Decorating a Garden Sign Part 2

Last Spring I posted about decorating a garden sign with twine, silk flowers and some glitter paint. I’ve really enjoyed the sign, but felt it needed a bit more flash. After I finished the gnome diamond painting, I found myself with spare gems and thought they would be perfect to gussy-up my garden sign a bit more. I sat down with the extras and some tacky glue and went to work. I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out.

Wishing you all a fabulous week.

Finished New Gnome Diamond Painting

New Gnome Diamond Painting – Under the weather

I’ll be doing this diamond painting soon as I feel up to it.

Just making a quick post to say, I’m a bit under the weather. Hopefully, I’ll be back to visiting and blogging more in the next week or so.

Wishing you all great health and nice weather.

 

 

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Diamond painting – a brief overview

Here’s a brief overview of diamond painting. Unfortunately, this isn’t a tutorial. It’s just a general idea of how it works. There’s oodles of videos and tutorials that better explain the step-by-step process.

Diamond painting is a bit like cross-stitch or paint-by-numbers, except you use resin disks, referred to as diamonds, to fill in the picture instead of floss or paint.

Each color area has a designated character, number or letter. The canvas has adhesive in the working picture depending on if it a partial drill or a full drill. This is a partial drill picture, only the flowers and watering can is to be covered. Other pictures are full drills meaning the entire canvas is to be cover.

I use a pencil shaped applicator that uses a bit of waxy stuff to pick up colorful resin diamonds to apply to the canvas.

If you want a relaxing activity to work on at your own pace and create a fun or pretty piece of artwork. Diamond painting might be for you.
We have found it a bit addictive and always have several kits on hand to feed our diamond painting habit. lol

I hope this brief overview helps explain diamond painting fair enough to give a basic idea of how it’s done.
If you any any questions I’ll try to answer them.

Happy crafting!


Work in Progress 2025 – Diamond Painting

We started 2025 year off with diamond paintings . My husband is faster at the DP art than I am. He’s already finished his picture of kitchen paraphernalia.
I’m about 3/4 way through with mine. I like the watering can with sunflowers.
Sending warm thoughts and
Wishing you all a happy crafting Wednesday!