Tips / Tricks / Tools
By the time I got them contained and labeled I didn’t want to start on the actual painting anymore 😭
The square containers I just got today, they have little jars inside with their own lids and the square snaps shut nicely and the other thing is a Day/Night pill catty my grandma doesn’t use. the carry works really well since it holds two halves in one container and snap nicely shut not coming undone if I drop it.
For what its worth, I usually unkit and then kit up in one day - and start the new kit the next. I've found the same thing as you, once I've done the work of kitting up I need a break before I start it.
Unless it's something small like a coaster set, those I can kit up and make one coaster before I'm over it. For actual pictures it's kit up one day and start the image the next.
The more colours the picture has the more likely I am to want to just FINISH the kit up and go do something else. I think its partly as its fun to do the kit once all the drills are in the labelled vial, but during kit up I'm always afraid of mixing something up!
I was wondering about the coaster sets, I just started but my question was, do you seal them with something? I feel like the diamonds would fall off with condensation and all? Is there a sealer for diamond art specific?
I use a cheap diamond painting sealer off Amazon - I've tried a few and they all appear to be much the same and work well on coasters. I use mine for both hot and cold drinks and have never had a problem with condensation of anything. Just binned the 2 the husband and I have been using since 2022 as they were past their best but that happens to normal coasters as well.
Smart. For me, its not possible due to only having enough vials for one or two at a time (mostly one due to size). On the other hand, that keeps me focused as I have to finish one to be able to kit up another.
Genuine question. How do you "unkit"? I loved the idea of kitting up until I realized I didn't know what others did to reuse all the little boxes. I don't like the idea of just throwing all the extra drills away, so I'm stumped and have been too afraid to ask! 😅
I got have a couple of super cheap vial cases with 140 slots. I use one for left over square drills and the other for rounds. Each visl is labeled with the colour number and I put my leftovers/spares in it. That way if I run out on a kit I can use these to make sure I have enough. Ive also used them when I wanyed to modify a picture before.
So at the end, I unkit the colours in to my spares case and take the labels off the vials so that my working case is ready for the next kit. If the drills are bad quality they get tossed though.
When I kit down I save all my leftover drills into my leftover storage bags. I use 2”x3” zipper baggies that are labeled. I remove all the labels and/or washi from my trays and storage. I also clean my trays/storage. I do not wash them with soap and water between every canvas but I will do that after 2 or 3 canvases. I do use dryer sheets to wipe them all down. And just basically do an overall clean up and refresh of my desk/craft area.
Me too. For DAC kits I use the boxes/containers on the left & for Diamond Dotz kits I use the ones on the right. I do it right when I get it in the mail usually so my stash is already ready to go lol 😂
I hate kitting up too. The best thing I've done so far to make it less tedious was to buy removable labels that you can write on, so removing the old labels isn't such a trial. I use the removable ones even when the kit comes with its own labels.
I probably made it more complicated by just cutting the little baggies number label off and taping it to the containers. lol we live and we learn, it’s better than spilling them by trying to keep them in the baggies at least 🫠😂
I just didnt want to get up again from my comfortable spot oof lol, I will be investing in removable labels from now on. your kits are so nicely lined up and neat! I did also probably waste time trying to color coordinate the 9 squares like a make up palette lmao
I loathe kitting up so much. I bought 120 clear screw top containers and went through my next 4 projects and got all the symbols. I did 1-9, A-Z, a-z, common symbols I’ve seen and ones my next projects for sure had. Now I don’t have to relabel every time!!
I have over 400 kits (most budget) so I can’t prep them all. But many of my early 30x40cm ones are since they didn’t require as much room for the drills.
Woah! Yeah that's a lot. I stopped for now because I have so many containers full that I don't need any more. I seemed to have forgotten that all those containers are going to be empty at some point & I'm going to have over 100 to fill again 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️😂
Yeah I’ve bought a few but only ones I really really love now. My partner likes to point out I have more than I can finish in my lifetime. I know he’s right too.
I recognize the kits from Dollar Tree! I personally love the square ones. I have a DP that has 45 colors and I just love switching from container to container. Like I stack them up and then say I need #10, I know it’s the second in the stack. It’s kind of satisfying lol
they are, good eye! 🥳 I can’t lie a lot of the time might have gone to color coordinating to make it look like an eyeshadow palette lol, only the top one worked out though with its greens to blues 💅 I prefer smaller diamond art projects so I don’t think I’ll ever need more than six square ones in the future but who knows 💃🫂(sorry a, half awake and feeling giddy lol)
That's a great idea for repurposing a pill organizer. That said the double containers on the other one would drive me batty having to open two things every time I need a single color.
oooo you only need to open one since they have day/night lids, or if you meant the square one (sorry Im half asleep working through a lot of spelling errors lol brain empty) then when I’m using it I just have the big square open so o can grab whichever one I need 🫂
your fine honestly I probably shouldn’t be up right now but the art was calling me lol i always thought her pill organizers are cute cause she likes getting the ones that brighten up her day/night she’s so cute I love her 😍
I'm with her. We all should opt for things that brighten our day. And now they brighten yours and make you think of her when you use them!
And, we've all had nights like that. Part of me wants to get up and go work on my painting, but also I know of I just put my phone down and pick up my kindle I'd probably be asleep in 15 minutes.
Big mood lol I usually unkit and then kit the new set, then either take an hour break or wait until the next day. If I start on the same day I kit, I usually do less than I prefer tbh
I reuse my jars, they're always numbered 1 thru whatever. So just put the drills in the coordinating number. The only thing I cut is the coordinating color code inside each of the jars so when I'm done I can add them to my stock. It cuts down prep time a lot. I bought the case at 5 below for 5 dollars, but if you want to pay more for a bigger one they sell them on Amazon. But for 10 dollars I have enough jars for a larger project.
I love kitting up, but I only have the energy, usually, to kit down and kit up in one sitting. I generally won’t start a new project the same day that I kit up. Unless it’s a coaster or magnet set
My business idea for school was selling kits that were already kitted up in labeled containers, with pricing reflecting the labor and containers.
I did not get a good grade because they wisely pointed out that people prefer to pay less money for things, not more.
So the next year, I submitted a service of $5, you send the cheap kit to me, and I'll kit it up for you, then bring it to your house. And they told me I wasn't charging enough for my services.
Anyway, I love the kitting up part. I'll do it for you lol
That’s so cute. An idea I got from a custom DP is pre-printed labels:stickers. It makes kitting up easier bc I don’t have to buy extra labels and I don’t have to write anything. Just match sticker to label and kit up. It’s my first big DP so I was surprised to find out not all big DP come with pre-printed labels!
I was trying to come up with ideas of things I would want to do lol The winning proposals for the business contest at school were a real estate/AirBNB copycat and a doordash copycat respectively. I didn't enter a third time.
Pre-printed labels are so convenient, I haven't seen those in person yet.
Man, I just put them in little baggies with the package info cut out and stuck inside lol I do a lot of cheaper kits that don’t use the standard color numbers though, and I do intend to sort out my leftover drills into containers at some point.
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u/Aerlinniel_aer Feb 07 '26
For what its worth, I usually unkit and then kit up in one day - and start the new kit the next. I've found the same thing as you, once I've done the work of kitting up I need a break before I start it.