The nice people at Coodeals.com offered to make me a diamond painting in the image I chose. I chose Finn (my great nephew) and they sent me this diamond painting in 50 x 50 mm size.

Coodeals.com Custom diamond painting round drills 50 x 50 http://tinyurl.com/2hwe6hkf

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It took me a long time to finish the painting since I was out of commission for a lot of the summer, and in the end it turned out really cute.

Here’s the easiest way to frame it once you find a frame that is larger for the diamond painting either top to bottom or side to side. Let’s say your image (not the white area of the diamond painting) is 1″ smaller on both the top and bottom of your frame. That means your sides will also need to be 1″ narrower on each side than your frame. You’ll want to figure out how wide your frame opening is from side to side, and how wide your painting is from side to side. Whatever your frame opening is from side to side, you’ll need to subtract 2″ from that size and then using a ruler on your diamond painting, measure from the center of the picture, that amount. Mine was 13 1/2″, so I measured that much and put a small piece of washi tape at the beginning and end point of the 13 1/2″. If you don’t like where it lands on your image (maybe it shows more of one shoulder than the other), you can always move your tape as long as it’s still 13 1/2″ across. Then run washi tape from the top to the bottom of your painting on a straight line directly on the diamond painting (not on the plastic covering) and make sure the washi tape is directly beside a row of diamonds, to ensure you don’t cover past these areas with diamonds.

If I had done the entire painting of Finn, it would have not only covered the white area, but it would also have excess that would run past the sides of the frame. Doing this my way will save you a lot of time and make your paintings fit in any US sized frame.

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