We’ll try to show you the similarities and differences between the two and how to get started with the hobby. So right away there is a difference - a Diamond Painting is never going to be as high a resolution as a cross-stitch piece can be.

Our kits undergo our extensive quality testing, so that the product delivered to your home is perfect and ready to be started for your enjoyment. then you could simply print ‘as if it was a cross stitch chart’ and work from that visually, symbol by symbol, but you need to ensure the size is correct.

It is good to know that we now offer premium and officially licensed cross stitch kits, puzzles made in France as well as Pixel hobby kits to bring a new magical and creative vision to your hobby. To enjoy all that Hobbycraft has to offer, please enable cookies or check whether another programme is blocking them. Through the artistic creation of our wonderful artists, we offer you to discover the magical world of Oraloa where creativity is limitless, we will take you on a journey through several universes so that you find the theme that will make your eyes shine. And some provide printed charts identical to cross stitch charts, leaving you to apply the diamonds to a substrate of your own choosing. Oraloa Diamond Painting Kits, are a relaxing, soothing and rewarding way to create your own artwork!

We aren’t currently aware of anyone that has adhesive cloth you can print on, or a service for that. Diamond painting is a relatively new technique for creating beautiful finished work, based upon using plastic beads or crystals instead of stitched crosses. Simply place the diamonds on the corresponding symbol and, little by little, watch your artwork come to life!Using intricate diamond beads that you can place within each artwork to bring designs to life, discover the fantastic, relaxing new technique of diamond painting. It’s important not to peel back too much at once - you don’t want to risk exposing a large area until you are ready to work on it in case you accidentally stick a piece of paper to it for instance.

Square drills are easier to align and should ‘snap’ into place and they also give a better solid coverage finish so would be the drill of choice if you are using a blank canvas using a chart rather than pre-printed charts as there are no gaps between drills with square ones. You will often see DP kits described as 3D or 5D painting, a lot of people say they can’t really tell the difference and the terms now seem to be used interchangeably to describe the craft more to give the impression of dimension. We have taken every measure to ensure that our diamond painting kits are of the highest quality, while remaining affordable.One tip while working is to start at the top of the piece - that way the completed area scrolls off the top of the table as you progress rather than coming forward into your lap. This is a higher resolution version of the image so produces a finer detail than diamond painting can for the equivalent size.

Pre-printed is obviously easier as you just have to position the tiles onto the right symbols but blank canvases are pre-divided into 10x10 grids which make using a pattern relatively straightforward.

Here are some images comparing cross stitching to diamond painting, both of these were charted with the thread-bare app. LoveCrafts Group Limited (or its affiliates, including LoveCrafts Makers Limited) 2023, registered in England and Wales (no. Diamond painting is the process of developing a mosaic to re-create an image using tiny faceted “diamonds”, also known as drills by attaching them to a sticky canvas. From the images above you can see that the diamond painting has a higher sheen due to the faceted drills and the colors seem very vivid and the coverage is denser than stitching which has a more delicate finish. It is important to realise that the size ONSCREEN bears no relation to the size of the symbols you print.