That is an excellent idea!!! And would definitely be helpful as I am constantly shuffling through canvases on my drafting table. It has become a place to store WIPs instead of a workspace and I’d like to reclaim it for its intended purpose. I am going to look into that, thanks for sharing!
I wish I could do that! I just need the variety, but its tough doing so many at a time because I don’t see very quick results. I do get a lot of finishes though, even doing it this way. I’m having fun changing it up every day.
Wow you must have a ton of storage containers. Lol🙂. I an so compulsive I hate not finishing one. I even have to de-kit before I start another. I loved watching all your WIPs and look forward to seeing the ones you finish. Good luck.
One large one finished so far! Yay! And yes, I do have tons of storage. Too much, obviously! 🤣😂 I wish I had more self control and could resist new starts, but willpower is NOT one of my strong suits. Lol.
Wow this was beautiful to see, thank you for sharing. You must have a lot of storage units. Enjoy your paintings and I hope you get a few complete. Take care 😁💖
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. And yes, I have tons and tons of storage. Too much! I did mange to finish 3 large ones…. And got a good deal further with many others. But I also realized there were a few that I just hated and this project gave me the push I needed to just admit defeat and abandon them for good. I need to go on a no start about every other month to get all of the rest of these done!
Love love love this video! Really enjoyed seeing how much you have done on each painting. It’ll be so much fun working on a different painting each day.
It is going really well so far. I am thoroughly enjoying working on a new one every day. There are a few that I now remember why they got set aside and are almost painful to work on, but then there are others that I am enjoying so much that I want to keep working on them for more than a day. But I’m staying vigilant. So far…..lol.
@@ValerieHollifield Things are going so well and I already have one finish, so yes, I think I will do another video at the beginning of September and see just how much I was able to make a dent in this mess.
What a great idea for a video! I hope we get as many days of WIPnCHATS! I’m too new (meaning scared) to do more than one project at a time. Maybe someday.
Whoa, that would be a lloooottttt of chatting. I wonder if I could have that much to say! Lol! I am really enjoying the variety of a new project every day, but some of them I just want to keep working on. One big finish so far, so that’s some progress.
It's taken me a handful of days to finish watching this video because I wanted to pay attention while watching. I often DP while watching videos but not with this. I really enjoyed this video. It was a fantastic idea for a video and OMG there are so many. But you did sum it up perfectly at the end by saying their yours, you paid for them so you can do what you want with them. As long as they eventually get finished & if they bring you so much joy then what the heck. I have 3 DP's on the go but 2 are little guys. Usually I only do one at a time. But it takes willpower not to begin an new one,I get it. I am currently waiting for my second DIYmoonshop DP to arrive so hope it's the new canvas. That'd be cool. I think it should be going by when I ordered it. I gotta say I absolutely 💗 that DP you bought at the retreat from DP w Sparklers' w the colour blocked hair. I just love it. I h noave already emailed the company to try and buy it so hopefully that will make it happen..
Yeah, willpower is not one of my strong points. I have none, obviously. I’m glad you like the video and glad you found something that you are going to get. I worked on Colorful Lady for a couple of hours last night, and holy 310!!! There is so much black! But it is so striking against all the rhinestones and bright colors….I’m anxious to share my progress on that one. What did you order from DIYMoonshop? They are one of my favorite stores and I am itching to get something new from them but need to save up for it.
@@AngietheCraftnado I have bought 'Joy' by Lelani Joy, which is so my style but haven't started because I am still waiting for the special treatment for that kit to arrive. I bought the ST after I received the DP because I decided I really wanted to do it w those drills to jazz it up. That's the old style canvas. Also my very first DIYmoonshop. I am now waiting on 'Love Spell' by Lioba Bruckner. It should have arrived already buto I received an email from the company saying there was a printing error on a bunch of canvases including mine that wasn't up to standard so they needed to be re-printed. They gave me a 15% discount on my next order. I was ok with this because these things happen it's not like I don't have any other DP's to do to keep me busy hahaha. This should be in the new style I hope. It will be squares too. 'Joy' is in rounds so be good to do one of each. So technically I haven't yet had the chance to do a DIYmoonshop canvas just yet. The special treatment will be sent out w the second canvas so had to wait a while for them but again that's fine. As long as I get them it's all good.
@@elysabethpoodle6234 yeah I’d definitely be fine with a 15% discount if it meant I had to wait a little longer. You’re right, it’s not like we don’t have anything else to work on. I love both the old and new DIYMoonshop canvases that I have completed and I hope you will too. I haven’t gotten anything from Buckner but I do like it.
Thank you! Yeah, 3 is a much more manageable number. I am hoping to knock some of these out and get my number down. It has become a lot to deal with in terms of occupied storage containers. Ive finished one big one so far though!
You totally should! It has been so fun to change it up every day. I am loving some and wondering why they got set aside, but hating others and seriously considering abandoning them and reclaiming their storage for new projects in September. It’s only been 8 days and I am already itching to start something new. I really want to start that new Josephine Wall.
