Good afternoon, my dear friends and readers!
Finally, I had a queue to tell you about the diamond mosaic: reviews, your impressions of work, how to collect diamond mosaic, technology and rules.
I have already gathered this picture for quite some time, but we had a competition, we had to publish New Year's ideas.
That's just a good photo I could not do, so much was attempts in a different perspective, with different lighting, at different times of the day! But, or the photographer I am so, whether the diamond reflections interfered. In general, as it happened, although it actually looks much more interesting.
Diamond mosaic or diamond embroidery
Even at the end of August of this year, I learned from Irina Lukshit about the existence of an earlier new type of creativity - embroidery by diamonds.
After reading the story of Irina, I realized that I would definitely like it and just urgently need to purchase materials and try to master. After all, I love and puzzles to collect, and disassemble different accurate schemes, I don't like the complex knitting technique in vain.
And I was not mistaken, I liked this occupation! Very very! Absolutely without irony I speak, only as long as I do not plan to engage in collecting diamonds, at least in the near future. Why, tell at the end of the article.
Although very many call this creativity with diamonds, only identical schemes are associated with embroidery, yet embroidery involves a needle with a thread.
Sometimes the name "Diamond painting" is found, but it is not right at all, despite the fact that the result is very similar to the artistically written picture.
I believe that a completely fair name for this type of creativity is a diamond mosaic, because it is a mosaic and there is: small rhinestones are glued to the canvas, impregnated with a special sticky composition, placing in colors in accordance with the scheme.
The set of diamond mosaic kit includes:
- The canvas (canvas), which is applied to the color drawing of the future picture. The drawing is drawn into small numbered cells and in fact is a diamond mosaic scheme. On the right side on the canvas with the scheme there are designations of all used colors with assigned to each number.
- Square or round rhinestones laid out in packages in colors on which the corresponding numbers also cost
- Pinzet for working with square rhinestones
- Pencil for round rhinestones
- Special containers for rhinestones.
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As a result of the calculation of rhinestones on a sticky surface, a beautiful shimmering picture with a 3 D effect is obtained.
Where you can buy diamond mosaic
It's already I already know that the diamond mosaic is sold in stores and departments for creativity, and at that time I wanted to buy her apartments, without leaving the house, and I was not sure, they are in our stores, I have not seen before or did not pay attention.I looked at what was offered online-shop. It must be said that the prices in most of them bite, at least a novely unknown matter from such prices I thought risky.
If you want to buy a diamond mosaic in the Internet, please contact Aliexpress, that's what I came.
The range there is a huge, prices from 300 rubles and higher depending on the size of the work.
I have long examined different options and chose a landscape, swung at the diamond mosaic of large sizes: 30x40 cm for 700 rubles.
The parcel came pretty quickly seems to be around 2 weeks.
I have already made a lot of purchases on Aliexpress, everyone has always been satisfied, the description corresponds, the quality is good, and most importantly - the prices do not like! There was never any misunderstanding.
Wow! I got this digression that I was talking today. But I will continue the story about the diamond mosaic and its reviews.
When I opened the parcel, then I was somewhat upset by the colors of rhinestones, they did not correspond to my presentation seen in the photo. On the screen, the picture was very bright and sunny, and the colors in the bags were dark. But I worked in vain, as a result, the picture turned out in such warm, deep tones and I really like it.
In addition, I did not expect rhinestones with such Malipus! Well, how can they take and see them at all? I was sure that my work will delay at least half a year, or even more, but I coped for 1.5 months.
Diamond Mosaic Technique
Of course, I began to understand, watch video tutorials on how to collect a diamond mosaic. They helped me very much to understand the essence, but in the process, while I adepened, I also had my own rules that I want to share with you.
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Organization of workplace
This question is extremely important. For this type of activity, it is necessary first of all very good lighting.- Choose a comfortable place, a table for which you will sit. Left from above there must be a light source.
- It would be nice to arm a magnifying glass. But I needed just with glasses, although it was difficult sometimes.
- To make more convenient to work with numerous rhinestones, it is recommended to pour them into small boxes, stroke numbers on the boxes. But I had no place to gain such a huge number of boxes and I tried to take rhinestones ... directly from the bags! It turned out that it is very comfortable! In addition, the numbers do not need to translate, you can close the packages at any time, shift, put on each other, you can even drop without loss!
- Although in the package with the parcel there was a complete set of devices, I only needed tweezers, because in my diamond mosaic square rhinestones.
List of diamond mosaic by numbers
1. The sticky canvas of the diamond mosaic is covered with paper. It does not need to immediately delete immediately, otherwise you can stick during work, it will be very uncomfortable and it is not even possible to spread minor rhinestones. You need to open the scheme gradually, starting from the upper left corner.
2. Determine what color is more in the discovered fragment and find these rhinestones by number. Pour a little bit into a special little container. First, rhinestones will fall randomly, but if the container is slightly shaking the movement of there and here, most of them are spent in the rows of container with limiters by convex side up, as they need when they are displayed.
3. Rhinestones of additional colors, those whom on this part of the picture is smaller, I just found the numbers and straight in the bags laid out the side of work. Packets opened and pushed part of rhinestones to the edge.
4. With the help of the tweezers, we take one diamoman, put it on the appropriate cell of the scheme with a flat side and slightly appreciate the same tweezers.
5. Laying rhinestones is better not in a row in line, but in a checkerboard.
I made photos in an enlarged form.
It is noticeable that not all rhinestones smoothly lay down, although in reality it is difficult to see well. But rhinestones can easily be corrected, cross. They are aligned in the process of laying out other rhinestones next to already laid out.
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6. There is no accurate order of calculation. It was convenient for me to glue the rhinestones first of the same color from the container or revealed bag, and then another, and not climb on different packages for each step.
7. When the picture is completely laid out, it will be possible to separate the paper on and lay out the following fragment. And thus until the end of work.
8. My picture is quite large, so it was divided into two parts with paper. At first I laid out the top, then the bottom.
9. I bought a frame and inserted a finished job into it.
But I still do not only know what to do with the remnants of a diamond mosaic, and there are so many of them that you can put one more and even two pictures.
My Diamond Mosaic Reviews
As I already said above, I really liked the result. It turned out such a pleasant calm picture in warm deep colors. It seems that it is volumetric, as if you see the forest away and the movement of water.
Another time you look - see the painting of the artist written by the paints.
In the light she flickes all and overflows.
It creates such an effect if you look from afar. And close to the embroidery of the cross.
The work process did not just capture me, but I took everything free and not free time. I never even paid my beloved knitting time to my beloved knitting. With my blogs, I had already forgotten what the TV was, and I was doing a mosaic, I managed to watch movies and rest on Saturdays and Sundays in parallel. I laid out diamonds until midnight in the evenings and in the morning there were 5 minutes of time, which usually lacks in the work charges. During cooking, when, for example, waiting for boiling water in a saucepan, also sleeved rhinestones.
In general, all other things went to the background, and this is not very good for me, so I repeat once again and lay out a new picture in the diamond mosaic technique, I still abstain to better times.
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My dear readers and friends, before the new year, I do not plan to release new articles, so now I want to congratulate you on the upcoming holiday and wish happiness, health, fulfillment of all the desires in the new year!
And for women, I prepared a small surprise in the video of my own manufacture.