm pretty sure the use the DMC color coding system (it's a color coding system that a lot of different places use, I'll post about it at some point, but it's supposed to make sure you can use colors from different paintings). So I see which colors overlap and I mark them down, and find them. I really like that first organizing of my kit. Totally unnecessary if you don't like it, but I find it really fun to see the different colors I'm getting, what's new and what isn't.
I also have been getting these cute containers to store my drills in, and it helps to know what I have already, for my organizing the drills in to it.
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I didn't end up posting all of these guys one by one, but the group is finally done. I give you the Heartslabyul crew as 40k Space Marines! With an honorary 6th member with Chenya!
I'm honestly quite happy with how these guys turned out and I'm hoping the Chenya helmet looks relatively close to him (makes me wish I had a 3d printer for the cat ears)
A Paint by Numbers Custom Kit is a complete set that allows you to create a beautiful artwork by following a pre-drawn canvas divided into numbered sections.
I read somewhere that covering your canvas with parchment paper is a great way to protect it and make it easier to work with (especially if it comes covered with plastic).
So what I did was take a piece, cut it up in to a bunch of small rectangles, and careful replace the covering my new painting came with, with that. It makes it easier to work on small parts of the painting, without getting the canvas dirty, or your hands getting suck to the glue.
Just be sure you are using parchment paper (the stuff you use for backing) and not wax paper (no idea what that is, I've just heard warnings against it).
I'll share pictures soon of before and after I did this, so y'all can get an idea of what I mean.