Hey girl, amazing video!!! Love all you WIPS!! Every day is a new step. I have 2 going. One large, one MONSTER!!! I don't know when I'll start back on my monster canvas. My husband keeps asking me when I'm going to restart my large project in the basement 😒 I just keep giving him that look like why, is there something in the basement you need moved or want? I'll start back soon. I have so many I want to start and not enough time. I'll get there. Have a wonderful day!! 2 more weeks and it's time for my Chef hat and knives. Summer travel and fun coming to a end.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure about posting it, but everyone seems to like it….. I am having so much fun working on something different every day. It’s hard to work on a project that’s in a different location than usual isn’t it? I like to work on my lap desk in the living room, but like you I have to work on bigger canvases someplace else. For me its the craft room and it just isn’t as comfortable in there, so larger projects don’t get as much love as they should. I’m hoping to knock a few of these out during this month. I hope you enjoy your last two weeks of summer before getting back to the grind. Happy vacationing!
I'm exactly the same, I want to start them as soon as they arrive so I've got a fair few on the go. The only thing that stops me starting more is a lack of storage!
Wow!!! I don’t know if I could ever have that many WIPs going at once! Most I’ve done are 2 at a time! 😅 But oh my! You have some gorgeous ones! Alice & Snow White and Into Wonderland are on my wishlist!!! 😍
I wish I could be more like you! I just have zero willpower and cannot resist sometimes when I get new things. I actually came really close already today to starting a new one, but I didn’t! I will remain vigilant! I already finished Alice and Snow White and it turned out so nice, I hope you are able to snag it! Today I worked on Maleficent and Colorful Lady and for tomorrow I think you’ve inspired me to choose Into Wonderland. I need a square after two days of rounds.
@@AngietheCraftnado Yay you had the willpower to resist today! Not that it would be a bad thing, but I know you really want to complete the ones you started. 😉 My willpower fails me when it comes to buying. I actually just started diamond painting this year and I’m already building up quite a little stash! 😅
@@AngietheCraftnado I’ve never done a square, but I have one on the way! Looking forward to trying it out and seeing how I feel about square drills. Also congrats on finishing Alice and Snow White! I can’t wait to see that one! I actually just followed your IG. I hope you’ll share your progress there! And yay for Into Wonderland! I love JoJoesArt! I just finished his Alice in Wonderland. Forgot to mention, I really like Maleficent too! You have good taste! 😅👍
@@Needle2Needle You have great taste too! I was having too much fun working on Maleficent, I couldn’t put her away. SO I spent two days on her. Today is Into Wonderland. I hope you like square drills. I was really nervous about it the first time I started working on one, but it really isn’t all that different. I really love the clicking sound the drills make when they snap into place. I think rounds will always be my favorite, but I definitely do a lot of both. I will keep you posted on my progress. I’m really bad with IG but I need to try to be more active there. I think I’m going to do a short video at the end of the month and show what I finish. Have a great day, and thanks!
@@AngietheCraftnado oh yay!!! I can’t wait to see your progress on Into Wonderland! And guess what??? I just ordered it! I couldn’t resist! It’s been on my wishlist ever since I first saw it! And I hope I like squares too, because I also just ordered Willa! 😅
5 is definitely a more reasonable number. I would love it if I could get down to that number. And the train? Yep, that one is so cool. My granddaughters are going to love it!
So many WIP's!!! I would totally get overwhelmed with that many. I work 1 at a time, and currently am working on a project Im struggeling with. With this WIP i totally understand the need of starting another WIP. My biggest problem in life i have trouble finishing what I start, thats why I just keep going.
I am so sorry I somehow missed your comment. I completely admire your ability to stick to one! Sometimes I wish I could do that. Having so many going can get overwhelming. Thanks for watching!
I wish I had that many to start, I have warm witch, summer storm from craftibly, a winter scene from spell queen and a small one from tinme arts.and they are large. Love your stash
Well, the short answer to that is… I don’t. Not comfortably. I absolutely hate doing middles. That’s possibly why I have so many incomplete diamond paintings. Lol. But when I do get to those areas, I usually let the completed portion hang off the edge of the table in front of me. It will appear to “crease” or bend the canvas while you’re working on it, but it will go right back into shape after you return it to a flat position. I also have recently found that if I put release papers under my arms while I am leaning on the already drilled areas that it helps to keep already placed drills from coming up on my arms.
I loved this video!! How on earth do you finish so many diamond paintings?? Secondly, where on earth do you keep 30 storage container systems?? You are definitely a "BOSS"!! I'm recently subscribed and I look forward to watching more of your videos! Any advice on working so fast (and I do multi place, but usually with a four placer, but I think I might be ready to go to a 6... What do you think??)? Thanks so much 😊
Welcome! I’m so happy to have you here! I am lucky enough to have a craft room, so I keep half of my storage containers labeled and piled in there and the other half on the table next to my recliner in the living room where I have a little workstation set up. It’s getting overwhelming hence taking this month to “catch up”. I decided to do a little update at the end of the month and show what I actually got done and I’m going to show all my storage as well. There’s a lot. Lol. I don’t know that I’m a particularly fast diamond painter, but I do have a lot of time every day to devote to it. As far as multiplacers go, I have to say that I am most comfortable with the 4 placer myself. Any bigger and it seems like the drills get too “bunched up” and don’t go evenly into the spaces on the canvas. If I have a TON of color blocking (like Nightbringer from Diamond Art Club), I will use a 7 placer. I would say give a 7 a try. 6 placers are generally the wider clearer plastic type and I don’t have as much luck with them. 7 placers are the whiter plastic and are thin like a 4 placer. One thing I that I do that may speed me up (though I’m not sure) is that I use my multiplacer end to place all my drills, 1 - 4. So I’m not spending time flipping my pen back and forth though I’m not really sure how much time that actually saves….😬
I did enjoy that. What system do you use for keeping all the drills straight? I only have one wip, Craftibly "Coastal Flight" going right now. I think it's great you can have 30 to work on at one time. What a variety of art. They were just beautiful to see and hear you describe each one. Thanks for sharing. 💙
I love Coastal Flight! How is it going? That one is on my wishlist currently. I have a variety of storage…. Harbor Freights, Craftmates Lockables, and those 56 grid squares primarily. I have each set labeled with which project they go to. My theory is that if I have open storage, I can kit up something new. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have as much storage. 😬
@@AngietheCraftnado ok I got it because I loved the image (I live on the coast of Massachusetts) and it's a pretty large canvas 20" x 24" and it's round drills because I haven't really mastered squares.. So I did the whole top of the painting about 6" down, the clouds are grey and green which looks kind of weird to me. Also believe it or not I am having a hard time keeping the drills straight and it's because they don't seem to be uniform in size from color to color and there's like 60 of them. But I refuse to give up on doing it. Honestly I would say not to buy it. And I'm a bit nervous because I bought another one that Mindy unboxed with a Lighthouse and when she did the video on that one, she thought it was very strange that the clouds had green ABS in them and she was going to check on it. I really love this company but perhaps this painting's rendering? (is that what it's called?) is not that good. I've never had a round painting that I couldn't get the drills to line up so it's making it a little less enjoyable than I thought it would be but I'll keep at it. 🤷♀️
@@dianalovescolors Weird! It definitely doesn’t sound right. I saw Mindys unboxing on that one with the green ABs in the clouds too and wondered how that ended up. Have you thought about contacting them? I don’t think it would hurt. I have never had that problem from them, but then I haven’t actually worked on a round kit from the new version releases yet. I’ve started Frogs and Kisses, but that’s a square and things are lining up properly and the colors seem normal. Maybe the renderings or charting are off in some way…… i think maybe I’d send them a picture and see what they say. They are usually very good with customer service. That sucks that you aren’t thrilled with it. Now I’m nervous. I might go take a closer look at my round kits and see if i notice anything off, but its hard to tell about drill sizes and spacing until you actual start laying down drills isn’t it?
@@AngietheCraftnado I know I could write to them and explain what's happening with this. I think I know what they were going for in the picture with the cloud colors. I think the sun is setting over the water and casting a reflection back up into the clouds. But I think the picture would have looked better with the reflections having some pink, red, or orange hues cast onto the clouds. Not Grey and green. I'm going to have to hang it up on the wall and step back to see how it looks. That whole part at the top is finished. Still I'm having issues the issues with the drills though. 😳 I recently learned to multi-place using a 4 placer (I had always been a one drill at a time girl) so I thought it was me that they are crooked but I just finished a very large painting from DAC doing it and I had no issues with crooked lines of drills. Even straightening them after with the straighten placer isn't helping that much. I know Craftibly is a really good company with wonderful people that own it and work there. I could write to them and tell them the issues but I don't think there's anything they could do about it. When they produce one of these paintings does someone from their factory actually sit down and kit up and do the diamond painting to see how it looks? I have no clue about the manufacturing side of how the company works. I know in one of your videos you talked about going on a road trip there to help ship out orders recently. We're you able to see how the images were made in the factory? Or is that done somewhere else? It would be so interesting to see all of that wouldn't it? Well anyway thank you for your suggestions and feedback I really appreciate it. I'll keep you posted. I also have two kits (one is that lighthouse by the same artist I think). They are both round so I'm going to unbox them today and check them out. I think I might take a break and work on a couple of specials today in my stash for #smashing the specials. I'm not on Instagram or Facebook but Mindy was kind enough to let us email her pictures for a couple of us that don't use those social medias. Thanks again hon.
@@dianalovescolors I completely understand where you’re coming from. I too have a couple of diamond paintings where I question the color choices in certain areas. My favorite is actually Sweet Life by Chuck Pinson. I have it in my living room and I love the painting. But I hate the deep purple that’s in the sky. I think that the hue is just a little off considering the feel of the rest of the piece. Yes, I did go down to Craftibly and help out with the large pre-order delivery. It was very interesting. The kits are not actually manufactured in the US, they come from China. From what I was told, there are not any factories in the US that manufacture diamond paintings. There is one in Canada, the Purple Razzberry. I do know that Craftibly images are hand charted, just like DAC’s are, rather than computer charted like most other diamond paintings. I think that sometimes that’s a good thing, but sometimes I think it leaves too much of the art up to interpretation. Like with Sweet Life. And no, they don’t work up any of the kits before they send them out, but I think that would be a great idea if they did. I hope that it all works out for you in the end. Yes, keep me posted….I’d like to hear how it all turns out. No you go smash those specials!!!! It’s killing me to see everyone’s projects! I made this stupid no start rule for August so all of those special drill kits that I had been saving up for this event are sitting in the drawer 🥲. Mindy is awesome, isn’t she? I love her! Have fun with the event!
Wow! I loved this. My question is what do you have 30 projects kitted up in?! I was thinking you must do a lot of baggies but then you said you hate working out of baggies.
Yeah, I hate baggies. I have 8 craftmayes lockable, about 10 harbor freights and the rest are in 56 grid storage containers. Those are my favorite. I’ll link them.
I completely finished 2 big ones. Alice and Snow White and Maleficent. Maleficent was a huge finish because at the start of the month I only had 1 1/2 sections done. I got a lot of good progress in on many more.
Some are gifts. Some will be framed and hung. And some….. well, some are just for fun and will probably just go into the giant portfolio type thing I made with poster board and stored under my bed. I have a craft room and my husband makes frames for me, so I plan on switching the paintings out in my craft room every so often. Hopefully, they will all someday have their time on the wall. 😀
When I am finished with a project, yes, I kit down into permanent storage. I have two large boxes with dividers. One for rounds, one for squares and special shapes.
I can only do one at a time that would drive me crazy with that many not done I would be losing my drills to them....but September 1 I'll have two going for the first time...both rounds.
Keeping all of my storage straight is definitely becoming an issue. I’d say I am at the absolute maximum that I can reasonably handle. Luckily, I have been working hard and will have a few finished by the end of the month.
I am so sorry that I somehow missed your comment. I have tried a few things to seal and the one I like the most is Tombow Aqua Glue. I also like Krylon Triple Thick Glaze because it comes in an aerosol spray and it easy to use and doesn’t stiffen your canvas or take away the sparkle. I don’t like Mod Podge. It takes away the sparkle in my opinion. Hope that helps., And sorry again for the late response.
Thank you! And yeah, after I posted this video I thought to myself “what about all of your WIPs of other projects (miniatures, crochet, cross stitch, punch needle….)”? 😬 But I do love switching things up all day every day.
I’m having so much fun working on something different every day. I am finding though that there are some that I moved away from for a reason…. A few may end up as abandoned projects and I don’t do that easily.
I don’t know! I ask myself that question all the time! Sometimes it’s because I get a new one and I can’t resist. Sometimes it’s for an event. Sometimes it’s because I received something from a company I haven’t worked with yet and I want to be able to give a review on what it’s like to actually work on the painting rather than just unbox it. The real reason would probably take a whole lot of therapy to get to the bottom of! Lol.
I know!!! What happens is that when I get to the middles, I can no longer reach to work on them from my lap desk in my recliner and have to move to the table in my craft room and that just isn’t as comfortable so they get ignored. But I am loving giving a different one some love every day and will definitely have at least a few finished by the end of the month.
This video is everything 💕. Learned that I don't need to cover my entire canvas with release paper and that I'm not alone with not liking AB drills.
You don’t like AB’s either? So glad to hear I’m not the only one out there. I’m glad you liked the video, thanks for watching!
My husband bought me a blueprint file hanger to hold my paintings. That would definitely come in handy for you! Loved seeing your WIPS!
That is an excellent idea!!! And would definitely be helpful as I am constantly shuffling through canvases on my drafting table. It has become a place to store WIPs instead of a workspace and I’d like to reclaim it for its intended purpose. I am going to look into that, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing this video! I can only do one DP kit at a time!! You are good with the WIPs!
I wish I could do that! I just need the variety, but its tough doing so many at a time because I don’t see very quick results. I do get a lot of finishes though, even doing it this way. I’m having fun changing it up every day.
Wow you must have a ton of storage containers. Lol🙂. I an so compulsive I hate not finishing one. I even have to de-kit before I start another. I loved watching all your WIPs and look forward to seeing the ones you finish. Good luck.
One large one finished so far! Yay! And yes, I do have tons of storage. Too much, obviously! 🤣😂 I wish I had more self control and could resist new starts, but willpower is NOT one of my strong suits. Lol.
Wow this was beautiful to see, thank you for sharing.
You must have a lot of storage units. Enjoy your paintings and I hope you get a few complete. Take care 😁💖
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. And yes, I have tons and tons of storage. Too much! I did mange to finish 3 large ones…. And got a good deal further with many others. But I also realized there were a few that I just hated and this project gave me the push I needed to just admit defeat and abandon them for good. I need to go on a no start about every other month to get all of the rest of these done!
It’s terrible when they don’t turn out. Enjoy finishing the others. Just wondering have you done any more miniature house. Take care 😁💖
Love love love this video! Really enjoyed seeing how much you have done on each painting. It’ll be so much fun working on a different painting each day.
It is going really well so far. I am thoroughly enjoying working on a new one every day. There are a few that I now remember why they got set aside and are almost painful to work on, but then there are others that I am enjoying so much that I want to keep working on them for more than a day. But I’m staying vigilant. So far…..lol.
@@AngietheCraftnado Will you do another video to update us on how it went?
@@ValerieHollifield Things are going so well and I already have one finish, so yes, I think I will do another video at the beginning of September and see just how much I was able to make a dent in this mess.
What a great idea for a video! I hope we get as many days of WIPnCHATS! I’m too new (meaning scared) to do more than one project at a time. Maybe someday.
Whoa, that would be a lloooottttt of chatting. I wonder if I could have that much to say! Lol! I am really enjoying the variety of a new project every day, but some of them I just want to keep working on. One big finish so far, so that’s some progress.
It's taken me a handful of days to finish watching this video because I wanted to pay attention while watching. I often DP while watching videos but not with this. I really enjoyed this video. It was a fantastic idea for a video and OMG there are so many. But you did sum it up perfectly at the end by saying their yours, you paid for them so you can do what you want with them. As long as they eventually get finished & if they bring you so much joy then what the heck. I have 3 DP's on the go but 2 are little guys. Usually I only do one at a time. But it takes willpower not to begin an new one,I get it. I am currently waiting for my second DIYmoonshop DP to arrive so hope it's the new canvas. That'd be cool. I think it should be going by when I ordered it. I gotta say I absolutely 💗 that DP you bought at the retreat from DP w Sparklers' w the colour blocked hair. I just love it. I h noave already emailed the company to try and buy it so hopefully that will make it happen..
Yeah, willpower is not one of my strong points. I have none, obviously. I’m glad you like the video and glad you found something that you are going to get. I worked on Colorful Lady for a couple of hours last night, and holy 310!!! There is so much black! But it is so striking against all the rhinestones and bright colors….I’m anxious to share my progress on that one. What did you order from DIYMoonshop? They are one of my favorite stores and I am itching to get something new from them but need to save up for it.
@@AngietheCraftnado I have bought 'Joy' by Lelani Joy, which is so my style but haven't started because I am still waiting for the special treatment for that kit to arrive. I bought the ST after I received the DP because I decided I really wanted to do it w those drills to jazz it up. That's the old style canvas. Also my very first DIYmoonshop. I am now waiting on 'Love Spell' by Lioba Bruckner. It should have arrived already buto I received an email from the company saying there was a printing error on a bunch of canvases including mine that wasn't up to standard so they needed to be re-printed. They gave me a 15% discount on my next order. I was ok with this because these things happen it's not like I don't have any other DP's to do to keep me busy hahaha. This should be in the new style I hope. It will be squares too. 'Joy' is in rounds so be good to do one of each. So technically I haven't yet had the chance to do a DIYmoonshop canvas just yet. The special treatment will be sent out w the second canvas so had to wait a while for them but again that's fine. As long as I get them it's all good.
@@elysabethpoodle6234 yeah I’d definitely be fine with a 15% discount if it meant I had to wait a little longer. You’re right, it’s not like we don’t have anything else to work on. I love both the old and new DIYMoonshop canvases that I have completed and I hope you will too. I haven’t gotten anything from Buckner but I do like it.
Wow!!! It is amazing that you have that many going. I’m having trouble keeping up with 3, I can’t imagine having 30. Very impressive 😁
Impressive or insane? 🤣😂🤣 3 is definitely a more manageable amount. I need to whip these WIPs!
Wow! I no longer feel bad about about having 3. You have so many beautiful pictures!
Thank you! Yeah, 3 is a much more manageable number. I am hoping to knock some of these out and get my number down. It has become a lot to deal with in terms of occupied storage containers. Ive finished one big one so far though!
What a great idea!!! I don’t have 30 but I do have a few! I might play along and change out daily!
You totally should! It has been so fun to change it up every day. I am loving some and wondering why they got set aside, but hating others and seriously considering abandoning them and reclaiming their storage for new projects in September. It’s only been 8 days and I am already itching to start something new. I really want to start that new Josephine Wall.
Hey girl, amazing video!!! Love all you WIPS!! Every day is a new step. I have 2 going.
One large, one MONSTER!!! I don't know when I'll start back on my monster canvas. My husband keeps asking me when I'm going to restart my large project in the basement 😒 I just keep giving him that look like why, is there something in the basement you need moved or want? I'll start back soon. I have so many I want to start and not enough time. I'll get there.
Have a wonderful day!! 2 more weeks and it's time for my Chef hat and knives. Summer travel and fun coming to a end.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure about posting it, but everyone seems to like it….. I am having so much fun working on something different every day. It’s hard to work on a project that’s in a different location than usual isn’t it? I like to work on my lap desk in the living room, but like you I have to work on bigger canvases someplace else. For me its the craft room and it just isn’t as comfortable in there, so larger projects don’t get as much love as they should. I’m hoping to knock a few of these out during this month. I hope you enjoy your last two weeks of summer before getting back to the grind. Happy vacationing!
I'm exactly the same, I want to start them as soon as they arrive so I've got a fair few on the go. The only thing that stops me starting more is a lack of storage!
Exactly! My theory is that if I have enough storage, I can kit up something new. But I need to stop buying more storage……lol.
Good lord that’s a whole lotta wips 😂
Getting stuck into one a day is a fab idea. I reckon you’ll knock off a few of those in that pile ☺️
One down so far!
@@AngietheCraftnado sweeeeeet!!!
Wow!!! I don’t know if I could ever have that many WIPs going at once! Most I’ve done are 2 at a time! 😅 But oh my! You have some gorgeous ones! Alice & Snow White and Into Wonderland are on my wishlist!!! 😍
I wish I could be more like you! I just have zero willpower and cannot resist sometimes when I get new things. I actually came really close already today to starting a new one, but I didn’t! I will remain vigilant! I already finished Alice and Snow White and it turned out so nice, I hope you are able to snag it! Today I worked on Maleficent and Colorful Lady and for tomorrow I think you’ve inspired me to choose Into Wonderland. I need a square after two days of rounds.
@@AngietheCraftnado Yay you had the willpower to resist today! Not that it would be a bad thing, but I know you really want to complete the ones you started. 😉 My willpower fails me when it comes to buying. I actually just started diamond painting this year and I’m already building up quite a little stash! 😅
@@AngietheCraftnado I’ve never done a square, but I have one on the way! Looking forward to trying it out and seeing how I feel about square drills. Also congrats on finishing Alice and Snow White! I can’t wait to see that one! I actually just followed your IG. I hope you’ll share your progress there! And yay for Into Wonderland! I love JoJoesArt! I just finished his Alice in Wonderland. Forgot to mention, I really like Maleficent too! You have good taste! 😅👍
@@Needle2Needle You have great taste too! I was having too much fun working on Maleficent, I couldn’t put her away. SO I spent two days on her. Today is Into Wonderland. I hope you like square drills. I was really nervous about it the first time I started working on one, but it really isn’t all that different. I really love the clicking sound the drills make when they snap into place. I think rounds will always be my favorite, but I definitely do a lot of both. I will keep you posted on my progress. I’m really bad with IG but I need to try to be more active there. I think I’m going to do a short video at the end of the month and show what I finish. Have a great day, and thanks!
@@AngietheCraftnado oh yay!!! I can’t wait to see your progress on Into Wonderland! And guess what??? I just ordered it! I couldn’t resist! It’s been on my wishlist ever since I first saw it! And I hope I like squares too, because I also just ordered Willa! 😅
I have 5 right now they are all going to be awesome when done, I love the train that is so cool and long
5 is definitely a more reasonable number. I would love it if I could get down to that number. And the train? Yep, that one is so cool. My granddaughters are going to love it!
So many WIP's!!! I would totally get overwhelmed with that many. I work 1 at a time, and currently am working on a project Im struggeling with. With this WIP i totally understand the need of starting another WIP. My biggest problem in life i have trouble finishing what I start, thats why I just keep going.
I am so sorry I somehow missed your comment. I completely admire your ability to stick to one! Sometimes I wish I could do that. Having so many going can get overwhelming. Thanks for watching!
💕💕💕🙂🙂LOVEd this video!!!
Thank you so much!
Great video! 💖👍
Thank you so much!
I wish I had that many to start, I have warm witch, summer storm from craftibly, a winter scene from spell queen and a small one from tinme arts.and they are large. Love your stash
You have good taste! I love the ones you mentioned. Especially Summer Storm, but that one is quite large isn’t it? Thanks for watching!
Wow! That's a lot of WIPs for sure. How do you get to do comfortably the middle of a large diamond painting that's around 70 x 92 cm, please?
Well, the short answer to that is… I don’t. Not comfortably. I absolutely hate doing middles. That’s possibly why I have so many incomplete diamond paintings. Lol. But when I do get to those areas, I usually let the completed portion hang off the edge of the table in front of me. It will appear to “crease” or bend the canvas while you’re working on it, but it will go right back into shape after you return it to a flat position. I also have recently found that if I put release papers under my arms while I am leaning on the already drilled areas that it helps to keep already placed drills from coming up on my arms.
I loved this video!! How on earth do you finish so many diamond paintings?? Secondly, where on earth do you keep 30 storage container systems?? You are definitely a "BOSS"!! I'm recently subscribed and I look forward to watching more of your videos! Any advice on working so fast (and I do multi place, but usually with a four placer, but I think I might be ready to go to a 6... What do you think??)? Thanks so much 😊
Welcome! I’m so happy to have you here! I am lucky enough to have a craft room, so I keep half of my storage containers labeled and piled in there and the other half on the table next to my recliner in the living room where I have a little workstation set up. It’s getting overwhelming hence taking this month to “catch up”. I decided to do a little update at the end of the month and show what I actually got done and I’m going to show all my storage as well. There’s a lot. Lol. I don’t know that I’m a particularly fast diamond painter, but I do have a lot of time every day to devote to it. As far as multiplacers go, I have to say that I am most comfortable with the 4 placer myself. Any bigger and it seems like the drills get too “bunched up” and don’t go evenly into the spaces on the canvas. If I have a TON of color blocking (like Nightbringer from Diamond Art Club), I will use a 7 placer. I would say give a 7 a try. 6 placers are generally the wider clearer plastic type and I don’t have as much luck with them. 7 placers are the whiter plastic and are thin like a 4 placer. One thing I that I do that may speed me up (though I’m not sure) is that I use my multiplacer end to place all my drills, 1 - 4. So I’m not spending time flipping my pen back and forth though I’m not really sure how much time that actually saves….😬
I did enjoy that. What system do you use for keeping all the drills straight? I only have one wip, Craftibly "Coastal Flight" going right now. I think it's great you can have 30 to work on at one time. What a variety of art. They were just beautiful to see and hear you describe each one. Thanks for sharing. 💙
I love Coastal Flight! How is it going? That one is on my wishlist currently. I have a variety of storage…. Harbor Freights, Craftmates Lockables, and those 56 grid squares primarily. I have each set labeled with which project they go to. My theory is that if I have open storage, I can kit up something new. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have as much storage. 😬
@@AngietheCraftnado ok I got it because I loved the image (I live on the coast of Massachusetts) and it's a pretty large canvas 20" x 24" and it's round drills because I haven't really mastered squares.. So I did the whole top of the painting about 6" down, the clouds are grey and green which looks kind of weird to me. Also believe it or not I am having a hard time keeping the drills straight and it's because they don't seem to be uniform in size from color to color and there's like 60 of them. But I refuse to give up on doing it. Honestly I would say not to buy it. And I'm a bit nervous because I bought another one that Mindy unboxed with a Lighthouse and when she did the video on that one, she thought it was very strange that the clouds had green ABS in them and she was going to check on it. I really love this company but perhaps this painting's rendering? (is that what it's called?) is not that good. I've never had a round painting that I couldn't get the drills to line up so it's making it a little less enjoyable than I thought it would be but I'll keep at it. 🤷♀️
@@dianalovescolors Weird! It definitely doesn’t sound right. I saw Mindys unboxing on that one with the green ABs in the clouds too and wondered how that ended up. Have you thought about contacting them? I don’t think it would hurt. I have never had that problem from them, but then I haven’t actually worked on a round kit from the new version releases yet. I’ve started Frogs and Kisses, but that’s a square and things are lining up properly and the colors seem normal. Maybe the renderings or charting are off in some way…… i think maybe I’d send them a picture and see what they say. They are usually very good with customer service. That sucks that you aren’t thrilled with it. Now I’m nervous. I might go take a closer look at my round kits and see if i notice anything off, but its hard to tell about drill sizes and spacing until you actual start laying down drills isn’t it?
@@AngietheCraftnado I know I could write to them and explain what's happening with this. I think I know what they were going for in the picture with the cloud colors. I think the sun is setting over the water and casting a reflection back up into the clouds. But I think the picture would have looked better with the reflections having some pink, red, or orange hues cast onto the clouds. Not Grey and green. I'm going to have to hang it up on the wall and step back to see how it looks. That whole part at the top is finished. Still I'm having issues the issues with the drills though. 😳 I recently learned to multi-place using a 4 placer (I had always been a one drill at a time girl) so I thought it was me that they are crooked but I just finished a very large painting from DAC doing it and I had no issues with crooked lines of drills. Even straightening them after with the straighten placer isn't helping that much. I know Craftibly is a really good company with wonderful people that own it and work there. I could write to them and tell them the issues but I don't think there's anything they could do about it. When they produce one of these paintings does someone from their factory actually sit down and kit up and do the diamond painting to see how it looks? I have no clue about the manufacturing side of how the company works. I know in one of your videos you talked about going on a road trip there to help ship out orders recently. We're you able to see how the images were made in the factory? Or is that done somewhere else? It would be so interesting to see all of that wouldn't it? Well anyway thank you for your suggestions and feedback I really appreciate it. I'll keep you posted. I also have two kits (one is that lighthouse by the same artist I think). They are both round so I'm going to unbox them today and check them out. I think I might take a break and work on a couple of specials today in my stash for #smashing the specials. I'm not on Instagram or Facebook but Mindy was kind enough to let us email her pictures for a couple of us that don't use those social medias. Thanks again hon.
@@dianalovescolors I completely understand where you’re coming from. I too have a couple of diamond paintings where I question the color choices in certain areas. My favorite is actually Sweet Life by Chuck Pinson. I have it in my living room and I love the painting. But I hate the deep purple that’s in the sky. I think that the hue is just a little off considering the feel of the rest of the piece. Yes, I did go down to Craftibly and help out with the large pre-order delivery. It was very interesting. The kits are not actually manufactured in the US, they come from China. From what I was told, there are not any factories in the US that manufacture diamond paintings. There is one in Canada, the Purple Razzberry. I do know that Craftibly images are hand charted, just like DAC’s are, rather than computer charted like most other diamond paintings. I think that sometimes that’s a good thing, but sometimes I think it leaves too much of the art up to interpretation. Like with Sweet Life. And no, they don’t work up any of the kits before they send them out, but I think that would be a great idea if they did. I hope that it all works out for you in the end. Yes, keep me posted….I’d like to hear how it all turns out. No you go smash those specials!!!! It’s killing me to see everyone’s projects! I made this stupid no start rule for August so all of those special drill kits that I had been saving up for this event are sitting in the drawer 🥲. Mindy is awesome, isn’t she? I love her! Have fun with the event!
Wow! I loved this. My question is what do you have 30 projects kitted up in?! I was thinking you must do a lot of baggies but then you said you hate working out of baggies.
Yeah, I hate baggies. I have 8 craftmayes lockable, about 10 harbor freights and the rest are in 56 grid storage containers. Those are my favorite. I’ll link them.
@@AngietheCraftnado Wow! I love my harbor freights! I have 6.
I want that skull on top!
So now that August is over, how many of the 30 did you complete?
I completely finished 2 big ones. Alice and Snow White and Maleficent. Maleficent was a huge finish because at the start of the month I only had 1 1/2 sections done. I got a lot of good progress in on many more.
Hi! What will you be doing with them once they are finished? Do you frame them? Especially the larger canvases?
Some are gifts. Some will be framed and hung. And some….. well, some are just for fun and will probably just go into the giant portfolio type thing I made with poster board and stored under my bed. I have a craft room and my husband makes frames for me, so I plan on switching the paintings out in my craft room every so often. Hopefully, they will all someday have their time on the wall. 😀
Do you kit down into a storage system? I can't imagine having that many wip. Lol. I have 2 wip and more kitted up to start.
When I am finished with a project, yes, I kit down into permanent storage. I have two large boxes with dividers. One for rounds, one for squares and special shapes.
Wow, I wish I could do more than 1 wip at a time but I just can't do it xxx
I wish I had more self control (and less storage)! 🤣🤣
I can only do one at a time that would drive me crazy with that many not done I would be losing my drills to them....but September 1 I'll have two going for the first time...both rounds.
Keeping all of my storage straight is definitely becoming an issue. I’d say I am at the absolute maximum that I can reasonably handle. Luckily, I have been working hard and will have a few finished by the end of the month.
What do you use to seal the diamond paintings?
I am so sorry that I somehow missed your comment. I have tried a few things to seal and the one I like the most is Tombow Aqua Glue. I also like Krylon Triple Thick Glaze because it comes in an aerosol spray and it easy to use and doesn’t stiffen your canvas or take away the sparkle. I don’t like Mod Podge. It takes away the sparkle in my opinion. Hope that helps., And sorry again for the late response.
I only have 1 which is the one I'm currently working on.
Oh dear Angie that's a lot of wips. It lookslike you love to start them but not finish. I don't like full crystal paintings either xx
Yup..ive done luna..bling the round things..i didnt know anything about putting extra bling at that time..
You have great taste! Personally, I have about 3 diamond painting WIPS, but don’t ask me about my cross stitch and beading WIPS! 😩 🌺🌺🇨🇦
Thank you! And yeah, after I posted this video I thought to myself “what about all of your WIPs of other projects (miniatures, crochet, cross stitch, punch needle….)”? 😬 But I do love switching things up all day every day.
Girl....you have just a few wips...lol. good luck.
I’m having so much fun working on something different every day. I am finding though that there are some that I moved away from for a reason…. A few may end up as abandoned projects and I don’t do that easily.
Why do you start so many?
I don’t know! I ask myself that question all the time! Sometimes it’s because I get a new one and I can’t resist. Sometimes it’s for an event. Sometimes it’s because I received something from a company I haven’t worked with yet and I want to be able to give a review on what it’s like to actually work on the painting rather than just unbox it. The real reason would probably take a whole lot of therapy to get to the bottom of! Lol.
Surprised you stopped working on so many that were almost finished..
I know!!! What happens is that when I get to the middles, I can no longer reach to work on them from my lap desk in my recliner and have to move to the table in my craft room and that just isn’t as comfortable so they get ignored. But I am loving giving a different one some love every day and will definitely have at least a few finished by the end of the month.
This is exactly how dont want to end up. Lol.
It’s scary isn’t it? And it’s even worse now!
Well a lot to do but it’s time to get them finished
Yes it is! I am being very diligent and already have one big finish. It’s going well so far.